GEN. C. D. MACDOUGALL DEAD
A Civil War Leader, Long Marshal
of Northern New York.
AUBURN, N.Y., May 25.--Gen. Clin-
ton Dugald MacDougall, who had been
seriously in Paris, died at noon to-
day. Funeral services will be held in
this city late in June, and the burial
will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
Gen. MacDougall, who was 75 years
old, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He
was the son of Dugald and Margaret
MacKendrick MacDougall. He was grad-
uated from Jordan Academy in 1853 and
received a commission as Captain of the
Seventy-fifth New York Infantry at the
opening of the civil war. He was made
Lieutenant Colonel of the 111th New
York Infantry in 1862, Colonel one year
later, and was brevetted a Brigadier
General of Volunteers at the end of the
war for "gallant and meritorious ser-
vices."
At the grand review in Washington in
1865 he was commander of the First Di-
vision of the Second Army Corps.
Gen. MacDougall was Postmaster of
Auburn from 1869 to 1873. He was a
member of the Forty-third and Forty-
fourth Congresses from 1873 to 1877,
was United States Marshal of the North-
ern District of New York from 1877 to
1885, and was a Presidential elector in
1888.
Gen. MacDougall in turn declined ap-
pointment as Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, as Commissioner of Patents,
and as Treasurer of the United States,
tendered to him in 1876.
In 1901 Gen. MacDougall again was
appointed United States Marshal for the
Northern District of New York, and
served until 1911, when he retired.
Gen. MacDougall married Eva Sabine
of Onondaga Valley in 1867. She died
in 1877. He married Miss Marianna Cook
of Auburn in Rome, Italy, in 1878.
Maintained by
Sue Greenhagen.
E-mail:
greenhsh@morrisville.edu