Murdock M. McLeod (Hinds County)
M. M. McLeod
State House: 1884-1885
Secretary of State: Oct-Nov 1873
Born: c. 1847 in Ohio
Died: December 1895 in Aberdeen, MS
Attorney who served as Jackson’s city clerk. Most commonly referred to as M. M. McLeod. In October 1873, Governor Ridgley Powers appointed him Secretary of State, a position he resigned only weeks later. Listed on the 1880 census in Jackson with wife Caledonia (“Callie”). Callie died in 1907, and the Clarion-Ledger called her “one of the wealthiest negro women of the south.”
Links:
Memorial on Find A Grave
"Freemasonry in Mississippi" illustration
Vicksburg Herald, 18 Nov 1873
Daily Mississippi Pilot, 29 Jul 1875
Clarion-Ledger, 20 Aug 1879
Clarion-Ledger, 26 May 1880
Clarion-Ledger, 11 Oct 1882
Daily New Mississippian, 4 Feb 1884
State Ledger, 14 Mar 1884
State Ledger, 25 Apr 1884
Vicksburg Evening Post, 26 May 1884
Aberdeen Examiner, 29 May 1884
State Ledger, 17 Oct 1884
Weekly Commercial Herald, 25 Sep 1885
Clarion-Ledger, 21 Jul 1886
Hinds County Gazette, 30 Oct 1886
Weekly Democrat, 6 Feb 1889
Yazoo Herald, 6 Jun 1890
Clarion-Ledger, 5 Jul 1890
Clarion-Ledger, 2 Sep 1891
Vicksburg Evening Post, 25 Apr 1892
Clarion-Ledger, 7 Jun 1894
Weekly Clarion-Ledger, 13 Dec 1894
Clarion-Ledger, 9 Mar 1895
Natchez Democrat, 4 Dec 1895
Clarion-Ledger, 4 Dec 1895
Clarion-Ledger, 7 Dec 1895
Weekly Clarion-Ledger, 1 Apr 1897
Clarion-Ledger, 18 Apr 1907