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MACON. 643 Mcpherson. are represented by large cotton and knitting mills, lumber mills, foundries and machine shops, flouring mills, etc. ilacon was incorporated as a town in 1823, having been settled shortly be- fore, and in 1832 received a city charter. Its present government is administered under a charter of 1893, which provides for a mayor, chosen every two years, who appoints, with the consent of the council, the members of the fire and police department; and a unicameral coun- cil which controls elections to the other admin- istrative offices. Population, in 1890, 22.746; in 1900, 23,272. MACON, A city and the coimty-seat of Xoxu- bee County, iliss., 110 miles east by north of Jackson; on the Xoxubee River, and on the Mo- bile and Ohio Kailroad (Map: Mississippi, H 4). It is the centre of a region largely interested in cotton-growing, and has some industrial estab- lishments, the most important being cottonseed oil mills. Population, in 1890, 156.5; in 1900, 2057. MACON. A city and the coimty-seat of Ma- con County. JIo., 70 miles west by south of Quincy, 111. ; on the Chicago, Burlington and yuincy and the Wabash railroads (Map: Mis- souri," D 2). It has the county insane asylum, a fine court-house, and private educational in- stitutions. The city is the centre of a fertile agricultural section having coal and timber, and there are flour mills, carriage and wagon factories, foundries and machine shops, and man- ufactories of shears, dishwashing machines, bricks, cigars, etc. The water-works and electric light plant are owned by the municipality. Popu- lation, in 1890, 3371; in 1900, 4068. MACON, Nathaniel (1758-1837). An Ameri- can political leader. He was born in Warren County. X. C, of Huguenot parentage, and was educated at the College of Xew Jersey (Prince- ton). When the Revolutionary War broke out, he left college and enlisted as a volunteer. He was present at the capture of Charleston by the British and at the battle of Camden, and was with Cireene in his retreat across Carolina. He left the army in February, 1781. to take a seat as Senator in the Legislature, in which he served until December, 1785. In 1780 he was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress, but declined to serve, being opposed to the State's sending delegates to the old Congress. He vig- orously opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution by the State of Xorth Carolina on the ground that it conferred too much power on the general Government. In 1791 he ac- cepted a seat in Congress, in which he served without interruption until 1815. when he was transferred to the United States Senate. The Republican victory of 1801 led to his election to the Speakership of the House, a position which he filled acceptably until 1806. While a member of the Senate. Macon served as president pro tern, from 1825 to 1827. Jn politics he was a .Jeflfer- sonian Republican of the strict construction school. In 1828 he retired from the United States Senate of his own accord, and until his death in 1837. lived in seclusion on his plantation, except that in 1835 he served as chairman of the Xorth Carolina Constitutional Convention, and in 1836 was a Presidential elector. A biographical sketch of Macon was prepared by E. R. Cotton (Balti- more, 1840). Consult also the American His- torical Review (Xew York, 1902). MACONNAIS, ma'ko'na'. The name of an ancient district in Burgundy, corresponding to the present Arrondissement of Mucon, in the French Department of Saone-et-Loire. MACOBIS, nia-ko'ris. A seaport of the Re- public of Santo Domingo, situated on the south coast of the island of Haiti, on the Bay of Dos Rios, 43 miles east of Santo Domingo. It is the seat of a United States consular agent. MACOtTN, ma-koon', John (1832—). A Canadian botanist and naturalist, born and edu- cated in Ireland. He came to Canada in his nineteenth year, and in 1868 he was appointed professor of botany and geology in Albert College, Belleville, but resigned his professorship in 1879 in order to accept Government work in connection with an expedition to ascertain the natural resources of part of the Xorthwest Territories. Subsequently he was employed by the Canadian Government in other scientific work in his de- partment. In 1882 he was appointed botanist to the Geological and Xatural History Survey of Canada, and in 1887 was made assistant director of the survey. Several foreign and Canadian learned societies admitted him to honorary mem- bership. In addition to numerous scientific papers and reports he wrote: Manitoba and the (heat yorthivcst (1882); and The Forests of Canada and Their Distribution (1895). MACOYA, ma-ko'ya, or Macaiiiba Palm. A kind of palm. See Macaw Tkee. McPHEK'SON. A city and the county-seat of JlcPherson County, Kan., 153 miles west by south of Topeka; on the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads ( Map : Kansas, E 3 ) . It is the seat of MePherson College (German Baptist) ; and there are fine court house, opera house, and high school buildings. The city is the commercial centre for important agricultural, dairying, and stock-rais- ing interests, and has grain elevators, flour mills, etc. Population, in 1890, 3172; in 1900, 2996. MACPHERSON, Sir David Lewis (181896). A Canadian statesman, born September 12, 1818, at Inverness, Scotland. He was educated there at the Royal Academy. Emigrating to Ontario in 1835, he 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 (1S07) to the Dominion Senate, of which he w-as elected Speaker in 1880. In 1883 he resigned to become Minister of the Interior, a position which he held till 1885. For his services he was knighted in 1884. His publications consist of pamphlets rela- tive to finance, such as Banking and Currency lISOO). He died August 16, 1896. Mcpherson, edw.rd (i8.30-n5). 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 1858 and again in 1860 was a Republican member of Congress. He was Deputy Commissioner of Internal Rev-