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the Austrian mission, as well as President Fillmore's offer of the recordership of the general land-office, and during the civil war was in charge of a recruiting post near I'crre Haute, Indiana. He was a presiden- tial elector for Lincoln and Johnson in 1865 ; was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1868 and 1876, framing the platform of the former, and was judge of the fifth Indiana circuit court, 1867-69. In 1877 he was appointed secretary of the navy in President Hayes's cabinet, resigning in 1881 to become chairman of the American committee of the Panama Canal Company. He is the author of : "The Papacy and Civil Power" (1877) ; "History of the Protective Tariff" (1888); "Footprints of the Jesuits" (1894), and "Recollections of Sixteen Presi- dents from Washington and Lincoln" (2 vols. 1894). He died in Terre Haute, In- Giana, February 9, 1900.

Ladd, Catherine, born in Richmond, Vir- ginia. October 28, 1809, daughter of James owd Nancy (Collins) .Stratton, and grand- daughter of James and Catherine (Foulk) Collins, of Philadelphia ; her education was acquired in the schools of her native city ; in 1828 she became the wife of G. W. Ladd. a painter of portraits and miniatures; she established and was principal of a boarding school at W'innsborough, Fairfield county, South Carolina, for twenty years, covering the period between 1841 and 1861, she won fame as a writer, beginning her career in 1828, and in addition to articles on art and education, wrote numerous stories and poems for the "Floral Wreath" and other periodicals, and in 1851. through the press, ifged the necessity of procuring white labor and of engaging in the manufacture of cot-

ton in South Carolina ; during the progress of the civil war she nursed the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, and she is said to have been the designer of the first Confederate flag; at the close of the war she resumed her work of teaching; in 1880 she removed to a farm in Fairfield county, near \\"iniisl)orough. South Carolina, where she spent the remainder of her days ; her death occurred at Buena Vista, Fairfield county, Stiuth Cari)lina, January 31, 1899.

McCabe, John Collins, born in Richmond, Virginia, November 12, 1810; his first posi- tion after leaving the school-room was in one of the banks of Richmond, and subsequently he prepared for the priesthood under the in- struction of Bishop Meade, was ordained in 1845, ^"d served as rector of Christ Church, Smithfield, \'irginia, from 1845 ^o 1850, and of St. John's, in Elizabeth City parish, Hampton, Virginia, from 1850 to 1855; he made abstracts from the parish registers for an "Early History of the Church in Vir- ginia" and published in the "Church Regis- ter" sketches of many of the parishes. He transferred his manuscript to Bishop Meade for use in compiling his "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia" (1857) ; he served as chairman of the \'irginia state yellow fever committee in 1855; in the fol- lowing year he removed to Maryland, and from 1856 to 1859 was rector of a church in Baltimore, and from 1859 to 1861 was rector o; a church in Anne Arundel county ; from iS6i to 1863 he served as chaplain of a \'ir- ginia regiment in the Confederate army, and from 1862 to 1865 filled the same office in Libby Prison, Richmond ; at the close of the war he returned to Maryland, and offi- ciated as pastor of St. Matthew's Church,