REEKS, Ireland, a pictures'que mountain range, in County Kerry, extending for 13% miles from the lakes of Killarney on the east to Lough Carra on the west, and covering an area of 28 square miles. It is the loftiest mann taro range in Ireland, culminating in Carmn tuohill, 3,414 feet high.
McGILLIVRAY, Alexander, chief of the Creek Indians: b. in Alabama about 1740; d. Pensacola, Fla., 17 Feb. 1793. His father was a Scottish merchant of good fam ily and his mother a half-breed. He received a good education at Charleston, S. C.; was placed in a mercantile establishment in Savan nah; but soon returned to the Creek country, where he became partner in a large trading house and rose to a high position• among the Indians. After the death of his mother, a mem ber of the ruling stock, he became chief of the Creeks, having received a call from a formal council, and styled himself Emperor of the Creek Nation. During the Revolution the Mc Gillivrays, father and son, were zealous adher ents of the royal cause, the former holding the rank of a colonel in the British service. After the war Alexander McGillivray, in behalf of the Creek confederacy, entered into an alli ance with Spain, of which government he was made a commissary, with the rank and pay of colonel. In 1790 he was induced by President Washington to visit New York, where he eventually signed a treaty yielding certain dis puted lands lying on the Oconee. He was also persuaded to withdraw from Spanish service and was rewarded with an appointment as agent for the United States, with the rank and pay of brigadier-general.
McGILVARY, Evander Bradley, Amer ican linguist and philosopher: b. Bangkok, Siam, 19 July 1864, of American parents. He was graduated from Davidson College in 1884 and from Princeton in 1888. He was appointed as instructor in the classics at Bingham School in 1884, and in 1889-90 studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1891 to 1894 he was translator for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Siam, and in 1894 began graduate work at the University of California, where he later became assistant professor. In 1899 he was appointed Sage professor of ethics at Cornell. In 1905 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. In 1910.-11 he was president of the Western Philosophical Association and in 1912-13 of the American Philosophical Association. He
has translated the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and John, and the Acts of the Apostles into the Lao dialect of Siamese. Has contributed to various philosophical journals and to encyclo predias.
McGLYNN, ma-glin', Edward, American Roman Catholic clergyman: b. New York, 27 Sept. 1837; d. Newburg, N. Y., 7 Jan. 1900. He was educated at the College of the Propaganda in Rome, and from 1866 was pastor of Saint Stephen's Church in New York. He favored the education of children by the State rather than in parochial schools and in 1886 warmly supported the candidacy of Henry George for the mayoralty, thereby bringing upon himself the censure of the Church. He was summoned to Rome to exculpate himself, but refused to go, pleading his ill-health. Persisting in his re fusal he was excommunicated in 1887. He was one of the founders of the Anti-Poverty So ciety and was its president. In 1893, after a hearing before the Pope's delegate. Monsignor Satolli, the ban of excommunication was re moved, after signing a document drawn up by the apostolic delegate to the effect that his eco nomic views were not in conflict with the Cath olic faith. He was in charge of Saint Mary's parish in Newburg at his death.
McGOVERN, ma-gov'ern, John, American author: b. Troy, N. Y., 18 Feb. 1850. He was connected for 16 years with the Chicago Trib une, and since 1880 has been engaged in liter ary work and lecturing, chiefly on great writers and historical characters. In the action of S. E. Gross, author of the play The Merchant Prince of Cornville,' against Edmond Rostrand, au thor of 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' he acted as lit erary expert for the former, furnishing in the case over 700 exhibits containing innumerable parallels between the two dramas. The United States Court at Chicago issued a decree in 1902 sustaining the Haim of Gross to priority of au thorship and forbidding the representation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac) in this country. Mc Govern's numerous writings include Ern• Aire of Information' (1880); Pastoral Poem) (1882) ; 'The Toiler's Diadem' (1885) ; 'Under the Open Sky) (1890) ; 'King Dar win,) a novel (1894) ; 'American Statesmen> (1898) ; 'Famous Women of the (1898) • 'John McGovern's Poems) (1902); (The Golden Legacy' ; of Grain) (1913) ; 'Trees' psychologically considered; (Hospitality); 'In Bohemia,' etc.