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96 riodicals, he has published "Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation," with Dr. George Dickie (Edinburgh, 1855) ; "Examination of Mill's Philoso- phy, being a Defence of Fundamental Truth " (New York, 1866) ; " Laws of Discursive Thought, being a Treatise on Formal Logic " (New York, 1869) ; " Christianity and Positivism " (1871) ; " The Scot- tish Philosophy, Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson to Hamilton " (1874) ; "A Reply to Prof. Tyndall's Belfast Address " (1875) ; "The Development Hypothesis " (1876) ; and " The Emo- tions " (1880). He completed in 1886 the " Philo- sophical Series " which he had begun in 1882, and which includes " Criteria of Divers Kinds of Truth as opposed to Agnosticism " (1882) ; " Energy, Effi- cient and Final Cause," " Development : What it Can Do and What it Cannot Do," and " Certitude, Providence, and Prayer " (1883), " Locke's Theory of Knowledge, with Notice of Berkeley." " Agnos- ticism of Hume and Huxley, with Notice of the Scottish School," and " Crilieisra of the Critical Philosophy" (1884); "Herbert Spencer's Philoso- phy as Culminating in his Ethics " and " The New Departure in College Education " (1885) ; and " Psy- chology, the Cognitive Powers" (1886). In 1887 Dr. McCosh combined the philosophic series in " Realistic Philosophy " (2 vols.) and " Psychology of the Motive Powers," his aim being to formulate an American philosophy of realism.

McCOSKRY, Samuel Allen, P. E. bishop, b. in Carlisle, Pa., 9 Nov., 1804 : d. in New York city, 1 Aug., 1886. He entered the U. S. military acade- my in 1820, but after two years resigned and en- tered Dickinson college, where he was graduated in 1825. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised for six years in his native place. In 1831 he began the study of theology preparatory to orders in the Protestant Episcopal charch. He was ordained deacon in Christ church, Reading, Pa., 28 March, 1833, by Bishop Henry V. Onderdonk, and priest, in the same church, 13 Dec, 1833, by the same bishop. A year later he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's church, Philadelphia, where he remained for two years. He was then elected to be the first bishop of Michigan, and was consecrated in St. Paul's church, Philadelphia, 7 July, 1836. He took up his residence in Detroit, Mich., became rector of St. Paul's church in that city, and held the post for twenty-seven years. He received the degree of D. D. from Columbia and from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1837, and the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Oxford, England, in 1852. Bishop McCoskry resigned his jurisdiction in March, 1878, on the plea of feeble health and the iniirmities of age, and asked the bisliops to release him. Soon afterward grave allegations touching his moral character became public ; whereupon he abandoned his diocese and left the United States, thus pre- venting any investigation of the charges against him. The ' house of bishops, under the circum- stances, acting as a court, at a meeting held in New York city, 3 Dec, 1878, deeming his course an acknowledgment of his guilt, formally deposed him from the sacred ministry and all the functions thereof. See "Journal of Gleneral Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church for 1880."

McCOWN, John Porter, soldier, b. in Tennes- see about 1820. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1840, and appointed 2d lieu- tenant in the 4th artillery. He became 1st lieu- tenant, 30 Sept., 1843, was regimental quarter- master in 1847-'8, and was brevetted captain for bravery at Cerro Grordo, 18 April, 1847. He re- signed from the U. S. army, 17 May, 1861, and. entering the Confederate service, became a briga- dier-general. He commanded at New Madrid, Mo., in March, 1862, but evacuated that town af- ter its investment by Cen. Pope.

McCOY, Isaac, clergyman, b. in Fayette county, Pa., 13 June, 1784; d. in Louisville, Ky., 21 June, 1846. In 1790 he removed with his father to Shelby county, Kj., and received a limited educa- tion. He went to Vincennes, Ind., in 1804, in 1805 to Clark county in that state, and in that year was licensed to preach as a Baptist. On 13 Oct., 1810, he was ordained pastor of the church at Maria Creek, Clark co., Ind., where he remained eight years, making, meantime, occasional mis- sionary tours in the surrounding country. In 1817 he was appointed a missionary, and labored in the western states and territories. In 1842 he became the first corresponding secretary and general agent of the American Indian mission association at Louisville, Ky. He published " History of Baptist Indian Missions " (Washington, D. C, 1840).

McCRAE, William, Canadian senator, b. in Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, 10 Nov., 1810. He stud- ied law and became a barrister in 1850, was mayor of Chatham, Ontario, in 1859, member of the legis- lative council in 1862, and Dominion senator in 1867. He was appointed district judge of Algoma in 1870, and revising-officer in 1885.

McCRARY, George Washington, statesman, b. in Evansville, Ind., 29 Aug., 1835; d. in St. Jo- seph, Mo., 23 June, 1895. In 1836 he was taken to that part of the west that later became the state of Iowa. He was educated in a public school and in an academy, and studied law in Keokuk, Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar in 1856. He was elected to the legislature in 1857, and served in the state senate from 1861 till 1865, being chairman of the committee on military affairs. In 1868 he was elected to congress as a Republican, and served by successive re-elections until 3 March, 1877. On 7 Dec, 1876, Mr. McCrary introduced into congress the bill that was the first step in the legislation for creating the electoral commission. He was one of the first to support the Republican position in the Florida case, and spoke before the commission against the right of congress to go behind the re- turns. When President Hayes formed his cabi- net, Mr. McCrary was chosen secretary of war, 12 March, 1877, but resigned in order to accept a judgeship of the U. S. circuit court, to which he was appointed in December, 1879. He also re- signed tills office in March, 1884, and removed from Keokuk, Iowa, to Kansas City, Mo., where he practised law, and was general consulting counsel of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company. He was the author of " The American Law of Elections " (Chicago, 1875).

McCREA, Jane, b. in Bedminster (now Laraington), N. J., in 1753 ; d. near Fort Edward, N. Y., 27 July, 1777. She was the second daughter of Rev. James McCrea, a Presbyterian clergyman of Scotch descent, whose father, William, was an elder in White Clay Creek church, near Newark, Del. After his death she made her home with a brother at Port Edward. No event, either in ancient or modern warfare, has received more versions than that of her death. It has been commemorated in story and in song, and narrated in grave histories in as many different ways as there have been writers on the subject. The facts appear to be as follows: David Jones, her lover, an officer in Burgoyne's army, then lying four miles from Fort Edward, sent a party of Indians under Duluth, a half-breed, to escort his betrothed to the British camp, where they were to be at once married by Chaplain