MW’KENDREE COLLEGE

Adair's New Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 18
At Lebanon, Mll., founded in 1828 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was first known as Lebanon Seminary and opened in 1830. Abraham Lincoin helped to secure a new charter in 1839 which gave the institution university privileges. The courses provided are scientific, music, law and graduate. A.B. and B.S.S. degrees are conferred. Students. 125; teachers. 18. 1922-1923, MW?KENNA, JOSEPH (1843), American jurist; 6. in Philadelphia. In 1855 lhe moved to California, graduating from Benicia Collegiate Institute in ‘1865, and was admitted to the bar. A istant district attorney of Solano ber of 50th, 51st and 52nd Congre ; resigned, 1893, to become U. 8. circuit judge of Ninth Federal Dist.; resigned in 1897 when appointed U. S. attorney general and succeeded Justice Field, retired, as a ociate justice of U. S. Supreme Court. M’KENNA, RT. HON. REGINALD (1863), Eng. barrister and esate educated King’s Coll., London, an Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Liberal M.P. cial secretary of the Treasury, 1905; president of Board of Education, 19078; first lord of the Admiralty, 1908-11; home secretary, 1911-15; chancellor of the Exchequer, 1915-16, and, as such, won fame for his budget of Sept., 1915, which was recognized as an able attempt to deal with the financial conditions arising out of the war. He introduced the New War Loan in June, 1915; retired from politics to take up chairmanship of the London Joint Stock and Midi and Bank, 1919.. M’KENNA, STEPHEN (1888), Eng. novelist; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; member of government mi ion to U. S., 1917; works include Shewla Intervenes, 1913; The@Sicth Sense, 1915; Sonia, 1917, Midas and Son, 1918; Sonia Married, 1919, Lady Lilith, 1920.
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