McDANIEL, Walton Brooks, American philologist and educator: b. Cambridge, Mass., 4 March 1871. He was graduated at Harvard in 1893. He was assistant in Latin and Greek at Harvard in 1896-97, instructor there and at Radcliffe College in 1899-1901, and from 1909 was professor of Latin at the University of Pennsylvania. He is associate editor of Classi cal Weekly, and author of numerous magazine articles on philological subjects.
McDONALD, Andrew Archibald, nadian statesman: b. Three Rivers, Prince Edward Island, 14 Feb. 1829; d. 21 March 1912. He entered public life in 1853 as member of the Island assembly, serving until 1858, and again in 1863-74. He was a delegate to the Quebec Conference on the Union of the Provinces in 1864; and in 1873 became pro vincial postmaster-general, also serving as act ing post-office inspector until 1884. In 1884 89 he was lieutenant-governor of the province, and from 1891 he was a member of the Dominion Senate.
McDONALD, Arthur, American crim inologist and author : b. Caledonia, N. Y., 4 July 1856. He was educated at the University of Rochester, the Princeton and Union Theolog ical seminaries, and later studied medicine at Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Zurich and Vienna. He was connected with the United States Bureau of Education in 1892-1904 as a specialist in possibilities of education for the abnormal and weakling classes. He represented the United States at three International Psychological and Criminalogical Congresses, and was honorary president of the Congress of Criminal Anthro pology in Europe. He made a special study of American and European prisons and asylums for the insane and for inebriates, and of slums for the United States Bureau of Education. Author of
MacDONALD, Charles, American civil engineer and bridge-builder: b. Gananoque, Ontario, Canada, 26 Jan. 1837. He studied at the preparatory school at Queen's University. Kingston, engaged in surveying on the Grand Trunk Railway and later entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1857. He returned to railroad
work after graduation and upon the completion of the Grand Trunk Railway's extension from Sarnia, Ontario, to Detroit, Mich., in 1863, he was engaged by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. He was for a short time engaged with the Union army on the threatened invasion of Pennsylvania, and was taken prisoner; but was held for only a brief • period. In 1868 he definitely turned his attention to bridge building, forming a partnership with A. B. Bur ton. The firm constructed the bridges between Hoboken and Dover, N. J., on the Boonton branch of the Delaware and Lackawanna Rail road, and in 1872 MacDonald designed and con structed Point Bridge at Providence, R. I., which has a 250-foot draw span. He was senior partner of the Union Bridge Company which constructed the Hawksburg Bridge, Australia; the Leavenworth Bridge, Kansas; the Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson ; and the Merchant's Bridge, Saint Louis. He is a trustee of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1908-09 he was president of the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers.
MacDONALD, Duncan Black, American philologist: b. Glasgow, Scotland, 9 April 1863. He was graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1885 and later studied at the University of Berlin. He came to the United States in 1892 and has since been professor of Semitic lan guages at the Hartford Theological Seminary. He was Haskell lecturer on comparative reli gion at the University of Chicago in 1906; spe cial lecturer at Wellesley College in 1907, 1909, and at the Episcopal Theological School, Cam bridge, in 1912. He is head of the Mohamme dan department at the Kennedy School of Mis sions, Hartford, and in 1914 was Haskell lec turer at Oberlin College. He was lecturer at the O. T. Berkeley Divinity School in 1917-18. He discovered in the Bodleian Library the only known Oriental manuscript of