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the nullification struggle in 1832, was chairman of the committee of correspondence of that party in Charleston, and attended the nullification con- vention in Columbia, S.C., as one of the agents of the administration, reporting to Washington on the transactions of each day. In behalf of tlie Union party be made the question as to the oath of allegiance prescribed by the nullification con- vention, in a case reported as : " The State ex relatione McCready vs. Hunt," published in Hiirs Law Reports, and occupying half that volume, which resulted in the overthrow of the court which sustained his position. He was U.S. district attorney, 1839-50, resigning to take an active part in the organization of the co-operation party of the south as against the immediate se- cession party, and served for several years as a representative in the legislature from Charleston. He was a member of the state convention which met in 1852, and in that body voted against an ordinance declaring the right of peaceable seces- sion, he maintaining that recession, however justified, could only be a measure of war. He was again a member of the state convention of 1860, in which he voted for the ordinance of se- cession. He was recognized throughout the United States as one of the most learned laymen iu the Episcopal church. He represented St. Philip's parish in the diocesan convention for over fifty years consecutively, was for tliirty years a member of the general convention of the church in the United States and a member of the standing committee of the diocese for forty .years, and was a constant contributor to church reviews and periodicals. Two of his articles, one on the litany, written in his eightieth year, and the other a review of Henry Drummond's '* Natural Law in the Spiritual World," written in his eighty-fourth year, attracted much attention. He was married in 1829 to Louisa Rebecca, daughter of Robert and Louisa (de Berni^re) Lane, and granddaughter of Col. John de Ber- nidre of the British army, who immigrated to South Carolina in 1799. Of their children, four sons and four daughters reached maturity : Edward (q.v.) ; John (q.v.) ; Thomas, a dis- tinguished officer in the Confederate army ; Louis de Bernit^re, who, with his brother Edward and his brother-in-law, Thoma« W. Bacot, formed the law firm of McCrady & Bacot ; Louisa de Berni^re, the wife of Thomas W. Bacot, Ellen Madelina. Jane, and Mary Margaret. He died at Charleston. S.C., in November, 1892.

ncCRADY. Edward, lawyer and historian, was born in Charleston, S.C, April 8, 1833 ; son of Edward and Louisa Rebecca (Lane) McCrady. He was prepared for college in private academies in Charleston, 1841-49 ; was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1853, and was admitted

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to tbe bar in 1855. He took part in the earliej-t military operations during the civil war as captain in the state service, Dec. 27, 1860. On April 13, 1861, he entered the Confederate States service as captain of the first company raised *' for the war " in South Caro- lina, and was pro- moted major and lieutenant-colonel, Ist S.C. volunteei-s, June 27, 1861. He served in Jackson's corps in Virginia, and being disabled by wounds he was in 1864 trans- ferred to the com- mand of the camp of instruction at Ma- dison, Fla. After the war he was major-general of the state volunteer force. He was married, Feb. 24, 1868, to Mary Eraser Davie, granddaughter of Gen. William Richard- son Davie (q.v.). He resumed the practice of law in October, 1805, was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives, 1880-90, and was the author of state election and registration laws popularly known as the " eiglit box law," and of other important measures. He was elected a member of the Historical Society of South Carolina, 1857 ; of the Elliot Society of Natural History ; a trustee of the Cliarleston Library society ; a trustee of the Medical College of South Carolina and president of the Historical Society of South Carolina. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from the College of Charleston in 1900. He is the author of: TJie History of South Carolina under the Pi'oprietary Government, 1670- 1719 (1897) ; The History of South Carolina under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 (1899) ; The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1775-1780 (1901) ; The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 17S0-17SS (in preparation, 1901), and numerous legal, political and historical essays and addresses.

McCRADY, John, scientist, was born in Charleston, S.C, Oct. 15, 1831 ; eldest son of Edward and Louisa Rebecca (Lane) McCrady. He was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1850 and began the study of law with his father, but soon abandoned it for scientific pur- suits. Attracting the attention of Louis Agassiz, then lecturing at the medical college at Charles- ton, by his invitation be became his private pupil, and as such accompanied him to Cambridge, Mass., where he spent three summers. He was one of the few American naturalists to be trained as such under the instruction of Agassiz, and the