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son) MacCracken, and great-grandson of Henry MacCracken, who fell at a frontier post on the West Susquehanna in the war of the American Revolution, and of Major Samuel Wilson, also a Revolutionary soldier. His father was a Presby- terian clergyman, and his mother be- fore her marriage was principal of a school for young ladies in Oxford. He was graduated from Miami university in 1857 ; was a classical teacher at Grove aca- demy, Cedarville, Ohio, 1857-58 ; school superintendent at Charleston, Ohio, 1858-60 ; and a classi- cal teacher at the high school, Xenia, Ohio, 1860-61. He studied theology in the United Pres- byterian Theological seminary at Xenia, 1860-62 ; and at the Princeton Theological seminary, 1862- 63. He was stated supply of the First church, Toledo, Ohio, in 1862 ; was ordained by the presby- tery of Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1863, and was pastor of Westminster church, Columbus, 1863-67. He studied philosophy and history in the univer- sities of Tubingen and Berlin, Germany, 1867-68 ; w^as pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Tol- edo, 1869-81 ; a member of the committee that led in founding Wooster university in 1865 and Green Spring academy in 1877. and was also the first to propose, in his "Historical Memorial to the Gen- eral Assembly," the Presbyterian Tercentenary of 1872. He was chancellor and professor of philosopliy in the Western University of Penn- sylvania, 1881-84 ; became professor of philosophy in the University of the City of New York in 1884 ; was vice-chancellor of the same, 1885-91, and in 1891 became chancellor. During his administration the university founded its grad- uate seminary, its school of pedagogy, and ob- tained new grounds in the upper part of New York city, named upon the map University Heights, upon which were erected buildings cost- ing about $2,000,000, including the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. He was a delegate to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland at Edinburgh in 1867 ; to the Presbyterian assem- bly at Dublin, Ireland, in 1867, and historical orator at the Scotch-Irish reunion, Belfast, Ire- land, in 1884. He was elected an officer of the American Society of Church History, of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, The Ameri- can Tract society, and other benevolent associa- tions. He received the honorary degree of D.D.

from Wittenberg college, Ohio, in 1878, and that of LL.D. from Miami university in 1887. He was married, July 2, 1872, at Columbus,Ohio, to Cathe- rine, daughter of the Rev. TJiomas Hubbard of Stockbridge, Vt. The writings of Chancellor Mac- Cracken include periodical articles upon ijhil- osophical, sociological, educational, historical and religious questions. He is the author of: Kant and Lotze (1885); Lives of the Leaders of Our Church Universal, translated in chief part from the German of Dr. Ferdinand Piper (3 vols., 1879); A Metropolitan University (1892) ; Educa- tional Progress in the United States in the Quarter Century Ending 1893 (ISdS); The Hall of Fame (1901).

MacCRACKEN, John Henry, educator, was born in Rochester, Vt., Sept. oO, 1875; son of Henry Mitchell and Catherine (Hubbard) Mac- Cracken and grandson of John and Eliza (Doug- • herty) MacCracken and of Thomas Swan and Mary (Fay) Hubbard. His paternal ancestor, Hen- ry MacCracken, emigrated from the north of Ire- land about 1760, settled in Pennsylvania and taught school on the west branch of the Susque- hanna river. His maternal ancestor, John Hub- bard, was pastor of the church at Northfield, Mass., 1749-94. He attended the public schools of Allegheny, Pa., and Lj'ons collegiate institute at New York city, and was graduated from New York university, A.B.,1894, A.M., 1897. He was a student at the Union Theological seminary, 1894- 95, and at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 1895-96 and 1899, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1899. He was instructor and assist- ant professor of philosophy at New York uni- versity, 1896-99, and was elected president of Westminster college in 1899, at the age of twenty- three. He was elected a member of the Western Philosophical association in 1899 and of the Amer- ican Historical association in 1900.

McCRADY, Edward, lawyer and theologian, was born in Charleston, L C, March 16, 1803 ; son of John and Jane (Johnson) McCrady ; grand- son of Edward and Elizabeth (Campbell) Mc- Crady, who emigrated from Antrim, Ireland, about 1765, also of William Johnson, who re- moved from New York to Charleston in 176-, a leader in the Revolutionary war. Both his grand- fathers were among the patriot exiles sent to St. Augustine, Fla., from Charleston upon the capture of that city by the British in 1780. His father was a lawyer. He was prepared for college at the private academy of the Rev. Thomas Frost, Sr., was graduated from Yale in 1820, and was for several years the oldest living graduate of that university. He studied law under his uncle, William Johnson, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He espoused the Union side of