MACLEHOSE, milk"1-hoz, Mrs. AGNES 1759 1841). A sweetheart of Robert Burns, born in April, 1759. She was a daughter of Andrew Craig. a surgeon of Glasgow. Robert Chambers afterwards described her as of "a somewhat voluptuous style of beauty, of lively and easy manners, of a poetical fabric of mind, with some wit, and not too high a degree of re finement and delicacy." In 1776, after a brief courtship, she married James Maclehosc, a Glas gow lawyer. Owing to the husband's jealousy, they separated four years later. Sirs. Siaclehose lived first at Glasgow, and then at Edinburgh, where she was supported by Lord Craig. Her husband sailed for Jamaica. Burns first met Sirs. Maelehose at Edinburgh, December 7, 1787, and a mutual attraction soon grew up. A corre spondence ensued in which they addressed each other as Clarinda and Sylvander. Their last meeting, which took place on December 6, 1791, Burns immortalized in "Ae fond kiss, and then we sever." and in three other lyrics. During the friendship Mrs. Maclehose wrote several lit tle poems, one of which Burns thought worthy of Sappho. She joined her husband in Jamaica, was coldly received, and then returned to Edin burgh, where she died October 22, 1841. The correspondence is published in the works of Burns.
Mel:MYNAH, JOHN FERGUSON (1827-81). An English sociologist, best known for his theory of exogamy. He was born at Inverness and was educated there, at King's College. Aberdeen, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the same year he wrote the article "Law" for the eighth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and was thus led to study the custom of marriage by cap ture. This theory was advanced in An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Mar riage Ceremonies (1885): in the Fortnightly Rericw (1866. April and May), under the title "Kinship in Ancient Greece." and in the June Argosy of the same year in a paper on "Bride Catchipg;" and further contributions are to be found in his Studies in Ancient History (1876), and in "Levirate and Polyandry" (Fortnightly, Slay. 1877) and "Exogamy and Endogamy" (ib., June. 1878). In 1880 be began a study of Maine's theory of the patriarchate, but it was not completed on his death, and was edited in 1885 by Donald McLennan with the title, The Patriarchal Theory. McLennan was also a pio neer in the study of totemism, and wrote on that subject for the supplement to Chambers's Encyclopt•dia (1868), and for the Fortnightly (October and November, 1869, and February, 1870). A J/cnioir of Thomas Drummond from
11cLennan's hand appeared in 1867.
McLEOD, mak-loud', ALEXANDER (1774-1833). A Presbyterian minister. He was born in the island of Mull, came to America in 1792, and graduated at Union College in 1798. The next year lie was licensed to preach; lie became pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of New York and remained there till his death. He published: Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802) ; The Messiah (1803) ; Lectures on the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation (1814) ; View of the Late War (1815); The American Christian Expositor (1832-33) ; and was one of the editors of the Christian Magazine. For his life consult Wylie (New York, 1855).
McLEOD, ARCHIBALD ANGUS (184S-1902). An American railroad manager and president, born in Compton County, Quebec. He came to the United States while a boy, and after attempting unsuccessfully to rur a pottery in Texas be came a rodman on the Duluth docks of the North ern Pacific Railroad. Here he became acquainted with Austin Corbin, who made him manager of the Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad in 1885, and in 1586 acting general manager of the Reading system. In January. 1887, he was named vice-president and general manager, and in 1890 was elected to the board of managers and then became Corbin's successor as president. lle immediately planned a great combination of coal-carrying interests with the Lehigh Valley and the .Jersey Central under Reading control and an all-rail route to New England. But a year after the consolidation the Reading passed into a receivership, and McLeod resigned from the presidency to become one of three receivers. The failure of the scheme possibly was due to the opposition of Morgan interests, as well as to the accumulation of a tremendous float ing debt.
MacLEOD, DONALD (1831—). A Scottish divine and author, second son of Norman Mac Leod. a Scotch clergyman (1783-1862), born at Campsie. Berwickshire, March 18. 1831. After graduating from the ITniversity of Glasgow he settled as minister, first at Lauder ( 1858) and then at Linlithgow (1862), and afterwards at Glasgow (1869). Besides holding several high appointments in the Church of Scotland he was chaplain to Queen Victoria. In 1872 he suc ceeded his brother, Norman MacLeod (q.v.), as editor of Good Words, a popular religious peri odical. Besides memoirs. of his father and his brother. his books include Sunday flame Serriee (1885). and Christ and Modern Society (1893).