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logical studies at Mt. St. Mary's seminary, and was ordained a priest by Bishop Hughes ol New York in 1841. The same year he was made a member of the faculty of Mount St. Mary's col- lege, and was elected vice-president and treasurer. In 1871 he was elected president and remained in that office until 1877, when he resigned. He was re-elected in 1879, and remained at his post up to the time of his death, which occurred at Emmits- burg. M(l., Dec. 24. 1S80.

McCLOSKEY, William George, R.C. bishop, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 10, 1823 ; son of George and Ellen McCloskey. He graduated at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg.Md., 1840 ; entered Mt. St. Mary's seminary in 1846, received minor orders and subdeaconship from Arch- bishop Eccleston in 1850, and was ordained priest, Oct. 6, 1852, in St. Patrick's cathedral. New York city, by Archbishop Hughes, who sent him as assistant to his brother, the Rev. George Mc- Closkey, at the Church of the Nativity in New York city. He remained there one year, when he was appointed professor of English and after- ward of Latin in Mount St. Mary's. In 1857 he succeeded Arclibishop Elder as director of Mt. St. Mary's seminary and became professor of moral theology and sacred scripture. In 1859 he was appointed by Pope Pius IX. first president of the newly founded American college in Rome, which position he filled until 1868, when he was elected bishop of Louisville, March 16, and was consecrated in the college church, S. Maria dell' UmiltA, on May 24, 1868, by Cardinal August Charles de Reisach, who was assisted by Mgr. de Merotle, archbishop of Militene, and Mgr. Nobile Vitelleschi, archbishop of Osimo and Cingoli. On reaching the United States he assumed charge of his diocese where, in 1901, he was still in the active discharge of his manifold duties in a territory embracing an area of over 22,000 square miles.

McCLUNEY, WiUiam J., naval officer, was warranted midshipman in the U.S. navy, Jan. 1, 1812, and his first battle was the action between the Wasp and the Frolic, Oct. 18, 1812. He was promoted lieutenant, April 1, 1818, and com- mander, Deo. 9, 1839. He served in Commodore Conner's fleet in the operations at Vera Cruz which led to the landing of General Scott's army and the surrender of the place, March 29, 1847, and was promoted captain, Oct. 13, 1851. He com- manded the Powhatan on Commodore Perry's Japan expedition, 1853-56, and next served as gen- eral supervisor of the construction of the Stevens battery, Hoboken, N. J., 1857-58. He commanded the Atlantic squadron, 1858-60 ; was placed on the retired list, Dec. 21, 1861 ; and was commissioned commodore on the retired list. July 16, 1862. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1864.

McCLURE, Addison Smith,, representative, was born in Wooster, Oliio, Oct. 10, 1839 ; son of Charles and Lucetta McClure and grandson of Matthew McClure. He matriculated at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa., but was not graduated. He studied law and practised iu "Wooster. Dur- ing the civil war he served as sergeant-major of the 4th Ohio infantry and captain in the 16th Ohio infantry, 1861-64. He was a Republican rep- resentative from the eighteenth district of Ohio in the 47th, and from the seventeenth district in the 54th congresses, 1881-83 and 1895-97. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- ventions at Chicago, May 20, 1868, and at Cincin- nati, June 14, 1876.

McCLURE, Alexander Kelly, journalist, wa» born in Sherman's Valley, Perry county, Pa., Jan. 9, 1828 ; son of Alexander and Isabella (Anderson) McClure; grandson of William Mc- Clure ; and of Scotch and Irish ancestry. He was reared on his father's farm, re- ceived his education at home and was ap- prentice'! to James Marshall, a tanner, for whom he served, 1843-46. He began his editorial career at the age of nine- teen as editor of a Whig organ, the Juniata Sentinel, at Mifflintown, Pa.,

1846-52 ; was a bur- gess of Mifflintown in 1850, and was commis- sioned a member of Gov. William F. Johnston's staff with the rank of colonel in 1849. He was appointed U.S. marshal of Juniata county, Pa., in 1850, commenced the study of law with Davis Sharon, in that year, and bought the Franklin Repository and published it at Chambersburg» Pa., 1852-56. He was defeated for auditor-gen- eral of Pennsylvania on the Whig ticket in 1853, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and became the law partner of his last preceptor, William Mc- Lellan. He was appointed superintendent of public printing by Governor Pollock of Pennsyl- vania in 1855, but after eight months resigned the office. He was a member of the convention that organized the Republican party at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1855 ; superintendent of the Erie and Northwestern railroad in 1856, when he succeeded in quelling the riots ; a member of the state leg- islature, 1857-58, and a state senator in 1859. He was a delegate to the Republican national con- ventions of 1856, 1864 and 1868. and was engaged again in publishing the Franklin Repository at