Charles Fraser MacLean

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Charles Fraser MacLean

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'''Charles Fraser MacLean''' (November 21, 1841 – March 20, 1924){{cite web | url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1923-24.pdf | title=OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES 1923–1924 | publisher=Yale University | date=August 1, 1924 | access-date=May 17, 2011 | archive-date=July 30, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730055312/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1923-24.pdf | url-status=dead }} was an American jurist.
'''Charles Fraser MacLean''' (November 21, 1841 – March 20, 1924){{cite web | url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1923-24.pdf | title=OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES 1923–1924 | publisher=Yale University | date=August 1, 1924 | access-date=May 17, 2011 | archive-date=July 30, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730055312/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1923-24.pdf | url-status=dead }} was an American jurist.


Born in [[New Hartford, New York]], he began attending [[Yale University]] as a junior in 1862. He graduated in 1864 and was a member of [[Skull and Bones]]. In 1866, he was the first person to be awarded a [[PhD]] in [[philosophy]] from an American institution.{{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C|access-date=5 August 2013|year=2005|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|page=ix}} His [[dissertation]] was ''A Critique of [[John Stuart Mill|John Stuart Mill's]] Examination of [[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|Hamilton's]] Philosophy''.{{cite book|title=Doctors of Philosophy of Yale University: With the Titles of Their Dissertations, 1861–1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3lKAAAAIAAJ|access-date=5 August 2013|year=1916|publisher=Graduate School, Yale University. |page=186}} In 1869 he earned his [[JUD]] at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|University of Berlin]]. His dissertation was ''De Jure Emigrandi''.{{cite book|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006557606|title=De jure emigrandi dissertatio inauguralis quam ... publice defendet|first=Charles Fraser|last=MacLean|date=1 January 1869|publisher=Typis expressit Carolus Feicht|via=Hathi Trust}}
Born in [[New Hartford, New York]], he began attending [[Yale University]] as a junior in 1862. He graduated in 1864 and was a member of [[Skull and Bones]]. In 1866, he was the first person to be awarded a [[PhD]] in [[philosophy]] from an American institution.{{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C|access-date=5 August 2013|year=2005|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|page=ix}} His [[dissertation]] was ''A Critique of [[John Stuart Mill|John Stuart Mill's]] Examination of [[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|Hamilton's]] Philosophy''.{{cite book|title=Doctors of Philosophy of Yale University: With the Titles of Their Dissertations, 1861–1915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x3lKAAAAIAAJ|access-date=5 August 2013|year=1916|publisher=Graduate School, Yale University. |page=186}} In 1869 he earned his [[JUD]] at the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|University of Berlin]]. His dissertation was ''De Jure Emigrandi''.{{cite book|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006557606|title=De jure emigrandi dissertatio inauguralis quam ... publice defendet|first=Charles Fraser|last=MacLean|date=1 January 1869|publisher=Typis expressit Carolus Feicht|via=HathiTrust}}


During the [[Franco-Prussian War]], MacLean was a war correspondent for the ''[[New York World]]''.{{cite news | title=EX-JUSTICE MACLEAN DIES AT AGE OF 82: Had Been on Supreme Bench From 1889 to 1909 – Held Various City Offices. | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=21 Mar 1924 | pages=19}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDygAAAAMAAJ | title=Bismarck in the Franco-German war, 1870–1871 | publisher=C. Scribner's sons | year=1884 | access-date=May 17, 2011 | author=Busch, Moritz | isbn=9780608360072 | authorlink=Moritz Busch}} He accompanied U.S. military observer General [[Philip Sheridan]] and acted as his interpreter. He was one of the first non-combatants to enter [[Paris]] following the surrender of the French and witnessed the signing of the [[Treaty of Versailles (1871)|Treaty of Versailles]]. He recounted the [[Battle of Sedan (1870)|Battle of Sedan]] and the capture of [[Napoleon III]] in his "The Surrender of an Emperor", published in ''The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum'' (1921).{{cite web|url=http://octopus.library.cmu.edu/books/OCLC/1487370/|title=CMU Libraries: Book: Liber scriptorum|publisher=}} He also interviewed [[Otto von Bismarck]], [[Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta]], [[Adolphe Thiers]], and [[Léon Gambetta]].
During the [[Franco-Prussian War]], MacLean was a war correspondent for the ''[[New York World]]''.{{cite news | title=EX-JUSTICE MACLEAN DIES AT AGE OF 82: Had Been on Supreme Bench From 1889 to 1909 – Held Various City Offices. | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=21 Mar 1924 | pages=19}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KDygAAAAMAAJ | title=Bismarck in the Franco-German war, 1870–1871 | publisher=C. Scribner's sons | year=1884 | access-date=May 17, 2011 | author=Busch, Moritz | isbn=9780608360072 | authorlink=Moritz Busch}} He accompanied U.S. military observer General [[Philip Sheridan]] and acted as his interpreter. He was one of the first non-combatants to enter [[Paris]] following the surrender of the French and witnessed the signing of the [[Treaty of Versailles (1871)|Treaty of Versailles]]. He recounted the [[Battle of Sedan (1870)|Battle of Sedan]] and the capture of [[Napoleon III]] in his "The Surrender of an Emperor", published in ''The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum'' (1921).{{cite web|url=http://octopus.library.cmu.edu/books/OCLC/1487370/|title=CMU Libraries: Book: Liber scriptorum|publisher=}} He also interviewed [[Otto von Bismarck]], [[Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta]], [[Adolphe Thiers]], and [[Léon Gambetta]].
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