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In February, 1876, at the age of nine- moved to Washington in March, 1881, teen years he was married to Miss Mattie receiving an appointment as an examiner S. Hall, a beautiful and estimable Chris- in the pension bureau, department of tian girl, who died in Washington in the interior; was subsequently detailed 1884. Two children blessed this union, for field work in the southern states, Aldine Begole and Eugene Hall McLach- where his official record was excellent. len. In May, 1886, on account of poor health and with a view to engaging in the real estate business, he resigned his position in the pension bureau and formed a partner- ship with Joseph F. Batchelder. By good foresight and strict business integrity a large business has been built up. In all real estate matters Mr. McLachlen is Mr. McLachlen resides with his family in their beautiful home on the banks of the picturesque Rock creek, in the north- west suburbs of Washington, their place bearing the name "Inverness." well informed. Owing to the growth of business and with a view of introducing co-operative principles the firm incorpor- ated their general real estate business in November, 1891, Mr. McLachlen being elected president of the incorporated LOUIS MACKALL, M. D. company. As a business man he stands But few physicians in the city of Waslı- high in the city of his adoption where in ington can claim descent from a longer line of Maryland ancestry than the gen-
Mr. McLachlen's second marriage was solemnized in December, 1884, with Miss Kittie Van Horn of Mount Gilead, Ohio, a very popular and lovely lady. This happy union has been blessed with the . birth of two sons, John Malcom and Lanier McLachlen.
addition to the enterprise alluded to he assisted in the organization of the Peo- tleman whose name heads this sketch, and ple's Fire Insurance company, of which fewer still can claim a higher standing,
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professionally and socially, than he. As|wife; Caroline, who was married to far back as 1635, his paternal forefather Matthew Duvall, and Louis. came from Scotland, and made settle- ment in the then wild colony of Mary- land, but we shall content ourselves with tracing the line of descent from the doc- tor's great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Mackall.
Louis Mackall, the father of the doctor, was born in Georgetown, D. C., in 1802, and became a physician of high standing. His preparatory education was obtained at the noted school of Dr. Carnahan, at Georgetown, and in 1824 he graduated in medicine from the university of Mary- land. He at once began practice in
This most worthy gentleman was born in Calvert county, Maryland, was a planter and was twice married, his second wife Prince George's county, and until about having been the widow Holsworth, and to 1840 was actively engaged in practice, when he retired to private life, having written voluminously on numerous pro- fessional subjects and kindred themes. His first marriage took place, in 1828, to Sarah Somervell Mackall, a daughter of Capt. John Graham Mackall, an officer of the war of 1812, granddaughter of Capt. J. Somervell, a patriot of the Revo- lutionary war, in which he lost an arm at the battle of Camden, S. C. He was also a member of the order of Cincinnati, a this union were born several children, among them Benjamin, Jr., who lived dur- ing the exciting period which preceded the Revolution and during the more exciting period of its progress. He was a patriot of the most ardent zeal, and active in for- warding the cause of the colonies. He was a member of the first constitutional convention of Maryland, his native state, which convention directed representatives of the state in the colonial congress to sign the Declaration of Independ- society first formed by Revolutionary offi- ence. After hostile resistance to the cers. Mrs. Louis Mackall died in 1831, tyranny of Great Britain had been de- the mother of one child only - now Louis cided upon, he was placed in command of Mackall, M. D., who was born April 10th, all the patriot troops raised in Calvert in the same year. In 1851, the widower county. His life partner was Rebecca married Miss Mary Bruce, daughter of Covington, a sister of Gen. Covington, Major Thomas Bruce, of Prince George's who greatly distinguished himself in the county -a son of a Revolutionary offi- war of 1812, in which he lost his life. cer- and this second marriage was fruit-
The third Benjamin Mackall in America, and son of the Benjamin last alluded to, was also born in Calvert county, where he pursued the vocation of a planter. He married Christiana Beall, daughter of Brook Beall, first clerk of the Mont- gomery county court, and to this mar-
ful in the birth of five children, as follows. Benjamin, deceased; Quenton, of Wash- ington, D. C .; Bruce, deceased; Christa- bel, who died unmarried, and Laidler, of Washington. The father lived the al- lotted years of man and died in 1876.
Dr. Louis Mackall, the gentleman with riage were born Benjamin, the fourth; whom this sketch has most to do, was Christiana, who was married to Fielder born, as has been stated above, April 10, Bowie; Richard H., Margaret, who be- 1831, in Prince George's county, Md., but came the wife of Judge Edmund Key; in 1839 was taken by his parents to George- Rebecca, who was Fielder Bowie's second town, D. C., where he received his pre- 21
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liminary education at Abbott's academy
daughter of Rev, James McVean, who was and Georgetown college. After the usual the successor of Dr. Carnahan, who be- preparatory course of medical study, he came president of Princeton college, and this union has resulted in the birth of nine children, of whom six still survive, as follows: Dr. James McVean Mackall, of Georgetown; Sarah Somervell, Lewis Graham, of Georgtown; Margaret; Dr. Louis Mackall, Jr., and Upton Beall. entered the university of Maryland, from which institution he graduated in medi- cine in 1851, and immediately returned to Georgetown to enter upon the practice of his chosen profession. Being of that class of practitioners who keep abreast of the progress of his art, he has succeeded Christiana Beall, the second daughter, died in 1885, and Duncan Frazer and Re- becca Bowie died in infancy.
in obtaining a large practice, in which he is still actively engaged. He is popular with his fellow-practitioners, and is united with them in membership of several so- FRANKLIN H. MACKEY, cieties designed for mutual instruction a well known lawyer of Washington, D. and for the advancement of medical sci- C., is a native of Charleston, S. C., and was born in the year 1843. He received a liberal education in the schools of his native city, and when the war cloud spread its somber folds over the country, was one of the first to respond to the call of his state. His company, the Charleston Zouaves, was ordered out January 1, 1861 to defend Morris Island, and, together . with the Citadel Cadets, built the battery that fired the first shot at the United States vessel, "Star of the West," which was sent to Charleston to relieve the gar- rison of Fort Sumter. Mr. Mackey en- tered the service and fought through the the war as a private. At the close of the war Mr. Mackey went north and en- tered the field of journalism as a newspa- per reporter. In 1873 he began to study law, at Philadelphia, Penn., in the office of Charles Hart, Esq. He was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1876, but shortly afterward removed to Washing- ton, D. C., and at once entered upon the active practice of his profession. Since locating in Washington he has published cleven volumes of the reports of the su-
ence. Among these are the American Medical association, the Medical associa- tion of the District of Columbia, and the Medical society of the District of Colum- bia, and has filled the office of president of the first and second. Equally popular with his fellow-townsmen, he has been chosen by them to serve as councilman and as a member of the board of health. Before the late war he was surgeon of a light infantry battalion of militia organ- ized in the District of Columbia, and was a member of the company selected from that battalion to guard President Lincoln from the white house to the capitol on the occasion of his first inauguration. The doctor has been a prolific writer on medical subjects, and a frequent contribu- tor to the magazines designed to promote a knowledge of therapeutics and the prac- tice of medicine. Among these articles are his treatise on the use of permanga- nate of potash in diphtheria, published in the Hayes Medical Journal, and many other articles published in various other medical journals.
Dr. Louis Mackall was united in mar- preme court of the District of Columbia, riage. in 1851, to Miss Margaret McVean, also a volume on the procedure of the
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court, and was for three years editor of Manning returned to his home in Arkan- the Washington Law Reporter.
COL. VAN H. MANNING.
sas, and practiced law for some time, then wound up his affairs and again went to Mississippi and formed a law partnership at Holly Springs with Judge John W. C. Watson, which partnership lasted until 1876, when Col. Manning was elected to congress from the second Mississippi dis- trict. To this high position he was three times elected. His chief desire while in congress was to reorganize the Federal judiciary. Besides being a presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket, the colonel was a presidential elec- tor at large in Cleveland's first campaign and was the presiding elector in the elec- toral college. At the end of his third term as a congressman, Col. Manning opened his law office in Washington, and from that time until the present has en- joyed a most lucrative practice. The mar- riage of the colonel took place in 1859, to Miss Mary, daughter of W. W. Wallace, of De Soto county, Miss.
This brilliant attorney, statesman and soldier, now of Washington, D. C., was born in Martin county, N. C., July 26, 1839. A year or so later his father moved to DeSoto county, Miss. He was edu- cated at the university of Tennessee. Leaving college in 1858, he, with a brother, went to Kansas and remained there about a year studying law under Judge G. W. Perkins, of Leavenworth; he then returned to Mississippi, and a few months later, in 1859, the year in which he was admitted to the bar, he went to Ashley county, Ark. He has always taken an active part in politics being a fluent speaker and being thoroughly posted in political history. In 1860, he was elected by the state convention as a delegate from his congressional district in Arkansas to the democratic national convention at Charleston, but withdrew with many oth- ers from that body and returned to his WILLIAM MAYSE, home, when he was accredited to the of the firm of William Mayse & Company, bankers, Washington, D. C., is a son of Archibald R. and Elizabeth (Stuart) Mayse, and was born June 15, 1836, on the farm of the late Lewis Seaman, in Monroe township, Logan county, Ohio. The residence of his parents at that time was at Urbana, Ohio, northeast corner of Locust and Water streets. A few days before his birth his mother was called to her maiden home on account of the seri- ous illness of her mother, who died on the same day on which he was born-a death and a birth occurring on the same day in the same house. In the fall of 1839 his parents moved from Urbana to Westville, Mad River township, Cham- Richmond convention and then to the Baltimore convention. In April, 1861, Mr. Manning enlisted for the war in the Con- federate service, in a company from Ham- burg, Ark. This company numbered one hundred and sixteen men and was the nucleus of the Third Arkansas regiment, of which Mr. Manning was colonel. Col. Manning gallantly served with his regi- ment in all its marches and engagements until May 6, 1864, when he was captured at the battle of the Wilderness, where he was badly wounded, and detained as a prisoner for fifteen months. In fact, he was four times wounded - at Antietam, Suffolk, Chickamauga and the Wilderness. After his release from imprisonment, Col. paign county, and during the fall of 1840
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moved from Westville to a farm in the Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, who northern part of Salem township, three was then a new member of congress. He and one-half miles southeast of West Lib- resigned the position November 2, 1881. erty. His school days prior to 1849 were to engage in private business, and on at the Enoch school-house in Salem town- May 1, 1882, he started the banking house ship. During the school terms from 1849 of William Mayse & Co. The company to 1854 he lived in Urbana with his grand- consists of himself, his cousin, William parents, the late William and Nancy Mayse, son of George Mayse, of Urbana, (Burgess) Mayse. From 1854 to 1861 he Ohio, and Cornelia L. Finley, daughter was a school teacher, and commenced his of Judge William Lawrence. Mr. Mayse first school November 20, 1854, in the is also interested in several financial in- Grafton district, three miles south of St. stitutions in Washington city, notably, Paris, Champaign county, Ohio. During Ohio Central, Columbia and Lincoln the fall of 1856 he went to DeWitt county, National banks, the Washington Loan Ill., and taught a term of school in a and Trust company, and the Washington newly created district; came back to Ur- Mutual Real Estate company. He is bana in 1857, and taught school near that president of the board of trustees of place during 1857 and 1858, and in the Urbana Union school during the years 1859, 1860 and 1861.
Hamline Methodist Episcopal church. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church November 29, 1859, at the second charge (Grace church) Urbana, Ohio, Rev. J. J.
company K, Second Ohio regiment, for Thompson, pastor.
April 17, 1861, Mr. Mayse enlisted in three months; this regiment was engaged in the first battle of Bull Run, and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 1861. May 26, 1862, enlisting again -in company H, Eighty-sixth Ohio regiment, for three months - he was elected captain of the company and commissioned by the late Governor David Tod, June 10, 1862. setts, in 1892. This regiment was mustered out at Dela-
Mr. Mayse was married September 27, 1866, to Sarah A. Haller, of Champaign county, Ohio, daughter of Rev. William Haller, by Rev. David Warnock. Their only child, Elizabeth M., was graduated from the Washington high school in ISS7, and from Wellesley college, Massachu-
His parents sold the old homestead to ware, Ohio, September 25, 1862; it did Samuel L. Warye, April 1, ISSS, and pur- service in West Virginia. May 6, 1864, he chased for themselves a home at Urbana, enlisted again - in company A, One Hun-
where they now reside, at the advanced dred and Thirty-fourth Ohio regiment, for age of seventy-nine and seventy-seven 100 days. This regiment was mustered out at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, August 31, 1864; it rendered service be- tween Petersburgh and Richmond, Va.
years respectively, spending the evening of life among their surviving associates of more than one-half century ago. Harri- son Mayse, brother of William Mayse,
At the October election, in 1864, he was enlisted in company G, Sixty-sixth regi- elected coroner of Champaign county. ment Ohio volunteers, and his name was On July 1, 1865, he received an appoint- on its roll from its organization until it ment in the United States pension office was mustered out. While a prisoner of on the recommendation of Hon. William war at Andersonville, Ga., and Florence,
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S. C., he contracted lung disease, which rolled away he was married, in 1817, to caused his death January 24, 1875, at the Margaret Cookus, who bore her husband age of thirty-three years. Mr. Mayse's ten children and died in 1884, having sur- maternal great-grandfather, John Bur- vived her husband eighteen months. Of gess, of Virginia, was a soldier in the these ten children eight grew to maturity, Revolutionary war. His paternal grand- and were named as follows: Benjamin father, William Mayse, was a soldier in the War of 1812.
ELEAZER HUTCHINSON MILLER.
Allen, who married Caroline Eberly and died in 1891; Isaiah Edmund, who mar- ried Rose Stevens; James, Sophia, wife of John Grant, of Shepherdstown; Milton Blair, E. H., Charles M. and Amanda Frances. The father of Solomon Miller was named John, who was born in Ger- many, but early in life came to America and assisted the colonies in freeing them- selves from the tyrannical rule of Great Britain. His children were named Solo- mon, John, Margaret, wife of George Byers of Shepherdstown; Mary and Elizabeth.
This accomplished artist was born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson county, Va., February 28, 1831, and is of Revolutionary descent. He received his preparatory education in his native county, but, being possessed of a taste for the fine arts, espe- cially painting, he left Shepherdstown in 1848 for Washington city, which was then the repository of the masterpieces which, up to that day, the painters of the country had produced. He first took a position in the office of the National Intelligencer, MARTIN V. MONTGOMERY, where he remained two or three years in associate justice of the supreme court of the the District of Columbia, was born in the township of Eaton Rapids, Eaton county, Mich., October 20, 1840, was reared on the home farm and assisted his father in its care until the fall of 1857, when he began teaching district schools, he having himself been educated at schools of like character in his neighbor- hood. Four consecutive winters were thus employed, while the summers he passed in attending the Eaton Rapids graded schools, and in the fall of 1862 be- gan the study of law under Shaw & Crane at the same village. In the fall of 1865 he was admitted to the bar and at once began order to earn money with which to pay his tuition fees in painting. Being inde- fatigable, aspiring and talented, he soon mastered the art and opened his studio, which has ever since been the resort of the élite of the city -- both permanent and ephemeral. In 1859 he married Mary Farnham, daughter of the late Robert and Jane (Blanchard) Farnham of Wash- ington. This congenial union was ended, unfortunately, in 1872, through the death of the estimable lady, who had borne her husband six children, as follows: Caroline, Elizabeth, Robert F., Arthur Peale, Jane and Mary F. The father of the artist was Solomon Miller, who was born in Shep- practice. His talents were at once recog- herdstown, Va., in 1794. He served his nized and his legal knowledge appreci- country gallantly in the war of 1812 and ated. In 1870 he was elected to the state participated in the battles of North Point legislature, and in 1874 was nominated for and Bladensburg, holding the rank of attorney-general, but, with the balance of sergeant. After the clouds of war had the democratic ticket, met with defeat.
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In 1875 he removed to Lansing, Mich., Medical college in the city of Washing- and formed a partnership with R. A. ton, and in the following year, in addition Montgomery, and with him carried on a to the duties of demonstrator, he was ap- large and lucrative law practice. In 1876 pointed assistant to the professor of anat- he was a delegate to the democratic na- omy and recapitulator of his lectures. In tional convention at St. Louis. March 1852 he accepted the chair of physiology 18, 1885, he relinquished his now very ex- in the medical department of George- tensive practice to accept the office of town university, and after filling this commissioner of patents, which office he during several sessions he resigned to ac- resigned in April, 1887, to take his seat cept the chair of medical jurisprudence as associate justice of the supreme court in the same school. In 1858 the chair of of the District of Columbia, a position he materia medica and therapeutics becom- filled with ability and dignity until his resignation in October, 1892.
JAMES ETHELBERT MORGAN, M. D.
(deceased), was born in St. Mary's county, Md., on September 25, 1822. His ances- tors belonged to the families of Morgan, of Monmouthshire, and Cecil, of Kent, England. They were adherents to the with the honorary title of emeritus pro-
cause of Charles I, and were Roman Catholics. They were, therefore, glad to seek an asylum with Lord Baltimore's loyal and Catholic colony of Maryland, from the dangers that then threatened the Catholics and cavaliers of England. After receiving a collegiate education at St. John's college, Md., he graduated in medicine in 1845, and immediately com- menced its practice in Washington, D. C. He soon acquired a large and lucrative practice in all the branches of his profes- sion, for at that time there were no spec- ialists, and every physician was expected to be competent to treat any case to which he might be summoned. Being of a social disposition and devoted to teaching, he soon attracted around him a large classiington during twelve or fifteen years, and of students, to whom he delivered clinical was appointed in conjunction with his col- league, the late Prof. Robert King Stone, a committee to investigate the celebrated lectures in his office, and gave daily ex- aminations. In 1848 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the National | and mysterious "National Hotel disease,"
jing vacant, at the earnest solicitation of his colleagues, he consented to occupy it. These frequent changes entailed on him an immense amount of hard study and mental application. He continued to fill the chair of materia medica and remained there until the end of the session of 1875-6 when, desiring rest, he, with three of his older colleagues in the faculty, retired fessor. During much of his professional career he was connected with public in- stitutions. He was physician and surgeon to the Washington asylum and small-pox hospital for a number of years, and re- signed these positions in 1861. He was requested, in 1862, by the United States sanitary commission to take charge of the Soldiers' Rest, an institution for the recep- tion of sick and disabled soldiers on their way to and from the armies of the south. During the same year he was appointed surgeon-in-chief to the quartermaster's hospital located in Washington. This po- sition he held until the abolition of that hospital in 1865. He was a member of the board of health for the city of Wash-
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which was then creating a great excite- mother of the patriotic family of Carroll, ment throughout the United States. of Maryland. By this marriage he had
In 1848 he became a member of the six children, viz .: Ethelbert C., of whom Medical society of the District of Colum- further mention is made further on; Eli- bia and became its president in 1873, and nora D., who is the wife of Judge Emery was also vice-president of the Medical Seer, of Georgia; Annie M., the wife of association of the District of Columbia, Mr. James Mosher; Dr. James Dudley Morgan, mentioned again below, married Miss Abel, a grand-daughter of Mr. A. S. Abel, the founder of the Baltimore Sun; Adia M., who is married to Dr. Richard S. Hill, and Cecil Morgan, married to Miss Henrietta Dodson. having previously held most of the minor offices of those bodies. He was among the earlier members of the American Med . ical association, being accredited to its meetings either as delegate of the college in which he was professor or of the Medical society of the District of Columbia. When Dr. Morgan died on Sunday, June 2, 1889, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Dr. Morgan was one of Washington's most distinguished citizens and physicians, and contributed a number of articles upon medical topics to the literature of the day, among which may be mentioned one on " Paronychia as an Epidemic." His " De- fense of Medicine and of the Medical Profession," delivered before the Medical society of the District of Columbia, was a the judicial council was organized in 1873 he was elected a member, and on the ex- piration of his term of service was re elected in 1875. He had charge for a number of years of the medical staff of the militia of the District of Columbia, and on the breaking out of the war he was appointed colonel of the Fourth reg- iment of the District of Columbia militia. After organizing this regiment he re- signed, and accepted the office of surgeon powerful and philosophical plea for the of the militia. He did this, because, al-
value of drugs in the curing of disease, though he had opposed secession with all concluding with the following language: his influence, he was unwilling to take up " I believe all diseases are curable or sus- arms against his own people. He was for ceptible of palliation. Our experiences a number of years a trustee of the public demonstrate the truth of this proposition, our reason confirms it, and our instinct impels us to a practical application of it. I, therefore, gentlemen, in conclusion, re-
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