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promoted to the full rank of brigadier-general, to date from 1(3 July, 18G4, but survived only a few days. — Another son, Edwin Stanton, soldier, b. in"Carrollton, Ohio, 20 March, 1837; d. in Yank- ton, Dak., 11 Sept., 1873, was educated at the U.S. naval academy, but when the civil war began raised a company for the 31st Illinois regiment, of which his friend John A. Logan was colonel. He served with this regiment at Port Henry and Fort Donelson, where he was severely wounded. In his promotion he succeeded Gen. Logan and fol- lowed him in the command of his regiment, bri- gade, and division, throughout the Vicksburg and other campaigns under Grant, and in the Chatta- nooga and Atlanta campaigns, and the march to the sea under Sherman. He was brevetted briga- dier-general and major-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865, for his services in these campaigns. Gen. McCook was three times severely wounded, but survived the war. While acting governor of Dakota and presiding over a public meeting, he was shot and killed by a man in the audience. — Another son, Cliarles* Morris, b. in Carrollton, Ohio, 13 Nov., 1843 ; d. in Virginia, 21 July, 1861, was a member of the freshman class at Kenyon college when the war began, and volunteered as a private in the 2d Ohio regiment. He was killed at the battle of Bull Run, in sight of his father, who had volunteered as a nurse. — Another son, Jolin James, soldier, b. in Carrollton. Ohio, 22 May, 1845, was also a student at Kenyon when the war began, and after completing his freshman year en- listed in the 6th Ohio cavalry. He served through the war, attaining the rank of captain and aide-de- camp in September, 1863. He was brevetted ma- jor for gallant and meritorious services in action at Shady Grove, Va., where he was dangerously wounded, and lieutenant-colonel and colonel for his services during the war. Col. McCook is now (1898) practising law in New York city. — John's son, Edward Moody, soldier, b. in Steubenville, Ohio, 15 June, 1833, received a common-school education, and was one of the earliest settlers in the Pike's Peak region, where he went to practise law. He represented that district in the legisla- ture of Kansas before the division of the terri- tories. Mr. McCook was temporarily in Washing- ton just before the civil war, and, by a daring feat as a volunteer secret agent for the government, won such approbation that he was appointed in the regular army as 2d lieutenant of the 1st cav- alry, 8 May, 1861. He became 1st lieutenant, 17 July, 1862. His brevets in the regular army were 1st lieutenant, 7 April, 1862, for Shiloh, Tenn. ; captain, 8 Oct., 1862, for Perrysville, Ky. ; major, 20 Sept., 1803, for Chickamauga, Ga. ; lieutenant- colonel, 27 Jan., 1864, for service during the cav- alry operations in east Tennessee ; colonel, 13 March, 1865, for the capture of Selma, Ala., and also on that date brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious service in the field. He also was com- missioned brigadier-general of volunteers on 27 April, 1864, and brevetted major-general, 13 March, 1865. Gen. McCook's most difficult and danger- ous service was in penetrating the enemy's lines by way of diversion previous to Sherman's march to the sea. He resigned his commission in 1866 to ac- cept the appointment of U. S. minister to the Sand- wich islands, which he held until 1869. He was twice appointed governor of Colorado territory by President Grant. — -Another son of the first John, Anson George, soldier, b. in Steubenville, Ohio, 10 Oct., 1835, received a common-school education at New Lisbon, Ohio, and went while still a youth to California in an overland train. He remained on the Pacific coast several years, returned, and stud- ied law at Steubenville in the office of Stanton and McCook, and had just been admitted to the bar at the beginning of the civil war. On the first call for troops he entered the service as captain in the 2d Ohio infantry, and as such served in the first battle of Bull Run. At the reorganization of his regiment for three years, he was made major, and he subsequently became its lieutenant -colonel and colonel, serving in the Army of the Cumberland under Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He was also with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, command- ing a brigade part of the time, especially at the battle of Peach Tree Creek near Atlanta. When the regiment was mustered out at the expiration of its service he was made colonel of the 194th Ohio, ordered to the valley of Virginia, and as- signed to command a brigade. At the close of the war he was brevetted brigadier-general of volun- teers for gallant and meritorious services. From 1865 till 1873 he resided in Steubenville, Ohio, as U. S. assessor of internal reveiuie, and then re- moved to New York city. He was elected to con- gress from New York as a Republican, holding his seat from 1877 till 1883, and serving on the mili- tary committee. Later he was secretary of the U. S. senate. — Another son of John, Henry Christoi)her, clergyman, b. in New Lisbon, Ohio, 3 July, 1837, after learning the printer's trade, and teaching for several years, was graduated at Jeffer- son college. Pa., in' 1859. He studied theology privately and in Western theological seminary at Alleghany, Pa., and after serving for nine months as 1st lieutenant and chaplain in the army, held pastorates at Clinton, 111., and St. Louis, Mo. Dur- ing, this period he was active as a leader in Sun- day-school movements. In 1869 he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church of Philadel- phia, now known as the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Dr. McCook is vice-president of the Ameri- can entomological society, and of the Academy of natural sciences in Philaclelphia, in whose proceed- ings he has published numerous papers upon the habits and industry of American ants and spiders. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by La- favette in 1880. He is the author of " Object and Outline Teaching" (St. Louis, 1871); "The Last Year of Christ's Ministrv" (Philadelphia, 1871); " The Last Days of Jesus'" (1872) ; " The Tercente- narv Book," edited (1873); "The Mound-Making Ants of the Alleghanies " (1877) : " Historic Eccle- siastical Emblems of Pan-Presbyterianism " (1880) ; " The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas " (1880) ; " Honey and Occident Ants " (1882) ; "Tenants of an Old 'Farm " (New York, 1884); " The Women Friends of Jesus " (1884) ; " The Gos- pel in Nature " (Philadelphia, 1887) ; and " Amer- ican Spiders and their Spinning- Work " (1888). — Another son, Roderick Sheldon, naval officer, b. in New Lisbon, Ohio, 10 March, 1839 ; d. in Vine- land. N. J., 13 Feb., 1886, was graduated at the U. S. naval academy in 1859. He was appointed lieutenant, 31 Aug., 1861, lieutenant-commamler, 25 Dec, 1865, and commander, 25 Sept., 1873. During the civil war he took part in various en- gagements on the James river, in the sounds of North Carolina, and in both Fort Fisher fights, and commanded a battery of naval howitzers at New Berne, 14 March, 1862, where he was highly commended in the official despatches. In this conflict he received the surrender of a Confederate regiment of infantry, probably the only surrender of this character that occurred in the civil war. During his service on the monitors at Fort Fisher he seriously injured his health. His last service