History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania. Containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 151

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and to whom Mr. King says he is largely indebted for the success in life he has at- tained. She is of Scotch-Irish and French descent, and to this union have been born six children: Ollivetta Jane, wife of W. G. Horner, of Emmittsburg, Md .: Emma Reed, wife of B. E. Snyder, of Chicago. Ill .; John Barrett, a railroad engineer; Fannie Violet: Mary Ellen and Thomas Starr. "Mr. King is independent both in politics and religion, affiliating with no religious denomination, but is identified politically with the Greenback party. He served and was commissioned as first lieutenant and afterwards was acting captain of the Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war of the Re- bellion, and is a representative business man of Adams County, Three brothers, named King, and ancestor- of Mr. King on his mother's side, took up land and were among the first, if not the very first. settlers on Upper Conowago Creek, in what was afterward known as the "Conowago Settlement," long before the county was formed and as early as 1735 or 1738.

J. A. KITZMILLER, attorney at law. Gettysburg, was born in that place October 14, 1842, son of Samuel and Jane ( Harper) Kitzmiller, natives of this county, and of German and Scotch-Irish extraction. The birth of Samuel Kitzmiller occurred in 1806, and in youth he learned the harness maker's trade, which vocation he followed for many years. He is still living, at the advanced age of eighty years, and well cared for by his son, J. A. Of his nine children, six grew to maturity, one of whom, John, was a member of Company B. One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Cold Harbor. June 1, 1861. 1. A. Kitzmiller was reared in Gettysburg, and left the high school to learn the trade of blacksmithing. In 1862 he enlisted in the United States service, joining the same company and regiment as his brother John. He participated in several hard fought battles, and while in an engagement at Spottsylvania Court House. Va., May 12, 1864, he lost his left arm. In 1865 he was elected prothonotary of Adams County, and subsequently was appointed postmaster of Gettysburg under both terms of President Grant's administration. Ile has served twelve years as school di- rector of the board of Gettysburg, of which he was president for seven years. In 1879 he was elected burgess of Gettysburg, and in 1877 was appointed notary public, and served six years in that capacity. In 1869 he commenced the study of law under Ilon. David Wills, of Gettysburg, and was admitted to the bar in 1871, and has since been en- gaged in the practice of his profession. He is manager and treasurer of the Adams County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is identified with the O. of R. M. and G. A. R. He is the only surviving soldier who enlisted at Gettysburg that lost a limb in any battle. In 1866 Mr. Kitzmiller was married to Anna G., daughter of J. Henry Garlach, of German lineage, and to the marriage were born Ida M. and Lulie. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church at Gettysburg. Mr. Kitz- miller is indeed a self-made man. He takes a deep interest in local and national politics, and was a delegate to the national convention which nominated James G. Blaine for president. He is one of the subjects of the famous Curtis-Kitzmiller letter during the Blaine and Cleveland campaign.

JOIIN M. KRAUTHI, attorney at law. Gettysburg, was born in that borough, March 3. 1846, son of Rev. Charles Philip and Harriet (Brown) Krauth, the former a son of Charles J. Kranth, a native of Germany. Rev. Charles Philip Krauth was the first presi- dent of Pennsylvania College, and one of the foremost educators in the State. He was born in Montgomery County, Penn., May 7, 1797; was twice married, and by each mar- riage had two children. those by the first marriage being deceased, John M. and Sarah P. being born to the second. President Krauth died May 30, 1867, and his widow and her daughter now reside with John M. (For a full sketch of President Krauth the reader is re- ferred to the records of the college.) Our subject, at the age of eighteen, graduated from the Pennsylvania College, and in 1864, enlisted in the United States Signal Service, serv- ing until August, 1865. Ile read law under the instruction of the Hon. D. MeConaughy, of Gettysburg, was admitted to the bar November 18, 1867, and has since followed the fortunes of that profession. From 1869 to 1873 he served as assistant assessor of internal revenue: was a member of the school board from 1869 to 1886. when he resigned; and from 1877 to 1885 he served as postmaster of Gettysburg, and was elected district attorney of Adams County, in November, 1885. October 12. 1875. Mr. Krauth was married to Mary J., daughter of John S. Crawford, of Scotch descent, and to this union have been born the following named children: Harriet B., Elizabeth S. and Anna C. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Krauth is a director and secretary of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association and a member of post No. 9, G. A. R. IIe is a Master Mason, a member of Lodge No. 336.

CALVIN P. KRISE, Gettysburg, was born in Freedom Township. Adams Co., Penn., September 1, 1834, a son of Abraham and Jane (Tott) Krise. The fatber was a native of Maryland, but passed almost his entire life in Adams County, occupied as a farmer un- til late in life when he retired from active work and removed to Gettysburg, where his death occurred in 1880 at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Calvin P., the eldest son, was reared on a farm, and there taught to work by a good father, who was a regular Jacksonian Democrat, and who was a man of influence, but very stern and set in his way,

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and of whom it was said he was seldom on the wrong side. Our subject attended the district schools in Freedom Township, and remained on the farm with his parents, until he enlisted February 27, 1865, in Company E, under Captain Giller of the Ninety-Ninth Regiment, P. V. I. At the close of the war he went West, and has since passed five sum- mers there, yet his home and main business have been at Gettysburg, where he and his sister reside in comfortable dwellings located on Carlisle Street.

JUDGE WILLIAM McCLEAN, president judge, Gettysburg, was born in that town March 13, 1833, the eldest in a family of six children, a son of Hon. Moses and Mary (Mc- Conaughy) McClean, natives of this county, and of Scotch-Irish origin. The judge's an- cestors on both sides were among the early settlers of this locality, and were people of prominence, the McClean family having settled in Pennsylvania in about 1733. (In the sketch of Hon. D. McConanghy, and in the history proper of this volume, will be found the early history of the MeConaughys). Moses McClean was a lawyer hy profession, and died in Gettysburg in 1870, having practiced law there for half a century. He represented the people of Adams County in the State Legislature and the people of his district in Con- gress. Judge MeClean graduated at what is now Washington and Jefferson College (then Washington) in 1851. He read law in Gettysburg, under the instruction of his father, and subsequently furthered his studies at Harvard University, and was admitted to the bar in 1854, from which time until 1874 he was in active practice. In 1873 he served as a mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention, and the following year was elected president judge, in which capacity he served ten years, and at the expiration of that time, on the meeting of the four conventions of the two counties comprising the district, he was renominated by both Democrats and Republicans without opposition, and at this time is serving the second term in that office. It is said of him that he does his duty fearless of friend or foe. In 1855, Judge McClean was married to Miss Fannie Riggin, a native of Maryland, and of English descent. The children (now living) born to this union are Hannah Mary, wife of Rev. Charles M. Stock of Bedford County, Penn .; Olivia C .; William, a lawyer of Gettysburg, a graduate of Pennsylvania College, and of the law department of the Uni- versity of Georgia. Mrs. McClean died in 1867, and in 1874 the judge married Miss Matilda Gates of Kittanning. Pennsylvania, and of Irish origin. The union was blessed with two children, one-Saint John-surviving. Judge McClean lost his second wife in 1885. She was a member of the Episcopal Church. The judge is also a member of that church, has been church warden for several years and has served assuperintendent of the Sunday-school.

COL JOHN H. MCCLELLAN, retired, Gettysburg, was born in Adams County, Penn., March 5, 1808. His grandfather, William McClellan, the second, was born near Coleraine, Ireland, in 1735, and came with his family to Marsh Creek, York Co., Penn., in 1739, died in 1796, and was buried on the farm in the family grave-yard. William McClel- lan, third, was born June 21, 1763. He was married to Mary Magdalen Spangler, of York, daughter of Mr. Baltzer Spangler, of that town, January 31, 1788; died at Marsh Creek, and was buried in the family grave-yard July 27, 1831. William, third, was quite an act- ive, public-spirited man, and was once high sheriff of York County. His family consisted of four boys and eight girls. The boys were William, Baltzer, George Washington and John Il., the last named, the only one now living, being the subject of this sketch, occupying the old hotel in the town of Gettysburg, which his father purchased from the executor of James Scott, in 1808, and which has been in the family ever since. William, fourth, the eldest son of William, third, was quite a prominent citizen. Fle had one son and four daughters. He was born December 22, 1789, and died May 4. 1845. William B. McClellan, his son, was an attorney at law, and died in 1863. The fifth William and his son. William B. McClellan, the sixth, are still living in Texas. Our subject received but limited educational advantages, and began life as a clerk in the bank at Gettysburg, which position he filled for thirty-three and one-third years, one-third of a century. He has been a successful business man, and has recently erected a block of buildings in Gettys- burg, which stand as a monument to his enterprise. In 1840 he was appointed treasurer of the county, and served until 1843, when he was elected to the same office. Mr. McCle !- lan is identified with the Presbyterian Church, and is highly esteemed for his excellent qualities. He has never married. "Col." Mcclellan, as he is familiarly called, related that, in 1842, he had the pleasure and rare experience of riding in a balloon from Gettys- burg to the vicinity of York, two miles high (see Wise's history). Ile is now in his sev- enty-ninth year.

HON. DAVID McCONAUGHY, attorney and counselor, Gettysburg, was born in that place July 13, 1823, a son of John and Margaret (Patterson) McConaughy, natives of this county, and of Scotch-Irish descent. The McConanghy family were among the first settlers of Adams County, and one of the most prominent of her pioneers. David McCon- aughy, the great grandfather of David, was a member of the Legislature in the old colon- ial times, took active part in the Revolutionary war, and after its close served again in the Legislature, and was sheriff of York County, by commission from George III. By occupation he was a farmer and miller. The great-grandfather of David on his mother's side, Arthur Patterson, of Lancaster County, Penn., was a member of the Legislature both

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before and after the Revolution, and performed service in that war as captain. The lives of these two men were very much alike: both were of Scotch-Irish extraction, came from the old country in the same vessel, and each served as a justice of the pence, as well as in the Legislature together. John Met'onaughy, the father of our subject, located in Hettys- burg in 1800. He had been a farmer and miller, and became a lawyer in 1806. David was the youngest child of three sons and three daughters, and is the only one now residing in Adams County. Robert, the eldest son, read law and was admitted to the bar at Gettys- burg. removed to Indiana and there died in 1840. James, the second son, is a manufacturer in Johnstown, Cambria Co., Penn. The daughters were Hannah Mary, wife of Moses Mc- Clean, whose son. Hon. William McClean, is the present judge of this district: Elizabeth. the widow of Prof. M. L. Stoever, and Martha E., wife of Rev. David Wilson, a Presbyte- rian clergyman, late of Missouri, who, at one time was president of a college at Monrovia, Liberia, and served as chaplain in the Union Army. David grew to manhood in his na- tive town, and at the early age of seventeen years graduated at Washington College, Penn., in 1840. After graduating he accepted a position as principal of a high school in Mary- land where he remained two years. In 1812-45 be read law under his brother-in-law, Moses McClean, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, since which time he has continued in the practice of his profession, in which he has been successful, both in the management of his cases and in a pecuniary sense. It was mainly through his efforts that the Ever- green Cemetery was established in Gettysburg, in 1853, of which he was president and so remained until 1863. In the last year, on the invasion of the State by Confederate troops, Mr. McConanghy offered his services to the Government and was assigned to the secret service. At the battle of Gettysburg he was, by special order of Gen. Couch, appointed aide-de-camp. with the rank of captain, and after the battle he received a letter of thanks from Gen. Meade for services rendered. Mr. McConaughy conceived the idea of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, of which he was chosen president in 1863. and served ten years, and actively negotiated for the purchase of the land on which the battle was fought, which is now the property of the association. In politics he was first a Whig, then a Republican. He has filled a number of offices of honor and trust, among which were those of school director, member of the town council and State senator, hav- ing been elected to the latter office in 1865. In 1847 his marriage with Catharine, daugh- ter of George Arnold (for years cashier of the First National Bank, Gettysburg) was cele- brated. Her death occurred in 1853, and for his second wife our subject married Leana, daughter of James B. Matthews, of Maryland, and to the latter marriage were boru three sons, all of whom are graduates of Pennsylvania College: James graduated at the age of seventeen years, now the associate general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., of New York; David graduated at the age of eighteen, is general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., of Phila- delphia: Samuel graduated in his nineteenth year, is secretary of northwestern branch of the Y. M. C. A., of Philadelphia; and a daughter, Mary, a graduate of the female semi- nary at Pittsfield, Mass. The family is identified with the Presbyterian Church. Mr. MeConaughy was a member of the National Convention which nominated Abraham Lin- coln for President the first time, and a member of the Electoral College at his second elec- tion.

ROBERT MCCURDY (deceased), who for many years was prominent in the political and industrial life of Adams County, was a son of Capt. William MeCurdy, who died in 1849. William MeCurdy represented Adams County in the State Legislature in 1839, his competitor being the great commoner, Thaddeus Stevens, whom he defeated. Robert Mc- Curdy was born in 1813 in Cumberland Township, on what is known as the MeCurdy farm, a beautiful tract, comprising over 300 acres. In 1846 he married Mary Marshall, daughter of Hon. John Marshall, of Carroll's Tract, whom he survived seventeen years. For a number of years he resided on his farm, but the condition of his health, and his de- sire for a more active life led him to seek other occupations, and about 1856 he removed with his family to Gettysburg. He was one of the earliest and most persistent promoters of the Gettysburg Railroad, which gave to Gettysburg its first modern facilities by connec- tion with the Hanover Branch Railroad. He was, on its completion, elected president. serving in this capacity until the road passed into the hands of the courts, by which he was appointed sequestrator, remaining in that office until the final sale of the road. In 1869 he was elected associate judge, serving one term, the office then being abolished by the new constitution, which went into effect in 1873. In 1871 Judge MeCurdy was com- missioned by Gov. Geary a trustee to superintend the removal of the Confederate dead from the tield of Gettysburg, acting in conjunction with E. G. Fahnestock, Esq. In 1880 he was elected to the office of prothonotary, serving one term. In addition to these elect- ive offices, Judge MeCurdy was for many years a manager of the Adams County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and one of the managers of the Evergreen Cemetery. A man of strong religious feeling, he was for a long term of years a ruling elder in the Preshyte- rian Church. Few men were more thoroughly imbued with the principles of early Dom- ocracy than Judge MeCurdy. yet. although strongly attached to its history, and believing in the necessity of its supremacy, he was not a bitter partisan, the genial character of his nature and the conservative bent of his mind leading him to avoid extreme views. He died in August, 1885.

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HARVEY W. McKNIGIIT, president and professor of intellectual aud moral science, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, is a native of this county, born in MeKnightstown April 3, 1843, of Thomas and Margaret (Stewart) McKnight, of Scotch-Irish descent. Thomas MeKnight. the founder of MeKnightstown, was a farmer and merchant. His death occurred in 1850. Harvey W., the youngest of a family of nine children, was only a lad of seven years at the time of his father's death. The mother, after the death of her husband, moved to Jackson Hall, in Franklin County, Penn., where our subject was occupied for a time in the village schools and for three years as a clerk in a general store. He for a time attended the academy at Chambersburg, and in 1860 entered Pennsylvania College, and pursued his studies until 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was made orderly sergeant, and subsequently promoted to the office of second lieutenant, but on account of ill health was soon compelled to resign. After his return home he was made adjutant of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, and as such served during the inva- sion of Pennsylvania by the rebel forces in 1863. After the burning of Chambersburg, in 1864, he was commissioned captain of Company D, Two Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served as such until the close of the war, in 1865. He then returned to Pennsylvania College, from which he was graduated that year, and entered the theological seminary at Gettysburg, and from that institution graduated in 1867, and was licensed as a preacher. From 1867 to 1870 he served as pastor of a church at Newville; then, owing to bad health, he retired from the ministry for a period of two years. From 1872 to 1880 he was pastor of St. Paul's Church, at Eaton, Penn. From 1880 to 1884 he served as pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1878 Dr. MeKnight was elected a trustee of his alma mater, and the same year delivered the alumni address at the theological seminary, Gettysburg. In 1884 he was chosen, by a unanimous vote, president of Pennsylvania College, which office he has since filled. No- vember 12, 1867, he was married to Mary K., daughter of Solomon and Jane (Livingstone) Welty, whose parents were of Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania German descent. To this marriage have been born Jane M. and Mary L. Mrs. McKnight is identified with the Lutheran Church. The title of D. D. was conferred on our subject hy Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1883.

HON. EDWARD McPHERSON, LL. D., Gettysburg, is a descendant in the fourth generation of Robert and Janet McPherson, who settled on Marsh Creek, Adams County (then Lancaster), in the year 1738. Robert died in 1749; Janet in 1767.

Col. Robert McPherson, his great grand-father, was educated at the Academy at New London, Chester County, and was for thirty years an active and influential citizen, and filled many important positions in York County. He was auditor in 1755 and 1767; com- missioner in 1756; sheriff in 1762; assemblyman in 1765- 67 and 1781-'84. He was a member for York County of the provincial conference of committees, which met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1776, and was also a member of the Constitutional Convention, which in July, 1776, formed the first constitution of the State of Pennsylvania. He was captain in Gen. Forbes' expedition to reduce Fort Du Quesne in 1758, and served as col- onel in the Revolutionary Army, and, after expiration of term, as an assistant-commissary of supplies. His wife was Agnes Miller, of the Cumberland Valley, by whom he had nine children-six daughters and three sons. Of the former two died in infancy. Janet mar- ried Maj. David Grier, of York; Mary married Alexander Russell, Esq., of Gettysburg; Agnes married Dr. Andrew McDowell, of Chambersburg, and Elizabeth married James Riddle, Esq., of Chambersburg. The eldest son, William. married, first, Mary Carrick of Maryland; next, Sarah Reynolds of Shippensburg. Penn. Robert died unmarried, and John married Sarah Smith, of Frederick, Md. Col. Robert was one of the charter trustees of Dickinson College. He died in 1789.

Lieut. William McPherson, grand-father of Edward, served honorably in the Revolu- tionary war, having heen a lieutenant in 1776, in Miles' Rifle Regiment. and was captured by the enemy at the battle of Long Island, and kept a prisoner of war for nearly two years. On his return to civil life he discharged many public trusts, and for nine years repre- sented York County in the Legislature, as the special champion of the bill for the creation of Adams County, which was accomplished in 1800. He died in Gettysburg August 2, 1832, in his seventy-fifth year.

John B. MePherson, grand-son of Col. Robert McPherson, a son of Lieut. William McPherson by Mary Carrick, of Frederick County, Md., and father of Edward, was born near Gettysburg November 15, 1789, on the farm on which his great-grandfather settled in 1738. He died in Gettysburg, January 4, 1858. Our subject lost his mother when quite young, and spent several of his earlier years with his grand-father, Capt. Samuel Carrick, of the neighborhood of Emmittsburg, Md. He subsequently returned to his home, where he spent his youth. He received a fair education at the academies of Gettysburg and York. He spent several years of his life in Frederick City, Md., with his uncle, Col. John McPherson, and for a year was a clerk in the Branch Bank, located in that place. He was married in Frederick, April 25, 1810, to Miss Catharine, daughter of Godfrey Lenhart, Esq., and grand-daughter of Yost Herbach, all of York County. Early in 1814 he removed

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to Gettysburg with a view to entering the mercantile business, but on the 26th of May of that year. he was elected enshier of the bank of Gettysburg, then recently chartered and organized. He continued in that position until his death, a period of nearly forty-four years. lle had superior business ability and courteous manners, combined with strength of character and a high sense of personal and official honor, He participated actively in municipal and county affairs, and filled many posts of trust. He was highly intelligent and well read, and was a patron and efficient friend to Pennsylvania College, of whose board of trustees he was president at the time of his death. His widow survived him about one year. They left several children. A grand-son, Hou. John B. McPherson. is associate law judge of the Dauphin and Lebanon District. Another grand-son, Dr. J. MePherson Scott, has twice represented his native county of Washington. Md .. in the Legislature, is a physician of high standing, and was a district delegate in the Republican National Convention of 1884.

Hon. Edward McPherson, youngest son of John B. and Catharine MePherson, was born in Gettysburg, July 31. 1830, and was educated at the public schools of that town and at Pennsylvania College, graduating from the latter in 1848 at eighteen with the valedictory. He early developed a taste for politics and journalism, but at the request of his father be- gan the study of law with llon. Thaddeus Stevens at Lancaster, which, however, he abandoned on account of failing health, and for several winters was employed in Harris- burg as a reporter of legislative proceedings and a correspondent for the Philadelphia North American and other newspapers. In the campaign of 1851 he edited in the interest of the Whig party the Harrisburg Daily LImerican, and in the fall of that year he took charge of the Lancaster Independent Whig, which he edited until January, 1854. In the spring of 1853 he started the Inland Daily, the first daily paper published at Laneaster. ITis health proved unequal to such exacting labors and he relinquished them as stated. except for brief periods at Pittsburgh, in 1855, and at Philadelphia from the fall of 1878 to the spring of 1880, since which time he has not had xetive connection with the press. The first im- portant public service rendered by Mr. McPherson was the preparation of a series of let- ters, ten in number, which were printed in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in the year 1857. and afterward in pamphlet form, their object being to prove the soundness of the financial policy which demanded the sale by the State of its main line of public improvements. The letters analyzed the reports of the canal commissioners for a series of years, proved the falsity of the onelusions drawn from them, and demon- strated the folly of continued State ownership and management. The letters were never answered. and they formed the text from which were drawn the arguments in favor of the sale, which was accomplished in 1858. The next year he prepared a like series on the sale of the branches of the State canal, which had a like reception. Both series of letters were published anonymously, but were signed "Adams," after his native county. In 1856 be published an address on "The Growth of Individualism," which was deliv- ered before the alumni of his alma mater, of whose board of trustees he has been for vears an active member. Another was published in 1858 on " The Christian Principle, Is Influence upon Government," and still another in, in 1859, on " The Family In Its Rela- tions to the State," hoth of which were delivered before the Y. M. C. A. of Gettysburg. In 1863 he delivered an address before the literary societies of Dickinson College on the subject. "Know Thyself. " personally and nationally considered. In 1858 Mr. MePherson was elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress from the Sixteenth District of Pennsylvania, em- bracing the counties of Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Juniata, and was re-elected in 1860. In 1862 he was defeated in the political reaction of that date. the district having been meanwhile changed by the substitution of Somerset County for Juniata. Upon the completion of his congressional term of service he was appointed in April, 1863. by President Lincoln, upon Secretary Chase's recommendation, deputy commissioner of in- ternal revenue, in which position he served until December, 1863, when he was chosen clerk of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-eigth Congress, which office he con- tinned to hold during the Thirty ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses and again in the Forty-seventh Congress, being the longest continnons serv- ice and the longest service in that post from the beginning of the Government. During the administration of President Hayes he served as chief of the bureau of engraving and printing of the Treasury Department for eighteen months, during which time he re-organ- ized and reformed its administration and obtained from Congress an appropriation of $325,000 for the erection of its present fire-proof building in Washington City. The entire cost of it was met out of one year's savings from the appropriations made for the bureau and an equal amount was left unexpended in the Treasury. During his service in Con- gress the principal speeches of Mr. MePherson were on " Disorganization and Disunion," delivered February 24, 1860. in review of the two months' contest over the election of a speaker in the Thirty-sixth Congress; "The Disunion Conspiracy," delivered January 23, 1861. in examination of the secession movement and the arguments made in justification of it: "The Rebellion: Our Relations and Duties," delivered February 14, 1862, in general discussion of the war; "The Administration of Abraham Lincoln and Its Assailants, "de- livered June 5, 1862. During and since his ineumbency of the clerkship he published

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