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 McILVAINE

McINDOE

of Scotland, who oame to America and settled in Pennsylvania. Joseph attended the local acad- enay, studied law, settled in practice in Burling- ton in 1791, was clerk of the courts of Bur- lington county, 1800-23, and was appointed U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey by Presi- dent Jefferson, serving, 1801-20. He was ap- pointed judge of the superior court of New Jersey in 1818, but declined the appointment and was elected to the U.S. senate from New Jereey as a Democrat to take the place of Samuel L. South- ard, who had resigned, and he served from Dec. 1, 1823, until his death. He became a captain in McPherson's Regiment of Blues in 1798, and aide- de-camp to Gov. Joseph Bloomfield in 1804. He was married to Maria, daughter of Bowes Reed of Philadelphia, Pa. He died in Burlington, N.J., Aug. 19. 1826.

McILVAINE, Joshua Hall, educator, was born in Lewes, Del,, March 4, 1815. He was prepared for college at Wilmington, Del., matriculated at Lafayette with the class of 1837, changed to Princeton, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1837, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1840. He was licensed to preach in 1839. He served as stated supply at the Second church, Freehold, N.J., and the First church, Paterson, N.J., and was pastor at Little Falls, N.Y., 1841-42. He was ordained by the presbytery of Albany, June 28, 1842, removed to Utica, N.Y., in 1843, and organized the West- minster Presbyterian church, the first of that name in the United States, and the first organ- ized with a rotary eldership in the Presbyterian denomination. He ministered there until 1848. He was pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church, R<x;hester, N.Y., 1848-60; was professor of belles- lettres at the College of New Jersey, 1860-70; pastor of the High Street church, Newark, N.J., 1870-87; founded Evelyn college for girls at Princeton, N.J., in 1887, and was president of the institution, 1888-97. He delivered a course of lectures on comparative philology and ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1859, and a course on social science in Philadelphia under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania in 1869. He declined the professorship of social science in the University of Pennsylvania in 1869. He was a member of the American Oriental so- ciety, and received the degree D.D. from the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1854. He con- tributed to the Princeton Reineio and other periodicals and is the author of : The Tree of the Knowledge of Oood and Evil (1854); Elocution, the Source and Elements of its Potper (1870) ; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture, unth Reference to Sceptical Objections (1889) ; The Wisdom of the Apocalypse (\S^(^), and various magazine articles. He died in Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 30, 1897.

MclLWAINE, Richard, educator, was born in Petersburg, Va., May 20, 1834 ; son of Archi- bald Graham and Martha (Dunn) Mcllwaine, and grandson of Richard and Jane (Graham) Mcll- waine and of Robert and Ann (Strawbridge) Dunn. He attended the Petersburg Classical institute and was graduated from Hampden-Sid- ney college, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856, and in moral philosophy and German at the University of Vir- ginia, 1855. He was a student at the Union Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1856-57, and at the Free Church college at Edinburgh, Scot- land, 1857-58. He was licensed to preach by the East Hanover presbytery, Va., in April, 1857, and was ordained pastor of Amelia church in December, 1858. He was lieutenant and chap- lain of the 44th Virginia volunteers, 1861-62 ; pastor of the Farmville church, Va., 1863-70; pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Lynch- burg, 1870-72 ; secretary and treasurer of the home and foreign missions of the Southern Pres- byterian church, 1872-83, and a member of the constitutional convention of the state of Virginia of 1901, representing Prince Edward county. He was elected president of Hampden-Sidney college, in 1883, which position he still held in 1901. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Stuart college, Tennessee, in 1873, and LL.D. by Davidson college, N.C., in 1900. He was mar- ried May 14, 1857, to Elizabeth Read. His sons, Archibald G. and Clement R., practised law at Tyler, Texas, and Knoxville, Tenn., respectively.

McINDOE, Walter Duncan, representative, was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, March 30, 1819 ; son of Hugh and Catharine (McCrae) Mc- Indoe. He attended school in Dumbartonshire until 1836, when h^ removed to New York, where he was a bookkeeper until 1840. He followed the same pursuit in Virginia and Charleston, S.C., 1840-42, and in St. Louis, Mo., 1842-45. He was married, Feb. 20, 1845, to Catherine H. Tay- lor, of Florisant, Mo. In the fall of 1845 he re- moved to Wausau, Marathon county. Wis., where he engaged in lumbering. He represented his district in the state legislature in 1850 and 1854-55, and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1857. He was elected a Republican representative to the 37th congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Luther Hanchett in December, 1862, and was re-elected to the 38th and 39tli congresses, serving from Jan. 26, 1863, till March 8, 1867. He was chair- man of the committee on Revolutionary pensions in the 39th congress. He was a presidential elec- tor on the Fremont and Dayton ticket in 1856 ; the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in 1860, and the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1872, and a delegate to the Philadelphia " Loyalists' convention " of 1866. He died at Wausau, Wis., Aug. 22, 1872.