Who's who in Pennsylvania; containing authentic biographies of Pennsylvanians who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement. First Edition. V.1, Pt.2, Part 7

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910, ed
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York, L. R. Hamersly company
Number of Pages: 860


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mar and Composition," 1898, and a num- ber of books on music. Address, Millers- ville, Pa.


LYON, Walter:


State Senator; born April 27. 1853, in Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pa .; son of Henry Baldwin and Mary Ann (White) Lyon; educated in the public schools, Professor Gourlay's Academy and Professor Wakeham's School in Al . legheny and by private tutors; was ad- mitted to the Allegheny County bar Jan. 13, 1877; was Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, President of the Sen- ate and Board of Pardons from Jan 15, 1895, to Jan. 71, 1899; was also in the State Senate from the Allegheny Sena- torial District, by election, to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Senator J. N. Neeb. Republican in politics and mem- ber of the Union Club, Pittsburg, and the Allegheny Country Club. Address, Se- wickley, Pa.


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MACALISTER, James:


President of Drexel Institute, Philadel- phia; born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 26, 1840; he was graduated from Brown University and received the degree of A. M .; he studied law in the University of New York and received the degree of LL.B. He was Superintendent of Public Schools in Milwaukee from 1874 to 1883; Regent of Normal Schools, Wisconsin. from 1878 to 1883; First Superintendent of Public Schools in Philadelphia from 1883 to 1891; he resigned to become Pres- ident of the Drexel Institute, which posi- tion he still holds; he was Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania from 1885 to 1897; he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1SS6; in 1889 Brown University conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D .; in 1889 the French Government conferred upon him the appointment and decoration of Officer d'Academie. In 1895 he was appointed a member of the Jury of Awards in the Atlanta Interstate and International Exposition, and in 1903 a member of the Advisory Board of Edu- cation in the Louisiana Purchase Ex- position, St. Louis, 1901. Ile is a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees, Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, and of other public bodies. He has been lecturer on History and Institutes of Education in


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the Johns Hopkins University and on History of Education in New York Uni- versity. He was invited to read a paper in the International Educational Confer- ence, held in London in 1884, and was selected to read a paper in the Educa- tional Congress in the Exposition Univer- selle, Paris, 1900. He has published num- erons addresses, reports and papers on education. Address, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.


MACBETH, George A .:


President of the Charleroi Savings and Trust Company. Address, Charleroi, Washington County, Pa.


MACCONNELL, Charles Curtis:


Captain United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Second Lieutenant Fifth Artillery, May 14, 1861; First Lieutenant, Aug. 1, 1863; Captain, May 1, 1$75; retired, April 18, 1SS3; brevetted First Lieutenant, June 27, 1862, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the Peninsular campaign in Vir- ginia; Captain, July 2, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., and Major, March 25, 1865, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices during the attack on Ft. Steedman, Virginia. Address, Morristown, N. J.


MACCONNELL, Charles J .:


Chief Engineer United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 14, 1837; served an apprenticeship as a mechan- ical engineer, studied and practiced civil engineering; he was a graduate of State Normal School at Trenton, N. J .; mem- ber of Company A, National Guard of that State; in 1861 he volunteered for three months; he was detailed for spe- cial services at the Arsenal at Tren- ton during most of the time. He was appointed Third Assistant Engineer in regular service on Oct. 29. 1861; ordered to gunboat Kineo on Nov. 2. 1961; joined the fleet of Admiral Farragut in Gulf of Mexico in February, 1862, and participated in the fighting which oc- eurred between the Passes and Fort Jackson; he was present during the battle at this place and its capture, and the cap- ture of New Orleans; he was actively engaged in all the various battles in the Mississippi at Donaldsonville, Plaquemine. Baton Rouge. Port Hudson and Vicks- burg. the destruction of the ram Arkan- sas and various skirmishes up and down the Mississippi and the Texan coast; was


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detached from the Kineo at Baltimore, Oct. 31, 1863. He was promoted to grade of Second Assistant Engineer in Septem- ber, 1863; ordered to Pontusuc. March 31, 1864; was detached from this ship and reported for duty on board the Mattabesett, on blockade duty and in the Sounds of North Carolina; he fought the ram Albemarle off Edenton, N. C., and did guard duty at Plymouth in the Roa- noke River; remained on this ship until after the surrender of General Johnson at Goldsboro; was then ordered to New York and detached on May 31, 1865; after a short leave he was ordered to duty at League Island and assisted in establish- ing the Navy Yard at that place. On Nov. 20, 1897, he was ordered to the flag- ship New York as Fleet Engineer of the North Atlantic Station, and took part in all the stirring events and incidents of the Spanish War; was in the blockade of Havana and participated in the bom- bardments of Porto Rico, Matanzas and the Moro of Santiago, and in the final battle with the Spanish fleet off Santiago on July 3, 1898; the next day after this battle he was stricken with sciatica. owing to arduous duty and the inroads of the climate, and placed on the sick list. On Aug. 10. 1898, he attained the rank of Captain, and on the same day was pro- moted two numbers on the list of Chief Engineers by the President for conspicu- ous conduct and bravery in battle. He came home in the flagship to New York, Aug. 20. 1889; was detached and ordered to Naval Hospital for treatment; he was examined by a medical board and placed on sick leave for three months; was afterward ordered before a Retiring Board at New York Navy Yard on Jan. 9, 1899, and retired on Jan. 19 following. Address, 172 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.


MACFARLANE, Alexander:


Mathematician and physicist; born at Blairgowrie, Scotland. April 21, 1851, and educated at the public schools; he became a student of arts at the University of Edinburgh, and was graduated M. A. in 1875, at the same time gaining a fellow- ship; he was appointed an instructor in physics and after three years took the degree of Doctor of Science in the In- partment of Mathematics and Physics. With the aid of a grant from the Rosal Society of London he made numerous researches on the discharge of electricity. In 1575 he was elected a Fellow of the i


Royal Society of Edinburgh; in 1881 he was appointed examiner in mathematics and physics to Edinburgh University; in 18$5 he was professor of physics at the University of Texas; he was founder of the Texas Academy of Science; in 1887 he received the degree of LL. D .. from the University of Michigan. In 1895 he was married at San Antonio, Tex .. to Heren Swearingen. From 1895 to 1897 he had charge of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, and is still a lecturer there. In 1896 he succeeded to property in and moved to the Province of Ontario. He is Secretary of the International Associe - tion for promoting the Study of Vector Analysis. He is author of "Principles of the Algebra of Logic," 1879: "Analysis of Relationship." 1882; "Physical Arith- metic." 1885; "Elementary Mathematical Tables," 1889; "Critical Account of Rain- making Experiments at San Antonio,


Texas." 1892. Address, Gowrie Grove, Chatham, Ont., Can.


MACFARLANE, Charles William:


Author, real estate operator; he was born in Philadelphia in 1850 and received his preparatory education in the Philadel- phia High School; he was graduated from the Lehigh University in 1876 as civil en- gineer; he took a post-graduate course in chemistry at the Lehigh University in 1877. and in history and economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1591; in 1893 he received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Freiburg in Baden. He is a member of American Economic Association, American Academy of Politi- cal and Social Science and St. Andrews Society: also the University and Con- temporary Clubs. Author of "Value and Distribution," 1899; "Canons of Criti- cism," 1SS5; also monographs on econom- ical subjects and contributions to econom- ical journals. Married Kathleen Self- ridge. Address, Fifty-second and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.


MACFARLANE, James R .:


Jurist; born April 20. 1858. at Towanda, Pa .: son of James and Mary (Overton) McFarlane: was graduated from Prince- ton in 1978; studied law at Towanda, Pa .. and admitted to the Bradford County. Pa., bar in ISSO. Removed to Pittsburg and was admitted to the Megheny Coun- ty bar March 2. 16%1. Was elected a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny County in 1902 for a term


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of ten years from the first Monday of January, 1903. Republican in politics. Member of the Crucible Club of Pittsburg. Address, 4724 Wallingford St., Pittsburg, Pa.


MACFARLANE, John Muirhead:


Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania since 1893; he was born in Kirkaldy, Scotland, Sept. 28, 1855; he was graduated from Edinburgh University with the degree of B. S. in 1880; D. Sc. in 1$$3; he was instructor in botany at Edinburgh University from 1s81 to 1891; Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1SS5: Secretary of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh from 1885 to 1890. He de- veloped the Botanical Gardens of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1893. and has been director since 1897; he aided in the foundation of the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania in 1897. Member of the Academy of Natural Science and Ameri- can Philosophical Society; he was Presi- dent of the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology from 1898 to 1899. Mar- ried in 1887 Emily Warburton. Author of numerous papers on botanical subjects. Address, Lansdowne, Pa.


MacINALL, Edward:


Druggist; he was born in Wilmington, Del., of Scotch-Irish stock, Dec. 23. 1851; educated in Friends' School and in the classical and literary departments of St. Mary's College; then by private tutors with a view of entering the priesthood. He entered Georgetown University for a short period; he was graduated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1868 with high honors. He entered the office of Dr. Henry F. Askew, and later the office of Dr. John K. Kane. brother of the distinguished Arctic Explorer. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane. He entered Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, in 1869, and became an office student of the late Prof. S. D. Gross. Prof. of Surgery. He entered com- mercial life in 1870; he had a large and successful wholesale and retail drug busi- ness, as successor to his father in Wil- mington. Del. He retired from business in 1879. Then resumed a course in medi- cine as a private office student of the late Prof. Wm. H. Pancoast, Prof. Anato- my, Jefferson Medical College. for one year. but never practiced. Afterward he went to Europe for a long sojourn, and event- ually made two prolonged tours of the world, since which time on his return has resided in Philadelphia. New York and Washington. He is a member of the Zeta


Phi Society and Alumni of the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy, American Pharmaceutical Association. In 1894 he was married to Annie, daughter of Paris M. and Letitia Lenox Mitchell, of Wil- mington, Del. Republican in politics. Address, Philadelphia, Pa.


MacIVER, Joseph:


Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia. he was born Aug. 5, 1871. in the city of Phila- delphia; educated in the public schools of that city; he entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company as a telegraph operator at the age of sixteen years; he has occupied responsible posi- tions with that company and the Postal Telegraph Cable Company; he was ap- pointed detective in office of District At- torney, January, 1902: he has been a delegate to State and other important conventions and is a member of thirty- ninth section school board; he was as a member of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1899 and 1901, and re-elected in November, 1902. Address, 2329 S. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa.


MACK, John M .:


Paving and electric light contractor; born in Philadelphia, Aug. 15, 1852: edu- cated in the public schools: in 1876 en- tered the field of contracting, which he developed especially in the fields of pav- ing and electric lighting. His enterprise and energy have led him to the formation and the leadership of many organizations, among the most important of which are the Mack Paving Company, the Pennsyl- vania Asphalt Company. and the Southern Electric Light and Power Company, of Philadelphia, of all of which he is Presi- dent. while he is a prominent Director in the Mack Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg. Of all of these except the last he was the founder and is the largest stockholder. He has also extensive in- terests in the West. from Pittsburg and Allegheny to Cleveland, Ohio. On the de- Velopment of electric lighting and power he took an active interest in it, and the Southern Electric Light and Power Com- pany, whose plant has been built since 1895, is one of the most perfect of its kind in the country. More recently he has organized the various asphalt com- panies into the Asphalt Company of Am- erica and has taken an active part in street railway management, arranging the merging into one company of all the rail-


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way systems of Philadelphia. He is a Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the consolidated companies and a Director of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Address, Oaklands, near Torresdale, Pa .; office 11 Broadway, New York city.


MacKAY-SMITH. Alexander. D. D .:


Bishop-Coadjutor of Pennsylvania; born in New Haven, Conn., and educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., at Trinity College, Hartford. and partly in England and Germany; studied theology partly at the General Theological Semi- nary in New York, and partly in private; was ordained deacon in December, 1876. by Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, and priest in December, 18;7, by. Bishop Pad- dock, of Massachusetts; he received the degree. of D. D. in 18$9 from Trinity Col- lege, and of S. T. D. from Hobart College in the same year; he was in charge of Grace Church, South Boston, from 1877 to 1880, afternoon preacher at St. Thomas's Church, New York, from isso to 1SSt; archdeacon of New York from 1887 to 1893, and rector of St. John's Church, Washington, from 1993 to 1902. as well as archdeacon of Washington from 1900 to 1902, in conjunction with his rectorship. He was elected Bishop-Coadjutor of Pennsylvania, and consecrated in


the Church of Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, on May 1. 1902. In 1$$6 he was elected Bish- op-Coadjutor of Kansas, but declined the office. He was also a delegate to the General Convention of the Church in 1898 and 1901. Address, 251 South Twen- ty-second St., Philadelphia, Pa.


MACKENZIE, Arthur Stanley:


Professor at the Bryn Mawr College; son of George A. Mackenzie, barrister, of Pictou, Nova Scotia; was born there Sept. 26, 1865; was educated at Dalhousie Uni- versity, Halifax. Nova Scotia (B. A., 1985). Post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University from 1859 to 1991: scholar and Fellow in physics from 18$9 to 1891; (Ph. D. 1994); Tutor in mathematics at Dal- housie University from 19$7 to 1889; as- sociate, associate professor, and profess- or of physics at Bryn Mawr College from 1891 to present time. Member of the Am- erican Physical Society and of American Philosophical Society. Published "The Laws of Gravitation." American Book Co., 1900. Papers in The Physical Re- view, Journal of the Franklin Institute,


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Proceedings of the American Philoso- phical Society. Address, Bryn Mawr, Pa.


MACKEY. Charles W .:


Lawyer and promotor; born in Frank- lin, Pa., Nov. 13, 1842; learned the print- ing trade, and as a boy undertook to edit and publish a newspaper. At eigh- teen be began the study of law, and in the following year joined the Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, being elected First Lieutenant. He was in every battle in Virginia except two, from his enlistment to Gettysburg; he was honor- ably mustered out in July, 1863, and soon after was appointed special agent by the United States Treasury for Eastern Vir- ginia and North Carolina. In this post he did excellent service and disbursed large sums: resigning in August. 1865. and re- suming the study of law, he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1565, and quickly came into active practice, being especially engaged in corporation law. He soon be- came active in railroad and other enter- prises, was the projector of various roads. and was made President of the Pennsylvania, Bradford and Buffalo and the Norfolk. Abemarle and Atlantic: Vice President of the Olean, Bradford and Warren and the Cincinnati and South- western, and Director of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad. He also organized the American Oxide Company, the Shen- ango Coal & Mining Company and a considerable number of other industrial enterprises, in several of which he served as President. He was the Republican candidate for Congress in 1884 and 1856. but was defeated on both occasions. AS an earnest Republican he took an active part in many political campaigns, and was a delegate to the National Convention of 1SS8. He is a member of several clubs and the Geographical Society of New York City, the Grosvenor Club of London. the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg, and the Nursery Club of Franklin. Address. Franklin, Pa.


MACKLAY. David:


Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Franklin County, was born in Greenvillage. Franklin Coun- ty. Pa .. Jan. 18, 1852; he was educated in the public schools, also Tuscarora and Chambersburg Academies, and was grad- uated from the Medicil Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1875; then returned to Greenvillage and suc-


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ceeded to his father's practice in which he continued until 1891, when he re- moved to Chambersburg, and associated himself with Dr. R. W. Ramsey in the practice of his profession; is Director of the Chambersburg Trust Company, and a member of the National, State and Coun- ty Medical Societies; he was elected County Treasurer of Franklin County in 1896 for a term of three years; served as Chairman of the Republican County Com- mittee three years; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, Chambersburg, Pa. .


MacNUTT, Ira:


Major United States Army; born in and apointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet, Mil- itary Academy July 1, 1566; Second Lieu- tenant Third Artillery June 15, 1870; First Lieutenant Ordnance June 13, 1878; Cap- tain June 14, 1886; Major Oct. 15, 1901. Address, Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Mass.


MACOMB, Henry Alexander:


Architect; Fellow American Institute of Architects; born at Fort Hamilton, Long Island. New York, April 5, 1845; son of Commodore William Henry Macomb. United States Navy, and grandson of Major Gen'l Alexander Macomb (Com- mander in Chief of United States Army, 1828-1841), and Brig. Gen'l Henry Stan- ton, United States Army. Educated at the Brooklyn College and Polytechnic Institute, which he left in 1863 to serve in the United States Navy till the close of the War of the Rebellion. Entered the office of Jas. H. Windrim, architect, Philadelphia, as a student in 1868, and continued with him as chief draughts- man till 1878, when he entered the office of Wilson Bros. & Co .. civil engineers, and architects, Philadelphia, as chief draughtsman till 1886, when he was ad- mitted to the firm of which he was ar- chitectural partner until its dissolution in 1890. Since that date he has practiced architecture in Philadelphia. under his own name. Address, 1603-4 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa.


MADDISON, Isabel. B. Sc., Ph. D .:


Secretary to the President and Reader in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr, Pa., since 1895: born in Eng- land and educated at the University College of South Wales, and at Girton College, University of Cambridge, Eng- land; came to America in 1892; studied


mathematics for two years at Bryn Mawr College and for one year at the University of Göttingen; has written ar- ticles on the "Theory of Singular Solu- tions of Differential Equations," and edited a "Handbook of British, Conti- nental and Canadian Universities." Ad- dress, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.


MADDUX. Daniel Parish:


Physician and Surgeon: son of Rev. John Burton and Mary Parish Maddux; born at Columbia, Pa., April 26, 1862; educated at public schools, Pennington Seminary, Nova Scotia, and Dickinson College, Pa .; was graduated in 1$$3 from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadel- phia, and served as interne in the Ward's Island Hospital, New York, and as a resident surgeon at the Cumberland Street Hospital. Brooklyn. N. Y. Locat- ed in Chester, Pa., in 1885. Member of Organon Medical Club of Chester, Home- opathic Medical Society of Delaware County, Homeopathic Medical Society of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, American Institute of Homeopathy. Treasurer of the Surgical and Gynecological Society of the Ameri- can Institute of Homeopathy, Alumni.As- sociation of Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, of which he has served as President; Saturday Night Club of Philadelphia, Penn Club of Chester and Alpha Boat Club. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Ex- aminers, and was a member of the Ches- ter Board of Examining Surgeons for United States Pensions; Senior Surgeon of the J. Lewis Crozer Hospital at Ches- ter, Pa. Address, Chester, Pa.


MADEIRA, Louis Childs:


Civil engineer and insurance agent; was born in Philadelphia, June 2, 1853. His education was received in the Episcopal Academy, of Philadelphia, and in the Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania, which he left to engage in business at the end of his sophomore year. For the three years following 1871 he was engaged as civil engineer on the Wilmington and Northern and the Berks and Lehigh Railroads, and from 1874 to 1877 was Assistant Engineer in the Dela- ware and Bound Brook Railroad. In 1877 he gave up civil engineering to engage in the insurance business as a member of the firm of Louis C. Madeira & Sons, of


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which his father was senior partner. He has since been engaged in this business. He is a Trustee of the Episcopal Acade- my, treasurer of the Philadelphia Fire Underwriters' Association, and of the gymnasium fund of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of numer- ous clubs. Since 1890 he has been a Di- rector of the University Athletic Asso- ciation, and Governor of the University Club since 1895. Address, 253 South Thirteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.


MAGEE, Christopher:


Jurist: born in Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 5. 1829; was graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1848 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1819; studied law in the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania and under preceptors, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1852. and to the Ale- gheny County and that of the State Su- preme Court in 1853. In 1856 he was elected to represent Allegheny County in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and in 1885 was appointed by Governor Pattison a Judge of Common Pleas Court No. 2 of Allegheny County to succeed the Hon John M. Kirkpatrick, resigned. He was elected to this office in the following year and served a two-year term with general satisfaction. A Democrat in political faith. he has received many nominations for office. though without success in the elections. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.


MAGHE, Christopher L .:


City official and railway President: born in Pittsburg, April 14. 1848; edu- cated in the Western University of Penn- sylvania; became a clerk in the Comn- troller's office; was made cashier of the Pittsburg Treasury in 1869, and in 1871 was elected City Treasurer; he was re- elected in 1874, and was for ten years Fire Commissioner, being for part of this time President of the commission. Dur- his active connection with the financial affairs of Pittsburg he reduced the city debt from $15.000.000 to $8,000,000. A Republican in politics, he has been twice Secretary of the State Committee, and served in every State convention from 1872 and every National convention from 1876. He was one of the supporters of Grant in 1880 and of Harrison against Blaine in 1892. Mr. Magee has been very active and successful in business affairs. his early investments being in natural gas, while he afterward became connect-


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ed with many business enterprises. In 1884 he bought the Times newspaper, then with 1.500 circulation, which he built up to over 60,000. He organized and be- came President of the Duquesne Trac- tion Company, is President of the Transvere Railway Company, and is a Director in several other Railway Com- panies, the Freehold Bank, the Western Insurance Company, the Pittsburg Trust Company, etc. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.




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