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 McFAUL

McFERRIN

.-secretary of the International Association for Promoting Quaternions and Allied Mathematics in 1879. He directed his work as a physicist mainly to electricity and as a mathematician principally to space-analysis. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan in 1887. He is the author of : Algebra of Logic (1879); Physical Arithmetic (1885); Mathematical Tables (1889); Papers on Space- Analysis (1894); Chapter on Quaternions and Vector- Analysis .(1886).

McFAUL, James Aug^ustine, R.C. bishop, was born in Lame, Ireland, June 6, 1850. He came to the United States with his parents in in- fancy and they located first in New York city, and later at Weston, N.J. He was a student

at St. Vincent's col- lege, Beatty, Pa. , 1868-71, at the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York city, 1871- 73, and was grad- uated from Seton Hall, South Orange, N.J., in 1873. He was educated for the priesthood at the theological seminary at Seton Hall, and was ordained by Bishop Corrigan, May 26, 1877. He was at first temporarily -assigned to churches at Orange and Pater- son, N.J., and later filled permanent positions at St. Patrick's, Jersey City ; St. Patrick's cathe- -dral, Newark, N.J., and St. Peter's, New Bruns- wick, N.J. In 1879 he was appointed assistant to Vicar-General Anthony Smith, and served as Secretary to Bishop O'Farrell of Trenton, N.J., 1882-84. He was rector of St. Mary's Star of the •Sea, Long Branch, N.J., and of the mission •church of St. Michael's, West End, Long Branch, N.J., which he built, 1883-90. He was appointed chancellor of the diocese and rector of St. Mary's cathedral, Trenton, by Bishop O'Farrell in 1890, vicar-general in 1892, and July 20, 1894, was ap- pointed bishop of Trenton, by Leo XIII., as successor to Bishop O'Farrell. After the death of Bishop O'Farrell, April 2, 1894, he was admin. Istrator of Trenton until his appointment as bishop, and was consecrated in St. Mary's cathe- dral, Trenton, Oct. 18, 1894, by Archbishop M. A. Corrigan, assisted by Bishops McQuaid of Roches- ter and McDonnell of Brooklyn. He was the arbiter in the re-organization of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and took a prominent part in the movement for the federation of Catholic iBocieties throughout the United States in 1901.

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In behalf of this movement he contributed vari- ous articles to magazines and papers, notably to the North American Review on " Catholics and American Citizenship " and to the American Ec- clesiastical Review on " Catholic Grievances — their Remedy." His Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1898.

MACFEELY, Robert, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania, July 8, 1820. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1850, was pro- moted 2d lieutenant, 4th infantry, July 13, 1852 ; was in command of the escort for the Pacific Railroad exploration, 1853-54, and served on the Yakima expedition in 1855. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Feb. 3, 1855 ; took part in the Rogue River expedition, March to June, 1856; was made quartermaster of the 4th infantry, Sept. 10, 1856. In 1861 he served respectively on mustering duty at Frederick, Md. ; as commis- sary to the state of Indiana ; in the western Vir- ginia campaign, and as commissariat at Cincin- nati, Ohio. He was promoted captain of staff and commissary of subsistence, May 11, 1861. He was chief of the commissariat of the Army of the Ohio in 1862, and chief of the commis- sariat with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, 15th army corps, January to April, 1863, and of the Department and Army of the Tennessee, April, 1863, to September, 1864, w^here he was engaged in the Vicksburg campaign and the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He was promoted major of staff in the commissary subsistence de- partment, Feb. 9, 1863 ; served as assistant to the commissary-general at Washingon, D.C., October to November, 1864 ; as purchasing and depot com- missary, and chief of the commissariat of the Department of the Ohio, at Cincinnati ; and was in general charge of the subsistence depart- ment in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois from Decem- ber, 1864, to September, 1866. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services during the war ; later served as chief commissary of the De- partment of the Lakes, and purchasing and depot commissary at Detroit, Mich., and was promoted commissary-general of subsistence with rank of brigadier-general, April 14, 1875, which office he held until his retirement, July 8, 1890. He thereafter resided in Washington, D.C., until his death, which occurred, Feb. 21, 1901.

McFERRIN, John Berry, clergyman, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., June 15, 1807 ; son of the Rev. James and Jane Campbell (Berry) McFerrin ; grandson of William McFerrin, a farmer and soldier iu the Revolution, and a descendant of Scotch-Irish ancestors, who came to America about 1740, and settled in York county. Pa. His father, originally Presbyterian, joined the Methodist church in 1820, and was a circuit