MACKUBIN, Florence, American artist: b. Florence, Italy, 19 May 1861. She was of American parentage, and studied under Louis Deschamps and Julius Rolshoven in Paris and Herterrich in Munich, also studying miniature painting under Mlle. J. Devina in Paris. Since completing her studies she has lived chiefly at Baltimore, Md. She has specialized in portrait and miniature paint ing, and her work was exhibited at the Colum bian Exposition, 1893; the Tennessee Exposi tion in 1897; at Paris, 1900; at Buffalo, 1901; Charleston, 1902, and Saint Louis, 1904. She was officially commissioned to execute various portraits for the Executive Mansion and State House, Maryland, among them a copy of Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, and portraits of Governors Calvert and Eden of Maryland. Among other portraits are those of Sir Charles Drury at the Admiralty House, Chatham, England, and Sir William Van Horne, Canada. Her miniatures won a medal at the
Tennessee Exposition. Among them is one of Cardinal Gibbons.
McLACHLAN, Alexander, Scottish Canadian poet: b. Johnstone, Renfrew shire, Scotland, 12 Aug. 1818; d. Orangeville, Ontario, 20 March 1896. He removed to Can ada in 1841; was Canadian immigration agent to Scotland in 1862, and in 1874 delivered in Scotland a series of lectures on Canadian life. He lectured also in Canada and the United States. He was a man of broad and demo cratic sympathies and was deeply interested in the betterment of conditions among the work ing classes. Author of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' (1855) ; 'Lyrics) (1858) ; 'The Emigrant and Other Poems' (1861) ; 'Poems and Songs' (1874).