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74 ed and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. When he had been about five years in prison he became religious, but after he was pardoned, in March, 1864, he returned to his evil practices. When reduced to poverty, he found a friend in a missionary, who aided him to find work, and re- awakened his religious convictions. After repeated relapses, he entered the Methodist church, and in October, 1872, opened a mission called the " Help- ing Hand " in Water street. He was very success- ful in arousing religious feelings in the degraded, assisted by his wife, Maria, who had been his com- panion in vice. In 1882 they opened the '• Cre- morne Mission," and in June, 1883, he began the publication of a weekly called " Jerry McAuley's Newspaper." See " Jerry McAuley, his Life and Work," an autobiography, edited by the Rev. Robert M. Ofibrd (New York, 1885).

MACBRIDE, James, botanist, b. in Williams- burg county, S. C, in 1784; d. in Charleston, S. C, in 1817. He was graduated at Yale in 1805, and then studied medicine. Settling in Pineville, S. C, he practised his profession for many years, but later removed to Charleston, where he died of yellow fever. Dr. Macbride was an ardent devotee of botany, and contributed papers on that science to the *' Transactions of the Linnaean Society " and elsewhere. His name was given by Dr. Stephen Elliott to the Macbridea pulcra, a genus found in St. John's, Berkeley, S. C, of which but two species are known to exist. This same authority dedicated the second volume of his " Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia " (Charles- ton. 1824) to Dr. Macbride.

McBRIDE, James Henry, soldier, b. in Ken- tucky about 1815 ; d. in Pocahontas, Ark., in the autumn of 1862. He studied law, and practised in the courts of Missouri, whither he removed in 1845. When the civil war began he joined Gen. Sterling Price in raising the state guard of Missouri, re- cruited a brigade, and was afterward commissioned as brigadier-general in the Confederate service. In the counter-attack on Gen. Lyon's force at Wilson's Creek he led the infantry on the Confederate left.

McCABE, James Dabney, clergyman, b. in Richmond, Va., 15 April, 1808 : d. in Baltimore, Md., 1 Aug., 1875. He entered the Methodist min- istry at the age of twenty-one, but afterward con- nected himself with the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1856 became associate rector of St. Paul's church in Baltimore. He afterward was rector of other parishes in Maryland, and twice de- clined a bishopric. He edited the " Olive Branch," and also the " Odd-Fellows' Magazine," and pub- lished a " Masonic Text-Book." — His brother, John Collins, clergyman, b. in Richmond, Va., 12 Nov., 1810 : d. in Chambersburg, Pa., 26 Feb., 1875, left school early, and became a clerk in a bank. He contributed a poem to the first number of the " Southern Literary Messenger," formed a friend- ship with its editor, Edgar A. Poe, and wrote con- stantly for it and other magazines poems, essays, and papers on colonial history. In 1845 he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and after being rector at Smithfield. Va., for five years, took charge of a parish in Hampton, and while there prosecuted researches among parish registers and family archives into the early history of his church in Virginia, and published papers on the subject, but, on the announcement of Bishop William Meade's work, handed over his materials to Dr. Meade. At this time he received from the college of William and Mary the degree of D. D. In 1855 he was chairman of the state yellow fever committee. He was rector of a church in Balti- more, Md., in 1856-9, and then in Anne Arundel county, Md., till 1861, when he became chaplain of a Virginia regiment of Confederate troops. From 1862 till the close of the war he was chaplain of Libby prison in Richmond. In 1865-'7 he had charge of a church in Bladensburg, Md., then went to Middleburg, Del., and left that parish in 1873 to become rector of a church in Chambersburg. Dr. McCabe lectured frequently on literary topics, and delivered memorial addresses and poems, many of which were published. A volume of his early poem? was printed under the title of " Scraps " (Richmond, 1835). — James Dabney's son, James Dabney, author, b. in Richmond, Va., 30 July, 1842 ; d. in Germantown, Pa., 27 Jan., 1883, was educated at the Virginia military institute. Dur- ing the secession crisis he published a pamphlet en- titled " Fanaticism and its Results," by " A South- erner" (Richmond, 1860). A war-story entitled " The Aide-de-Camp," was issued in book-form in 1863. and three plays of martial tenor were per- formed at the Richmond theatre in 1862-3. In the winter of 1863 he published " The Bohemian," a Christmas book, to which his wife and Charles P. Diinitry also contributed, and in 1863-'4 he edited the "Magnolia Weekly." His "Sword of Harry Lee " and other war-poems were very popular. He published a " Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson," by "An Ex-Cadet " (Richmond, 1863 ; enlarged ed., 1864) ; " Memoir of Gen. Albert S. Johnston " (1866) ; and " Life and Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee " (New York, 1867), in which he disparages Jefferson Davis, and ascribes the loss of the southern cause to his blunders. He also made a compilation of the romance and humor of the war entitled " The Gray- Jackets" (1867). He was the author of several hundred short stories, essays, poems, and transla- tions. His works include " Planting the Wilder- ness " (Boston, 1869) ; " History of the Late War between Germany and France " (1871) ; " Lights and Shadows of New York Life" (New York, 1872) ; " The Great Republic " (1872) ; and a " His- tory of the Grange Movement," which, with some of his subsequent works, was published under the pen-name of " Edward Winslow Martin " (Chicago, 1874). His later publications are " Paris by Sun- light and Gaslight" (Philadelphia, 1875); ""Cen- tennial History of the United States " (Philadel- phia, 1875) ; " Pathways of the Holy Land " (1877) ; "History of the Tiirko-Russian War" (1879); " Our Young Folks Abroad " (Philadelphia, 1881) ; and "Our Young Folks in Africa" (1882).— A son of John C, William Gordon, educator, b. near Richmond, Va., 4 Aug., 1841. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1861, and immedi- ately enlisted in the Confederate army, and served throughout the civil war, for the first year as a private, and afterward as a captain of artillery. After the war was ended he established the university school at Petersburg. Va., of which he is still (1888) head-master. While in the army he contributed many poems to southern magazines, and after returning to civil life published essays, reviews, sketches, and translations from mediaeval Latin poetry. He translated and revised " Aids to Latin Orthography," from the German of Wilhelm Brambach (New York, 1872), edited " Ballads of Battle and Bravery" (1873), and is the author of "The Defence of Petersburg, Campaign of 1864-'5" (Richmond, 1876). He has also published a "Latin Grammar" (Philadelphia, 1883), edited "Caesar" (Philadelphia, 1886), and is engaged (1888) in preparing an edition of " Horace's Works." McCaffrey, John, clergyman, b. in Emmettsburg, Md., 6 Sept., 1806 ; d. there, 25 Sept.,