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Rh in 1852. After spending one year on the mission in New York as assistant to his brother John, he was appointed to a chair at St. Mary's college, and became professor of moral theology and sacred scripture in 1857. In December, 1859, Pope Pius IX. made him the first president of the American college in Rome, which had just been founded by that pontiff. Here he presided with great success for several years, until he was appointed to the see of Louisville, Ky., in 1868. He has given much attention to the advancement of education in his diocese, and has been instrumental in establishing various convents and parochial schools.

McCLUNEY, William J., naval officer, b. about 1796 : d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 11 Feb., 1864. He was appointed midshipman in the U. S. navy, 1 .Jan., 1812, and was in the action between the " Wasp " and the " Frolic " on 18 Oct. of that year. He was commissioned lieutenant, 1 April, 1818, command- er, 9 Dec, 1839, and captain, VS Oct., 1851, and placed on the retired list, 21 Dec, 1861. He took part in the Mexican war, and in 1853 was ordered to command the " Powhatan," of Com. Perry's Ja- pan expedition. He returned to the United States in February, 1856, and after a brief respite was or- dered to New York on duty as general supervisor of the construction of the Stevens battery. In 1858 he was placed in command of the Atlantic squadron, which office he held until May, 1860. He was commissioned commodore, 16 July, 1862. McCLUNG, John Alexander, clergyman, b. in Washington, Mason co., Ky., 25 Sept.. 1804 ; d. in Niagara river, 7 Aug., 1859. He was a son of Judge William McClung, and a nephew of Chief- Justice Marshall. In 1823 he entered Prince- ton theological seminary, where he remained be- tween one and two years. He was licensed to preach in 1828, but he abandoned the pulpit, stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1835, prac- tising until 1849. He was again licensed to preach in 1851, and was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Indianapolis in 1851-7, and then of one in Mays- ville, Ky., until his death by drowning. During his career at the bar he frequently contributed to the press, and wrote "Sketches of Western Adventures " (Philadelphia, 1832). See " Additional Sketches of Adventure, Compiled by the Publishers, and a Bi- ography of McClung, by Henry Waller " (Coving- ton, Ky., 1872). — His brother, Alexander K., law- yer, b. in Mason county, Ky., about 1812 : d. in Jackson, Miss., 23 March, 1855, enlisted in the navy as midshipman, 1 April, 1828, but resigned, 29 Aug., 1829. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in Mississippi. He subse- quently served as a volunteer in the army during the Mexican war, attaining the rank of lieutenant- colonel, and being dangerously wounded at Monte- rey. He was appointed charge d'affaires in Bolivia by President Taylor, but resigned about two years before his death.- Col. McClung left behind him a brilliant reputation as an orator, but none of his addresses were published save a eulogy on Henry Clay, delivered at Jackson, Miss., in 1852.

McCLURE, Alexander Kelly, journalist, b. in Sherman's Valley, Perry co.. Pa., 9 Jan., 1828. In the earlier years of his life he divided his time between his father's farm and the village school, and at the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the tanner's trade. In 1846, on the urgent advice of his friend, the editor of the " Perry Freeman,'" to whose paper he had contributed, he began the publication of a Whig journal, the "Sentinel," at Mifflin, Pa. At the close of the first year he set up the type, and did the press-work, besides editing the paper, with the aid of a single apprentice. He sold the " Sentinel " in 1850, purchased an interest in the " Chambersburg Repository," became its editor, and made it one of the most noted anti- slavery journals in the state. In 1853 he was the Whig candidate for auditor-general, being the youngest man ever nominated for a state office in Pennsylvania. In 1855 he was a member of the convention that met at Pittsburg, Pa., and organ- ized the Republican party, and in the following year was a delegate to the National convention that nominated Fremont for the presidency. In 1856 he sold the " Repository,", quitted journalism, and shortly thereafter was admitted to the bar. In 1857-'8 he was chosen to the legislature, and in 1859 to the senate of Pennsylvania, over a Demo- cratic opponent from a strong Democratic district. He was a delegate to the National Republican con- ventions of 1860 and 1864, and in the former played a conspicuous part in inducing the delegation from his state to disregard their instructions for Simon Cameron and vote for Abraham Lincoln. He was chosen chairman of the Republican state committee, and organized and led his party in the canvass of that year. In 1862 he repurchased the " Cham- bersburg Repository," but in the burning of Cham- bersburg, in 1864, almost his entire property was destroyed. In 1868 he settled in Philadelphia, where he resumed the practice of the law. In 1872 he was chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the National convention that nominated Horace Greeley for the presidency, was chosen chairman of the state committee that supported his election, and was elected as an Independent Republican to the state senate. In the following year he was an independent candidate for the mayoralty of Phila- delphia, and came within nine hundred votes of being elected. During this year, with Frank Mc- Laughlin, he established the " Times," a daily newspaper, and since its foundation he has been its editor-in-chief. He has opposed machine power in party management and official incompetency and dishonesty in Philadelphia.

McCLURE, Alexander Wilson, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 8 May, 1808 ; d. in Canonsburg, Pa., 20 Sept., 1865. He was graduated at Andierst in 1827. and at Andover theological seminary in 1830, and after preaching at Maiden, Mass., two years, he was ordained there in 1832. He subse- quently was stationed at St. Augustine, Fla., where he labored successfully among the soldiers that were on duty there. In 1846 he returned to Bos- ton, and soon after began the publication of the "Christian Observatory," which he edited more than three years. He also assisted Dr. Parsons Cooke in conducting the " Puritan Recorder." In 1855 he became secretary of the American and for- eign Christian union, and labored for some time abroad. In 1859 he was disabled by illness. Dr. McClure was a prolific writer for the religious press, and puV)]ished, among other works, a tract called the " Life-Boat," which had a wide circula- tion ; another entitled " Four Lectures on Ultra Universalism" ; " A Series of Letters upon the Bible in the Public Schools," written in controversy with a Roman Catholic priest in Jersey City ; two vol- umes of the " Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England,'" in the series published by the Massa- chusetts Sunday-school society ; and " Translators Reviewed," giving a biographical sketch of each translator concerned in King .James's version (New York, 1853). This has been adopted by the board of publication of the Reformed Dutch church.

McCLURE, David, clergyman, b. in Newport, R. I., 18 Nov., 1748; d. in East Windsor, Conn., 25 June, 1820. He was graduated at Yale in 1769.