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MACIEJOWICE, miechh-y6-vIt'se. A village of Russian Poland, in the Government of Sledlee, near the right bank of the Vistula. It is noted for the battle fought there on October 10, 1794, in which the Polish patriots under Kosciuszko succumbed to the Russians,' commanded by Su varofr and Fersen.

McILHEN'NEY, CHARLES :MORGAN (1858 —). An American landscape painter. born in Philadelphia, Pa. He studied under Briseoe and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His landscapes are treated with quiet color and much feeling. They include "A Gray Summer Noon" (1S84) and "The Passing Storm" (1887). He won the first Hailgarten prize in 1893, medals at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, and hon orable mention at the Paris Exposition.

McILVAINE, CHARLES PETTIT (1799-1873). An American bishop of the Protes tant Episcopal Church. He was born in Bur lington, N. J., graduated at Princeton in 1816, was ordained minister in 1821, and had charge of Christ Church, Georgetown, D. C., for five years. From 1825 to 1827 he was chaplain and professor of ethics and history in the Military Academy at West Point. From 1827 to 1832 he was rector of Saint Ann's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1831 was chosen professor of ethics and revealed religion in the University of the City of New York. He was consecrated Bishop of Ohio in 1832, and also held the position of president of Kenyon College at Gambier in that State from 1832 to 1840, and afterwards of the theological seminary there. During the Civil War he was a member of the United States Sani tary Commission, and, visiting Europe, publicly defended the national cause. Among his pub lished writings are: Lectures on the Eridenecs of Christianity (1832); The Holy Catholic Church (1844); The Truth and the Life (1855).

McINTOSH, mulein-t5sh, LACHLAN (1725 )806). An American soldier. He was born near Baits, Badenoch, Scotland, and was a son of John More McIntosh, who went to Georgia in 1736. Lachlan entered the mercantile house of Henry Laurens at Charleston, but was after wards a ]and surveyor. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War he was colonel of the First Georgia Battalion, and in 1776 was made a brig adier-general. In 1777 he killed ex-Governor Button G•innett in a due]. He was selected by Washington to lead an expedition against the Western Indians in 1778; was present at the siege of Savannah the next year: and was taken prisoner at the capture of Charleston in 1780. He was a member of the Continental Congress in 1784.

McINTOSH', MARIA JANE (1803-78). An American author, born in Georgia. She removed to New York City, and having lost her fortune in the panic of 1837, undertook authorship as a means of support by publishing in 1841. under the pseudonym 'Aunt Kitty,' a juvenile story, Blind Alice. This was followed by other tales, all re published in London. Subsequent works, written for adults, were Two Lives, or to Seem and to Be (1846); Charms and Counter Charms (1848); the Lofty and lice Lowly (1832), a story of plan tation life; Jleta Gray (1838); Two Pictures (I863).

MacIVOR, mhk-e'ver. FLORA. The heroine of Scott's il'acerley, and sister of the eottish chief tam Fergus 3laclvor, after whose death she with draws to a convent.