MACLAREN, m'-kMern. IAN. The pseu donym of the Scotch writer John Watson (q.v.).
MeLAREN, WILLIAM EDwARD ( 1831 ). An Anneriean bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was born in Geneva. N. Y., gradu ated at Jefferson College in 1851, was a tutor for a time, and in 1857-60 engaged in journalism in Pittsburg and Cleveland. He studied theology in the Presbyterian seminary at Pittsburg. and was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry and sent to BogotA, South America, by the Board of or eign Missions. He was afterwards pastor of churches in Pittsburg, in Peoria, Ill., and in Detroit. His views changed, and he was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1872, and became rector of Trinity Church, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1875 he was consecrated Bishop of Illinois, and when the diocese was di vided he retained the northern portion, now known as the Diocese of Chicago. He founded the Western Theological Seminary at Chicago in 1883, and Waterman Hall for girls at Sycamore, Ill. His publications include: Catholic Dogma
the Antidote of Doubt (1384) ; Inner Proofs of God (1SS4); Analysis of Pantheism (1885) ; The Practice of the Interior Life (1897); The Holy Spirit (1899); and The Essence of Prayer (1901).
McLAUGHLIN, milk-laletin, ANDREW :SINGE A AI ( 1861 ). An American historian. He was born at Beardstown, Ill., and graduated at the University of Miehigan in 1882. After a course in the law department of the same institu tion, he became instructor and in 1891 professor of American history there. In 1903 he was ap pointed to organize the department of history in the Carnegie Institution. He wrote Lewis Cass (ISM ) and a History of the American Nation (1899), and edited Cooley's Principles of Con stitutional Law (1898),