History of Allegheny, (Allegheny County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Bartley Campbell, playwright, was born in Allegheny city, Pa., Aug. 12, 1843. After two years of legal study he became a reporter, and in 1863-64 made Democratic speeches. He started the Evening Mail at Pittsburg in 1868, and the Southern Magazine in New Orleans, 1869. A year later he was official reporter of the Louisiana house of representatives. He began writing plays, in 1871, with Through Fire, Peril, Risks, Fate and The Virginian (1872); Gran Uale (1874); On the Rhine (1875); The Big Bonanza (1875); A Heroine in Rags, and How Women Love (1876); Clio (1878); Fairfax (1879); The Galley Slave (1879); Matrimony (1880); and White Slave, My Geraldine, Siberia, Paquita, make his list only partially complete. In 1886 he was obliged to give up active work as his brain became affected and be died at Middletown, N. Y. July 30, 1888.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Henry Hornblower, clergyman, was born in Newark, N.J., March 21, 1820; son of chief-Justice Joseph Coerton and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, A.B., 1838; A.M., 1841, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1841. He was a missionary in "Pines," N.J., 1843; was ordained by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, Jan. 30, 1844; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Paterson, N.J., 1844-71, and professor of sacred rhetoric, church government and pastoral theology at the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1871-83. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Rutgers college in 1860. He is the author of numerous articles and addresses on theological subjects, and was an assistant editor of the American edition of Lange's Commentaries. He died in Allegheny, Pa., July 16, 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Alexander Taggart McGill, jurist, was born in Allegheny, Pa., Oct. 20, 1843; son of Alexander Taggart and Eleanor A. (McCullough) McGill, and grandson of John and Mary (Taggart) McGill and of the Hon. George McCullough. He removed to Princeton, N.J., with his parents, on his father's appointment to a professorship in Princeton Theological seminary in 1854, was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867, and from the Columbia Law school, New York city, A.B., 1866, and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He settled in practice in Jersey City, N.J., in 1867; was counsel for the city of Bayonne, N.J., 1874-76; a representative in the state assembly from Hudson county, 1874-76; prosecutor of the pleas of Hudson county, 1878-83; and president of the county courts, 1883-87. He was appointed chancellor of the state of New Jersey by Governor Green, March 29, 1887, was re-appointed by Governor Werts in 1894, and unanimously confirmed by the senate, and served until his death. He was the Democratic candidate for governor in 1895, but was defeated by John W. Griggs. He received the degree of LL.D. from Princeton in 1891. He died in Jersey city, N.J., April 21, 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Melanchthon Williams Jacobus, educator, was born in Allegheny city, Pa., Dec. 15, 1855; son of Melanchthon Williams and Sarah (Hayes) Jacobus. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1877, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1881. He studied at the Universities of G?ttingen and Berlin, Germany, 1881-84, and was ordained by the presbytery of Chester, Oct. 15, 1884. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Oxford, Pa., 1884-91, and in 1891 was elected to the chair of New Testament exegesis and criticism at Hartford Theological seminary. He was made trustee of Lincoln university, Pa., in 1887; of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1890, and was Stone lecturer at Princeton Theological seminary, 1897-98. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lafayette college, Pa., in 1892. He is the author of: Stone Lectures (1900).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor