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 McCALL

McCALLA

commissioned brigadier-general U.S. volunteers, May 17, 1861, and participated in the action at Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20, 1861. He commanded the 3d division of Fitz John Porter's 5th corps in the Seven Days' battles, June 25-30, 1862, and at the battle of Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862, he commanded the entire force engaged. He led his brigade in the battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862. and at the battle of New Market Cross Roads, June 30, 1862, where he was taken pris- oner. He was confined in Libby prison, Rich- mond, Va., June 27 to Aug. 18, 1862, and was on sick leave of absence from Aug. 18, 1862, to March 31, 1863, when he resigned his commission and retired to his farm at Belair, Pa. In August, 1862, the citizens of Chester county presented him with a sword and in the autumn of 1864 he was the Democratic candidate for representative from his district in tiie 39th congress. He is the author of: Letters from the Frontier (published posthumously, 1868). He died in Belair, Pa., Feb. 26, 1868.

McCALL, Peter, law instructor, was born in Trenton, N.J., Aug. 31, 1809; son of Peter and Sarah (Gibson) McCall, and grandson of Archi- bald and Juditli (Kemble) McCall. He v^^as grad- uated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1826, A.M., 1829. He studied law under J. R. Ingersoll; and practised in Philadelphia, 1831-80. He was a member of the city council for several years and mayor of the city, 1841-45. He was a vice-pro- vost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia for thirty years; professor of pleading and practice in the law department of the University of Penn- sylvaina and a trustee of the university, 1861-80. He delivered many addresses, including Progress and Influence of the Society of Friends in Phila- delphia (1832); RUe and Progress of Civil Society <1836); History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity (183S) . He died in Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1880.

McCALL, Samuel Walker, representative, was born in E.ist Providence, Pa., Feb. 28, 1851; son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, and grandson of William McCall. He passed his early life in Illinois; prepared for college at New Hampton, N.H., academy; was grad- uated from Dartmouth college in 1874; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and began prac- tice in Boston. Ho was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser; was a representative in the state legislature, 1888, 1889 and 1892; was presi- dent of the Republican state convention of Massa- chusetts in 1896; was a delegate to the Republi- can national conventions that met in Chicago, June 19, 1888, and in Philadelphia, 1900, and a representative from the eight district of Massa- chusetts in the 53d-58th congresses, 1893-1905. He is the author of TJiaddeus Stevens (1899) in the " American Statesman Series."

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McCALLA, Bowman Hendry, naval ofHcer, was born in Camden, N.J., June 19, 1844; son of Auley and Mary Dufiield (Hendry) McCalla; grandson of Auley and Hannah (Gibbon) Mc- Calla and of Dr. Bowman and Elizabeth (Duf- field) Hendry; great-grandson of Thomas and (Bowman) Hen- dry, and a descend- ant of John and Jane McCalla, who came from Scotland in 1750 with a grant of land in Pennsylvania and settled in Mont- gomery county, af- terward removing to Roadstown, N.J. He was graduated at the U.S. Naval academy in November, 1864; and was promoted master, Dec. 1, 1866. He served on the training ship Sabine on the Atlantic station, 1867-68; was promoted lieutenant, March 12, 1868; served on the Tuscarora of the South Pacific and North Atlantic squadrons, 1868-71, and was promoted lieutenant-commander, March 26, 1869. He was attached to the H\tbash, flag- ship of the European squadron, 1871-72; to the Wachusett of the European fleet in 1873. and was on duty at the U.S. Naval academy, 1874-78. He was married, March 3, 1875, to Elizabeth Hazard, daughter of Gen. Horace Binney Sargent, of Bos- ton, Mass. He served on the Powhatan of the North Atlantic station, 1878-81; was assistant to the bureau of navigation, 1881-87; was promoted commander, November, 1884, and commanded the naval force on the Isthmus of Panama in 1885. He commanded the Enterprise on the European station, 1887-90, and iji the latter year while holding this command he was convicted by court- martial of striking a mutinous sailor with the back of his sword and was sentenced to be sus- pended from rank and duty for three years. In 1891 Secretary Tracy remitted the unexpired por- tion of his sentence. He was granted a full and unconditional pardon by President McKinley, March 13, 1900, He was on duty at the Mare Island navy yard, 1893-97; was instructor at the war college. 1897; commanded the protected cruiser Marhlehend. 1897-98, and seized the British steam- ship Adula in Cuban waters, June. 1898, on the claim that the vesspl was violating the blockade, and served in the North Atlantic squadron dur- ing the war with Spain. He was promoted cap- tain and advanced seven numbers, Aug. 10. 1898, for heroic and distinguished services during the Spanish- American war, and this re.stored him to