MACPHERSON, Sir DAVID LEWIS (1818-96). A Canadian statesman, born September 12, 1818, at Inverness, Scotland. He was educated there at the Royal Academy. Emigrating to Ontario in 1835, lie entered a firm of railroad contractors and was subsequently president of the Inter oceanic Railroad Company, which undertook to build a railroad through British Columbia. Hav ing been a member of the Legislative Council of Canada from 1864 to 1867, he was called (1867 p to the Dominion Senate, of which he was elected Speaker in 1880. In 1883 he resigned to become. Minister of the Interior, a position which he hell till 1885. For his services he was knighted in 1S84. His publications consist of pamphlets rela tive to finance, such as Banking and Currency (1869). He died August 16, 1896.
IVIePHERSON, EDWARD (1830-951. An American journalist, born in Gettysburg, Pa. He graduated at Pennsylvania College in 1848, and studied law, but soon became a journalist. He became prominently identified with the organiza tion in 1856 of the new Republican Party at Har risburg. where he lived, and in 1S58 and again
in 1860 was a Republican member of Congress. He was Deputy Commissioner of Internal Rev enue fur a short time, and from 1863 to 1373, from 1881 to 1S83, and from I839 to 1391 was clerk of the National House of Representatives. Ile was permanent president of the Republican National Convention in 1876, in 1877-78 was chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and from 1878 to 1880 was editor of the Phila delphia Press. He became editor of The Hand book of Politics in 1872, and from 1377 until his death was editor of the York Tribune Al manac. lie was also a political editorial writer on the Tribune. Ile published A Political His tory of the United. States During the Great Re bellion (I865). and _l Political History of the United Mates During Reconstruction (1370).