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the number and rank he had held in the navy prior to the court-martial. He was transferred from the Marblehead to the Norfolk navy yard in October, 1898, served as captain of the yard and made the unsuccei(sful effort to bring into that yard the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa, which had been abandoned otT Cat Island by the wrecking company in November, 1898. While in command of the Neivark he received the sur- render of the provinces of Cagayan and Isabella, with the Batan Isles at Aparri, P. I., Dec. 11, 1899, from Greneral Tirona, in command of the insurgent troops, and ap[)ointed the captured general civil governor of the province, subject to the approval of General Otis. He was ordered to China in 1900 and commanded the American sea- men and marines in Admiral Seymour's unsuc- cessful expedition for the relief of Pekin, and Admiral Seymour in writing to Admiral Kempff after the expedition spoke in high commendation of his gallant conduct.

McCANDLESS, Wilson, jurist, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., June 19, 1810 ; of Scotch-Irish de- scent. He was graduated at the Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1826 ; practised law in Pittsburg, 1831-59 ; and was United States judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1859-76. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union college, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1862. He was a presidential elector from the state at large on the Democratic ticket in 1844, 1852 and 1856, and served twice as president of the elec- toral college of the state. He was also chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Democratic national convention at Baltimore, Md., May 22, 1848. He delivered the address of welcome to John Quincy Adams on his visit to Pittsburg in 1833, and the oration on General Jackson's death, 1848. He died in Pittsburg, Pa., June 30, 1882.

McCANN, William Penn, naval officer, was born in Paris, Ky., May 4, 1830. He was ap- pointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy in 1848 ; was promoted passed midshipman, June 15, 1854 ; lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1855 ; and was lieutenant and navigator of the Sabine, flagship of the Brazil squadron on the Paraguay expedition, 1858-59, and also on a cruise in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, 185^-61. He was stationed at Vera Cruz at the outbreak of the civil war, and in April, 1861, re-enforced Fort Pickens with pailors and marines. He remained off the fort for one hundred and twenty-seven days, and in June, 1861, assisted in landing reinforcements under Col. Harvey Brown. He remained with the Sa- bine on blockading duty on the South Carolina coast, 1861-62: commanded the gunboat Mnra- tanza at the siege of Yorktown in April, 1862, and was relieved by Commander Stevens in 1862. but remained on board as executive officer. On

July 4, 1862, he captured the Confederate gun- boat Teazer, with plans of the batteries, torpe- does and defences of Richmond. He was pro- moted lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862, and commanded the Huncliback and a fleet of five gunboats in the sounds of North Carolina, 1862- 63. He commanded the Kennebec of the West Gulf blockading squadron in the Mobile blockade, 1863-64, and the Tahonia in 1865, when she waa disabled by a gale and returned to Boston. He commanded the Tallapoosa, West Gulf squadron, 1866-67 ; naval rendezvous and yard at Philadel- phia, 1867-70, and commanded the Nipsic of the North Atlantic squadron, 1871-72. He was pro- moted commander, July 2, 1872, to rank from July 25, 1866, and was advanced sixteen numbers^ He was stationed at the navy yard, Norfolk, Va., in 1873 ; was lighthouse inspector, 1873-76 ; pro- moted captain, Sept. 21, 1876 ; commanded the Lackawanna on the Pacific station, 1877-78 ; the receiving ship Independence in California, 1879- 81 ; and the flagship Pensacola, Pacific station,. 1881-82 ; was assigned to court-martial duty in 1883, and served on the lightliouse board, 1883-87. He was president of the naval advisory board, 1885-87 ; was promoted commodore, Jan. 26, 1887 ; commanded the Boston naval station, 1887-90, and was president of the navy yard site commis- sion and president of the board on the policy for the increase of the navy. He commanded the^ South Pacific station. 1890-91, and in June, 1891,. having five U.S. cruisers under his command, he enforced the surrender of the steamer Itata, laden with arms and ammunition smuggled out of the port of San Diego, Cal., and transferred to the Itata. He sent the captured vessel back to San Diego, and for this act received the thanks and commendation of the navy department. He was president of the retiring board, 1891-92, and was retired in May, 1892, with the rank of commo- dore. He served during the war with Spain, 1898, as president of the board of inquiry and court-martial and as prize commissioner of the southern district of New York.

McCARTEE, Divie Bethune, pioneer mis- sionary, educator, sinologue, and diplomatist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 13, 1820; son of the Rev. Robert (q.v.) and Jessie Graham (Bethune) McCartee, and grandson of Peter and Mary (McDowell) McCartee, and of Divie and Joanna (Graham) Bethune. He read both law and theology in his father's library; attended lectures on chemistry and physics given by Pro- fessor Steele, was a student at Columbia college three years, leaving for the purpose of studying^ medicine, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., with distinction in 1840, meantime practising at Port Carbon, Pa., with Dr. Z. Prall, who was also his medical preceptor^