A dictionary of American authors
Part 41
=McKinney, Mordecai.= _Pa._, _c._ 1796-1867. A jurist of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws.
=McLaren, William Edward.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated bishop in 1875, but prior to 1872 was a Presbyterian clergyman. Catholic Dogma the Antidote of Doubt; The Practice of the Interior Life.
=McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham.= _Il._, 1861- ----. A professor of American history at the University of Michigan from 1891. Life of Lewis Cass, _supra_. _Hou._
=Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria [Dargan].= _S. C._, _c._ 1840- ----. An educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes Riverlands; Helen Howard.
=McLellan, Isaac.= _Me._, 1806-1899. A verse-writer of New York city of note as a sportsman. His verse, once popular, is now nearly forgotten. The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian; Poems of the Rod and Gun (1883), with biographical sketch.
=McLeod, Alexander.= _S._, 1774-1833. A Reformed Presbyterian minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day. Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; American Christian Expositor, include his chief works.
=McLeod, Xavier Donald.= _N. Y._, 1821-1865. Son of A. McLeod, _supra_. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an Episcopal clergyman. Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, include the more important of his works.
=McMahon, John Van Lear.= _Md._, 1800-1871. A prominent lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an authority on the early history of the province.
=McMaster, Gilbert.= _I._, 1778-1854. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Duanesburgh, New York. The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for the Psalms; Moral Character of Civil Government.
=McMaster, Guy Humphrey.= _N. Y._, 1829-1887. A jurist and verse-writer of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum.
=McMaster, John Bach.= _L. I._, 1852- ----. A professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton College. Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution (with F. D. Stone). _Ap. Hou._
=McMillan, Conway.= _Mch._, 1867- ----. A professor of botany in the University of Minnesota from 1891. Twenty-Two Common Insects of Nebraska; The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.
=McMurtrie, Henry.= _Pa._, 1793-1865. An educator of Philadelphia. Lexicon Scientiarum is his principal work.
=McMurtrie, William.= _N. J._, 1851- ----. A professor of chemistry in the University of Illinois. Culture of the Sugar Beet; Culture of Sumac; Grape Culture in the United States, are among his publications.
=McNamara, John.= _I._, 1824-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska. Three Years on the Kansas Border; The Black Code of Kansas.
=McNaughton, John Hugh.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A verse-writer of Caledonia, New York, many of whose songs have been set to music, and proved extremely popular. Babble Brook Songs; Onnalinda, a romance in verse.
=Macomb, Alexander.= _D. C._, 1782-1841. An officer of prominence in the American army during the War of 1812, becoming major-general in command of the army in 1828. Treatise on Martial Law; Treatise on Practice of Courts-Martial; Pontiac, a drama. _See Memoir by G. H. Richards._
=Macon, John Alfred.= _Al._, 1851- ----. A journalist of New York city. Uncle Gabe Tucker. _Lip._
=McPherson, Edward.= _Pa._, 1830-1895. A journalist of Gettysburg, editor of The Tribune Almanac from 1877, and for some years American editor of the Almanach de Gotha. Political History of the United States during the Civil War; Political History of the United States during Reconstruction; Handbook of Politics.
=MacQueary, Howard.= _Va._, 1861- ----. A Universalist clergyman of Minneapolis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman in Ohio, but, on account of his denial of the Virgin birth of Christ, was tried for heresy in 1891, and suspended from the Episcopal ministry. Evolution of Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times, lectures on theological and sociological themes. _Ap._
=McSherry, James.= _Md._, 1819-1869. A lawyer of Frederick, Maryland. Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of James the First; History of Maryland.
=McSherry, Richard.= _W. Va._, 1817-1885. A physician of prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. Early History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; Health and How to Promote It, are his principal writings. _Ap._
=McTyeire= [măk-teer´], =Holland Nimmons.= _S. C._, 1824-1889. A Methodist bishop in Tennessee. Manual of Discipline; Duties of Masters; History of Methodism, are among his works.
=McVickar, William Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1827-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who became rector of Christ Church, New York city, in 1876. Life of Rev. John McVickar; City Missions. _Hou._
=Macy, Jesse.= _Ind._, 1842- ----. A professor of political science in Iowa College. Our Government; The English Constitution. _Mac._
=Madison, James.= _Va._, 1751-1836. The fourth President of the United States. The Reports of the Debates in the National Convention of 1788 are the most important writings of his earlier career. His complete works have been issued in six volumes. _See Lives by Rives, J. Q. Adams, S. H. Gay; History of the United States, Madison’s Administrations, by H. Adams._
=Maffit, John Newland.= _I._, 1795-1850. A once noted Methodist preacher and lecturer. Tears of Contrition; Pulpit Sketches; Poems.
=Magill, Mary Tucker.= _Va._, 1832- ----. Granddaughter of H. St. George Tucker, _infra_. An educator and fiction-writer of Winchester, Virginia. The Holcombes; Women, or Chronicles of the Late War; School History of Virginia; Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems. _Lip._
=Magoon, Elias Lyman.= _N. H._, 1810- ----. An eminent Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a lecturer and art connoisseur of liberal thought and wide attainments. Proverbs for the People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; Living Orators in America.
=Magruder, Allan Bowie.= 18-- - ----. The Bible Defended; Life of John Marshall, _infra_. _Hou._
=Magruder, Julia.= _Va._, 1854- ----. A novelist. Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; Princess Sonia. _Cent. Har. Lgs. Lip. Lo. S. Scr._
=Mahan= [ma̯-hăn´], =Alfred Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A distinguished officer in the United States navy whose masterly works upon sea power in history have received official recognition from both home and foreign governments. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1783-1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life of Admiral Farragut; Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain. _Ap. Lit. Scr._
=Mahan, Asa.= _N. Y._, 1799-1889. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Adrian College, 1860-1871, and after the latter date resident in England. Critical History of Philosophy; The Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in their Relations to Science; Critical History of the American Civil War. _Bar. Meth._
=Mahan, Dennis Hart.= _N. Y._, 1802-1871. A military engineer of distinction whose text-books have been widely used. Treatise on Field Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent Fortifications; an edition of Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture, with additions. _Wil._
=Mahan, Milo.= _Va._, 1819-1870. Brother of D. H. Mahan, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. The Exercise of Faith; History of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; Comedy of Canonization.
=Malcom, Howard.= _Pa._, 1799-1879. A Baptist clergyman and educator at one time prominent in Philadelphia. Nature and Extent of the Atonement; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; Travels in Southeastern Asia.
=Mallery, Garrick.= _Pa._, 1831-1894. An army officer in charge of the bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879. Calendar of the Dakota Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign Language among North American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; Israelite and Indian, a Parallel in Planes of Culture; Picture Writing of the American Indians, are among his important contributions to ethnology.
=Malone, Walter.= _Mi._, 1866- ----. A verse-writer of Memphis, Tennessee. Songs of Dark and Dawn.
=Maltby, Isaac.= _Ct._, 1767-1819. A Boston author who was general of militia. Elements of War; Courts-Martial and Military Law; Military Tactics.
=Manly, Basil.= _S. C._, 1825-1892. A Baptist clergyman and educator, professor in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. Kind Words Teacher; A Call to the Ministry; Bible Doctrine of Inspiration Defended.
=Manly, John Matthews.= _Al._, 1865- ----. Pre-Shakesperean Drama.
=Mann, Cyrus.= _N. H._, 1785-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Westminster, Massachusetts, 1815-41. Epitome of the Evidences of Christianity; History of the Temperance Reformation.
=Mann, Horace.= _Ms._, 1796-1859. A famous Massachusetts educator and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio, 1852-59, and for twelve years secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He entirely remodelled the school system of his State. Beside his twelve important annual reports on education, he published Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and Duties of Women. _See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the United States; Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System; Horace Mann, the Educator, by A. Winship._ _Le._
=Mann, Mrs. Mary Tyler [Peabody].= _Ms._, 1806-1887. Wife of H. Mann, _supra_, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody, _infra_. Flower People; Christianity in the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy (with E. Peabody); Life of Horace Mann; Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba. _Le. Lo._
=Mann, Matthew Derbyshire.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A physician, professor of gynæcology in the University of Buffalo, who has published a Text-Book on Prescription Writing, and edited The American System of Gynæcology.
=Mann, William Julius.= _G._, 1819-1892. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, author of Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. _See Memoir by E. T. Mann, 1893._
=Manning, Jacob Merrill.= _N. Y._, 1824-1882. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church, 1857-82. Helps to a Life of Prayer; Half Truths and the Truth; Not of Man, but of God; Sermons. _Hou._
=Mansfield, Edward Deering.= _Ct._, 1801-1880. Son of J. Mansfield, _infra_. A lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati. Utility of Mathematics; Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar of the United States; Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of General Scott; History of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs of D. Drake, _supra_; Popular Life of General Grant; Personal Memories. _Clke._
=Mansfield, Jared.= _Ct._, 1759-1830. A mathematician, professor at West Point, 1812-28, who published Essays: Mathematical and Physical.
=Mansfield, Lewis William.= _Ct._, 1816- ----. A writer of Cohoes, New York. The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country Letters; Country Margins.
=Manship, Andrew.= _Md._, 1824- ----. A Methodist evangelist of Philadelphia. Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories; Reminiscences from the Saddle-Bags of a Methodist Preacher; History of Gospel Tents and Experience.
=Manville, Mrs. Helen Adelia [Wood].= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. A verse-writer of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Heart Echoes, a volume of verse.
=Manville, Marion.= Daughter of Mrs. Manville, _supra_. _See Pope, Mrs._
=Marble, Manton.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A journalist of New York city, editor and proprietor of The World, 1862-76, and author of A Secret Chapter of Political History.
=March, Alden.= _Ms._, 1795-1869. A once prominent surgeon of Albany. Wounds of the Abdomen; Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations.
=March, Charles Wainright.= _N. H._, 1815-1864. A journalist and essayist of New York city. Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries; Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain.
=March, Daniel.= _Ms._, 1816-1902. A Congregational clergyman. Walks and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father’s House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Lessons in the Life of Joseph; Morning Light in Many Lands. _C. P. S._
=March, Francis Andrew.= _Ms._, 1825- ----. A philologist of distinction, professor at Lafayette College from 1856, and the successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American Language Association. Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the Roman Period; Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method of Philological Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language; Anglo-Saxon Reader. _Har._
=Marcy, Erastus Edgerton.= _Ms._, 1815-1900. A physician of New York city. Theory and Practice of Medicine; Theory and Practice of Homœopathy; Christianity and its Conflicts; Life Duties.
=Marcy, Henry Orlando.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A physician of Cambridge. Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia; professional translations from the Italian of Ercolani. _Ap._
=Marcy, Randolph Barnes.= _Ms._, 1812-1887. Brother of E. E. Marcy, _supra_. A brigadier-general in the United States army. Exploration of the Red River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border; The Prairie Traveller; Border Reminiscences. _Har._
=Marden, Orison Swett.= _N. H._, 1848- ----. A Boston writer whose collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front; Architects of Fate. _Hou._
=Marguerittes, Julie de.= _See Rea, Mrs._
=Markell, Charles Frederick.= _Md._, 1855- ----. A Maryland lawyer and journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.
=Markham, Charles Edwin.= _Or._, 1852- ----. An educator and verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.
=Markham, Jared Clark.= _Ms._, 1816- ----. An architect who designed the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments; Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.
=Markoe, Thomas Masters.= _Pa._, 1819-1901. A surgeon of New York city, professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a Treatise on Diseases of the Bones. _Ap._
=Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane].= _Ms._, 1816-1901. Wife of G. P. Marsh, _infra_. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; Life of George P. Marsh. _Scr._
=Marsh, George Perkins.= _Vt._, 1801-1882. A philologist of distinction who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the English Language; Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. _See Life by Mrs. Marsh, supra._ _Har. Scr._
=Marsh, John.= _Ct._, 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.
=Marsh, Othniel Charles.= _N. Y._, 1831-1899. A palæontologist, professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes; Dinocerata; Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.
=Marshall, Edward Chauncey.= _N. Y._, 1824-1898. An educator, inventor, and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.
=Marshall, Humphrey.= _Pa._, 1722-1801. A famous botanist of Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.
=Marshall, John.= _Va._, 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington; Writings upon the Federal Constitution. _See Lives by Van Santvord, 1854, Flanders, 1858, Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography._
=Martin, Edward Sandford.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A journalist of New York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours; Windfalls of Observation; Lucid Intervals. _Har. Scr._
=Martin, François Xavier.= _F._, 1764-1846. A New Orleans jurist, chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of Louisiana Laws; Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of Louisiana to 1814.
=Martin, Henry Newell.= _I._, 1848-1896. A biologist of note, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection (with W. A. Moale). _Ho._
=Martin, John Hill.= _Pa._, 1823- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia, legal editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its Vicinity; Delaware County.
=Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell].= _S._, 1807- ----. An educator of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include the larger part of her writings.
=Martin, William Alexander Parsons.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters; The Lore of Cathay. _Har._
=Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith].= _N. H._, 1805-1879. A writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.
=Martyn, William Carlos.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. Son of Mrs. Martyn, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. _Fu._
=Marvel, Ik.= _See Mitchell, D. G._
=Marvin, Enoch Mather.= _Mo._, 1823-1877. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way of the West.
=Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs].= _Ms._, 1823-1890. A verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. _Hou._
=Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur.= _Me._, 1844-1884. The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of verse. _Lo._
=Mason, David Hastings.= _Pa._, 1828-1903. A Chicago journalist who published a Short Tariff History of the United States. _Bai._
=Mason, Emily Virginia.= _Ky._, 1815- ----. A nurse in Confederate hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.
=Mason, George Champlin.= _R. I._, 1820-1894. An architect of Newport, Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; Reminiscences of Newport.
=Mason, John.= _E._, 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the Pequot War is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather in 1677. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra._
=Mason, John Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1770-1829. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters on Frequent Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles. _See Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten, 1856._
=Mason, Otis Tufton.= _Me._, 1838- ----. An anthropologist of note. The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians; The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. _Ap. Scr._
=Mather, Cotton.= _Ms._, 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather, _infra_. A famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, 1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the greater part of that period. He was a prolific author, publishing nearly four hundred works, large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia Christi Americana that his reputation rests. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armour of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death made Easie and Happy. His style is disfigured by pedantry and strained analogies, and is at all times far removed from simplicity, but the author is nevertheless easily seen to be intensely in earnest in his endeavours to be of service to his generation. _See Lives by S. Mather, 1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A. P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North American Review, July, 1840, April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature; Pond’s The Mather Family; Old Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward._
=Mather, Fred.= _N. Y_, 1833-1900. A pisciculturist of note, author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.
=Mather, Increase.= _E._, 1639-1723. Son of R. Mather, _infra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, and president of Harvard College, 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces. His style is much superior to that of his son. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Mather, Moses.= _Ct._, 1719-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Darien, Connecticut, from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; Election Sermons. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Mather, Richard.= _E._, 1596-1669. A Puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester, 1636-69. He was a man of large influence in the colony, and was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. _See Life by I. Mather; Tyler’s American Literature._
=Mather, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1706-1785. Son of C. Mather, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman of Boston who succeeded his father and grandfather as pastor of the North Church, but in 1741 became the head of a new church, of which he was pastor till his death. Among his writings are, Life of Cotton Mather, _supra_; Essay on Gratitude; America Known to the Ancients, an attempt to prove the Japhetic origin of the first inhabitants of the American continent. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._