IVIeCLURG, CALDWELL ( 1S35 1901). An American publisher, born in Phila delphia. He graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853, and became associated with the publishing firm of S. C. Griggs & Co. at. Chicago. In 1862 he entered the Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was made a colonel and brevet brigadier general, and served through the Atlanta campaign and Sherman's march to the sea as chief of staff of the Fourteenth Army Corps. After the war he became a partner in the Griggs publishing house, and after a few years organized the firm of Jan sen. McClurg & Co., later A. C. McClurg & which became one of the most prosperous publish ing houses in America. 1899. after the de struction of the establishment by tire. he re organized the company on the basis of industrial coi1peration, distributed much of the stock to the employees, and permitted them to buy more on easy terms.
MeCLY'MONT, DAMES A LEX.% NDER 1 S ) An English biblical scholar. born at (;irvan, Ayrshire. and educated at (Silvan Grammar School. at Ayr Academy. Edinbur:di University. and In 1874 he became minister of llolburn Parish, Aberdeen. and he served as a member of the general committee of the Cluireh of Scotland. He was one of the translators of Beek's Pastoral Thro/ogy of the Yew Testament and wrote: The Sew Testament and Its Writers (1892) ; a volume in the Century Bible on Saint John's Gospel; and The Church of Scotland (1893).
MacCOLL', EVAN (1808-98). A Canadian Gaelic poet, born at Kenmore, Scotland. His principal Mark, ('lac ash nam Reann: or Poems and .bungs in Gaelic (1S38) • was printed in Eng lish the same year under the title The Mountain Ninstrel, of which five subsequent editions ap peared. Mae Coll went to C'anada in 1850, and was employed in the custom house at Kingston, Ontario, for thirty years. In 1880 he retired and went to live in Toronto, where a complete edition of his works was published in 1883. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada from its inauguration.
MacCOLL, MALeotm (1838— ) , A theologian and author, born Nareh 27, 183S. at Glentinan, in Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenahnond. and at the Uni versity of Naples. He was appointed assistant curate of Saint Paul's, Knightsbridge (1861) ; chaplain to the British Ambassador at Saint Petersburg (1862-63) ; curate of Saint Paul's (1864-67) ; rector of Saint George's. London (1371) ; and canon of Ripon Cathedral (1884). In 1875 he attended the conference of the East ern and NVestern Churches at Bonn. his publications are: Mr. Gladstone and Orford (1865) ; xcicace and Prayer (1866) ; Lawless ness, Nacerdolalism, and Ritualism (1875) ; Christianity in Relation to Science and Morals (1892); Responsibility of England Toward Ar menia (1895) ; The Sultan and the Powers (1896); and Life Here and hereafter (1896).
McCOMB, m'-kom'. A town in Pike County, Miss., about 60 miles east by south of Natchez; on the Illinois Central Railroad (Map: Missis sippi, E 8). The McComb City Female Institute, opened in 1894, is situated here. McComb is in a productive cotton-growing region, and has cot ton mills, and the largest and most completely equipped railroad shops in the State. There aro
public parks. The water-works are owned by the municipality. Population, in 1890, 2383; in 1900, 4477.
MeCON'NELSVILLE. A village and the county-seat of Morgan County, Ohio, 27 miles south by east of Zanesville; on the Muskingum River. and on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Map: Ohio, G 6). It is the centre of a farm ing region, and among its industrial plants are flouring mills and the Government workshops and yards for the :Muskingum River Improve ment. Natural gas is found in the vicinity, also coal, the county being one of the greatest coal producing areas in the State. Population, in 1890, 1771; in 1900, 1825.
McCOOK'. A city and the eounty-seat of Red Willow County, Neb.. 228 miles west by south of Lincoln ; on the Republican River and on the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (Burlington Route) (Map: Nebraska. D 3). It is a railroad division headquarters with shops. and is the centre of a seetion interested largely in the cultivation of sugar beets and alfalfa, and in cattle-raising. Population, in 1890, 2346: in 1900, 2445.
rileCO OK, ALEXANDER McDowell, ( 1831-1903 ) . An American soldier, prominent in the Civil War. He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, grad uated at West Point in 1852, was employed for a time in garrison duty, served against the Utah and Apache Indians in 1855, and from 1858 to 1861 was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point. In the last named year he was appointed colonel of a volunteer regiment, and in this capacity served in the first battle of Bull Rum earning the brevet of major. Ile was pro moted to be brigadier-general of volunteers on September 3d, commanded a brigade in the opera tions in Kentucky, October-December, 1861, and a division in the Army of the Ohio in the Tennes see and Mississippi campaign, February and June. 1862. and became a major-general of volun teers ou July 16, 1862. Ile led a corps under Buell in Kentucky during that officer's campaign against Bragg, and on October 8th participated in the battle of Perryville. From November to December, 1862, be was in command at Nash ville, Tenn., and subsequently participated in the battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga; was assigned to the Middle Military Division. and from February to May, 1865, was in command of the District of Eastern Arkansas. At the close of the war he was brevetted brigadier general in the Regular Army for 'gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Perryville,' and major-general for 'gallant and meritorious services in the field during the Rebellion.' and in March, 1867, reentered the regular service as lieutenant-colonel. Ile became a brigadier-gen eral in 1890 and a major-general in 1894,-was re tired from active service in 1895, represented the United States at the coronation of the Czar in May, 1896, and from September, 1898, to Febru ary, 1899, served on a commission appointed by President McKinley to investigate the adminis tration of the War Department during the Span ish-American War. His father and his eight brothers all served as officers in the Federal Army during the Civil War, and his father and three of his brothers were killed.