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first appeared in the "Montreal Gazette," r.nd was afterwards re])roduced in many newspapers in England and the United States. After the war he returned to Charles- town (now in West Virginia), but the "test oath" provisions would not admit of his practicing his profession until 1870, when he- forined a law partnership with Judge Thomas B. Green, afterwards president of the supreme court of appeals of West \"ir- ginia. In 1884-86 he was a member of the legislature, and in that body he was the im- portant factor in defeating the election of a Standard Oil Company official as a United States senator, and his speech on that occa- sion was widely disseminated. On March 5, 1887, he was appointed United States senator by Governor Wilson. On Decem- ber 5. 1S89, on the death of Judge Green, of the supreme court of appeals, he was ap- pointed to fill the position, to which he was elected at the end of the term. After leav- ing the bench he lived a retired life. In 1875 he delivered the ode at the semi-cen- tennial anniversary of the University of Vir- tennial anniversary of the University of Virginia. He published ''Memoir of John Yates Beall." "The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems," "The Maid of Northum- berland," "Ballads and Madrigals," "Nica- ragua and the Filibusters." In recognition of his ample learning, and brilliant qualities as an orator and writer, the L'niversity of A'irginia conferred u])iin him the degree of Doctor of i^aws. He married Evelina Tucker Brooke, daughter of Henry Laurens Brooke, and Virginia Tucker, his wife, daughter of Henry St. George Tucker, judge of the Virginia supreme court of appeals, and Evelina Hunter, his wife.

McKim, Randolph Harrison, son of John S. McKim and Katharine 1 larrison, his wife ; is descended on the father's side from a Scotch-Irish family emigrating to America in the eighteenth century ; and on the mother's from Benjamin Harrison, of James river, \'irginia (1635), ancestor of the two presidents of that name, and from William Randolph, of Turkey Island. He left the University in July. 1861, to enlist in Com- p;;ny H, First Regiment, Maryland Infan- tr\, Ca]nain William H. Murray, attached tc Elzey's brigade, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He participated in the first battle of Manassas, and subsequently in Stone- wall Jackson's famous valley camiiaign of 1862, in the various engagements from Harper's Ferry to Cross Keys, at which battle (having been appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General George H. Stewart) he had a horse shot under him. In the cam- paign of 1863, Lieutenant McKim was .sev- eral times mentioned for gallantry in offi- cial despatches, especially for conduct at Stephenson's Depot in volunteering to serve a piece of artillery whose cannoneers had all been killed or wounded, and at Gettysburg for volunteering to bring a supply of am- munition, under fire, to the men of the Third Brigade lying in the Federal breastw(.rks on Gulp's llill. In this brittle he was touch- ed four times by the bullets of the enemy, but escaped serious injury. In the follow- ing autumn he resigned, with the consent or his superior officers, in order to fit him- self for the post of chaplain. Fie spent the winter in study in Staunton, Virginia, and v,as ordained in May. 1864. He then served a.- chaplain in the field until the surrender o;' .Appomattox, first in Chew's Battalion of