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preparatory department, Madison college, Union- town, Pa., where he pursued a full classical course and was graduated A.B. and A.M. in 1853. In 1S''>3 he was elected to the chair of natural science and niatheamtics, resigning the next year, but resuming the chair under the presidency of the Rev. George Brown. He was principal of the North Illinois institute, Htiiry, 111., l«57-62 ; county superintendent and principal of city schools, Henry, 111., 1862-64 ; princiiml of Alle- gheny seminary, Sharpsburg, Pa., 1864-60 ; pro- fessor of mathematics and astronomy at Adrian college, Mich., 1866-98 ; vice-president of the college, 1867-71 ; president, 1873-79 : Amos pro- fessor of systematic tlieology, 1877-98 ; president pro tempore, 1879-81, and dean of the school of theology. 1882-98. He was elected secretary of the lx)ard of trustees of Adrian college in 1867 and a trustee in 1870, and was made professor emeritus of mathematics in 1898. He attended the ecumenical (conference of Methodism, Lon- don. Knjjiand. in ISSl.

McELROV, John, educator, was born in BrookeborouKb, Ireland, May 11, 1782. He re- ceived a limited education in his own country, and before he reached manhood he came to the United States and was a merchant's clerk in Georgetown, D.C. He became bookkeeper at Georgetown college ; gained a good knowledge of Latin with the assistance of a student ; entered the Society of Jesus as a lay brother in 1806, and on May 31, 1817, was ordained priest by Arch- bishop Neale. He commenced liiS labors in Trin- ity church, Georgetown, D.C, and in 1822 went to Frederick, M«l., where he built St. John's church, the corner-stone Iwing laid March 19, 1833, and it was consecrated by Archbishop Ec- deston, April 2, 1837. He also built St. John's Literary Institution, an academy, an orphan asylum, and the first free public school in Fred- erick, Md. He was returned to Trinity church, Georgetown, D.C, in 1845, and in 1846 was chosen, with Father Anthony Rey, chaplain to the Iri.sh soldiers in General Taylor's army in the Mexican war. He took charge of pastoral work at St. Mary's, Boston, Mass., in 1848 : with three sisters from Cincinnati founded Notre Dame convent and academy in 1849 ; acted an theologi- cal adviser to Bishop O'Reilly, of Hartford, Conn., at the first plenary council at Baltimore, Md., in 1852 ; in ]SrA helped in founding St. Pat- rick's academy for girls at Lowell. Ma.ss., and in 1858 founded Boston college, which was opened in 1860. He also built the Church of the Immac- ulate Con(!eption, serving as rector and as presi- dent of Boston college, 1861-62. He was a mem- ber of the Society of Jesus for seventy-one years. He became blind in 1872. and retire«l to Fred- erick, Md., where he died Sept. 12. 1877.

McELROV, John George Repplier, educator, w^s born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 30, 1842; son of Archibald and Sophia Maria (Repplier) Mc- Elroy. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1862, A.M., 1865; was a teacher at Rittenhouse academy, Philadelpliia, 1862-66, and at Chicago high school, 111., 1866- 67. He was assistant professor of rhetoric and history at the University of Pennsylvania. 1867- 69 ; adjunct professor of Greek and history, 1869- 76, and professor of rhetoric and English lan- guage, 1876-90. He was a member of the Modern Language association of America. He was mar- ried to Anna Baldwin, daughter of John and Anna Clayton, of Cape May, N.J. He is the author of : A System of Punctuation, Hie Structure of Eng- lish Prose, Essential Lessons in English Etymol- ogy, and many contributions to periodicals. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 26, 1890.

McENERY, John, governor of Louisiana, was born in Petersburg, Va., March 31, 1833 ; son of Henry O'Neil and Caroline (Douglas) McEnery ; grandson of Mathew McEnery, who resided in Baltimore, Md., and a descendant of John Mc- Enery, of Ireland, to whom James II. of England made large grants of lands. Henry O'Neil McEnery was a tobac- co manufacturer, who re- moved his family to Louisiana in 1835 and was appointed by President Tyler register of land office at Monroe. John McEnery was a student at Hanover college, Ind., in the class of 1847, but did not graduate. He assisted his father in the land office, studied law, and practised at Monroe, La., 1854-57. He was register of the land office at Monroe by appointment of President Buclianan, 1857-61, and in 1861 organized the Ouachita Blues, and his command became part of the 4th Louisiana battalion, of which he was appointed lieutenant-colonel. He served in western Vir- ginia in the campaign under Gen. Robert E. Lee, 1861 ; on the coast of North and South Carolina and Georgia, 1862-63. and with the Army of Tennessee, 1863-65. He commanded the advance posts on Skid way Island, Ga., and participated in the battle of James Island, S.C, June 16, 1862, driving the Federals from the fort. He served under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Vicksburg and in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863, where he was severely wounded, and also at the battle of Resaca, May 13-15, 1864, where he was again wounded and disabled for more than a year. He returned to Monroe, La., re- sumed the practice of law, and engaged in culti- vating cotton. He was elected judge of the dis- trict court, composed of the parishes of Ouachita, Franklin, Caldwell and others, in 1865, but was