New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-20
THE O'S AND THE MACS.
LONG LIST OF EMINENT MEN WHO HAVE BORNE
ONE OF THE PREFIXEs
From The CHICAGO Tlmes.Hernld.

From The Chicago Tlmes-Herad.
1t is not surprising that Irishmen and Scotch.
should object the bill that has been introduced
Into Parliament by Daniel Macaleese. OF NORTH
Monaghan TO enable people OF Irish birth or ex
before their surnames." The right to bear that
prefix IS an honor which man inherits. aud the
1t may be a coincidence but the "Os" and the
Macs" have always been the foremost men of Ire
land ana Scotland for the last century or more
There IS an old Jingle in Ireland which runs
by Mac and
You always will know
True Irishmen. they say;
Both hot q ' anS Mac.
No Irshmen they.
This is somewhat OF an exaggeratlon. AS mat
in u majority i1Si S in ireland The Pail Mali Gazette
IA year ago published list Of the fifty most
The smiths, OF course. led in England ana scot
land, but there were five other names more preva-
lent than any "O' or Mac on the Irish list II
would seem that the Murphys are largely in the
lead in Erin, and next come Kelly. sullivan Walsh
family being that o; O'Brcn. These the other
sqrnames amons the MY SSG Gl po,ur no,a NJ,
Carthy. Gallagher. Doherty. Kennedy Lynch. Muir
ray quinn, Moore. Mclaughlin, Carroll, Connolly.
DAILY. Cornell. Wilson. Dunno, Brennan. Burke.
Collins. Campbell, Clarke, Johnson. Hughes. Far
rel, Fitzgerald, Brown; Martin Magulre. To!an'
Mahony Boyle. iIeay, Shea and White
The prominence OF the "O's'' and Macs" there
for o'Brien is sixth on the list. o'Nen tenth and
O'Donnen torty-fourth-only three out OF NIFTY
while OF Macs there are only Mccarthy. thr-
teenth, and Mclaughlin, twenty -hrs-0ut two-a
total Of five in forty for the ,O,s, ana ne Macs .
There "O's' IN the Scotch list Of hfty most
frequent names, while the Macs" number but SIX.
"O's' and Macs" are nearly as common IL the
United States az they are In Scotland or Ireland.
for the Irish and Scotch contributed a great share
In the building up OF the country when II was new:
tbe "SH ncas De AMY who have achieved fame
The list is rather long but few might DE meA-
First OF the Macs" one thinks OF William Mckin-
ley. Perhaps the most conspicuous statesmen OF
Treasury, and the Macdonald family, who have
ruled Canada; Alexander Mackenzie another
General Of the United States; Louis McI.ane. Sec
rotary OF State under Jackson; Thomas Mexican
sgner OF the Declaration; Johm, Mclean. Score
der Fillmore. and Robert McClelland. who had
John r. McCulioch. the famous English political
economist might be mentioned in this connection.
chiefly distinguished themselves. and some OF the
most eminent physicians and surgeons have borne
that patronymIc Among those whose ms names pes, are
D. Mcdaniel. George McCulloch. James II. Nc
Cleand. Alexander Macalister Donald Mac Alister
las Maclagan, John Macwhorter and Professor Nc
Vail. Some OF those who have achieved fame in
s st'. John Macsulloch, seoioslit William
lam lam Macure. pioneer American ecciogsi John +.
McIennOn anthropologst; James Macintosh and
James Mecosh, ,PhIlosophers; James Macbride,
botanlst, James Mccormick, William Cnrmchac 81
Macintosh and Robert McLachan. biologists And
there Is Cyrus H. Mccormick, the Inventor Of the
There have been many brave soldiers among the
Macs" George b MeClellan aud Marshal MacMahon
John Gsorrs wythA Robert l.. Alexander Men.