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with the English mission, taking them on board the Falmouth and carrying them to Auckland, for which service he received the thanks of Queen Victoria. He commanded the Brooklyn navy yard, 1847-50 ; was promoted commodore, and assigned to the U.S. frigate Congress, flagship of the Brazil squadron. On May 10, 1855, he was made commandant of the Portsmouth, Va., navy yard, and he died there April 1, 185G.

McKEEOHAN, William Arthur, representa- tive, was born in Cumberland county, N.J., Jan. 19, 1842. His parents removed to Fulton county, 111., in 1848, where he lived on a farm and attended the public schools. He served throughout the civil war in the 11th Illinois cavalry regiment, and in 1865 settled in Pon- tiac. 111., where he engaged in agriculture. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' As- sociation and was elected vice-president for the eighth congressional district. He removed to Nebraska in 1880, and settled on a farm near Red Cloud. He was county judge of Webster county, 1885-86 ; was the unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 50th congress in 1886, being defeated by James Laud, Republican, and was a Democratic representative in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-95.

MACKELLAR, Thomas, type-founder, was born in New York city, Aug. 12, 1812 ; son of Arcliibald and Henrietta (Andrews) MacKellar. His ancestors were among the early settlers of New Amsterdam. He ceceived a good education and in 1819 he entered the employ of J. & J. Harper and was rapidly advanced. He removed to Philadelphia in 1833, and entered the type foundry of Lawrence Johnson, where he became foreman and subsequently a partner of the house, which was succeeded by the firm of MacKellar, Smith & Jordan. He became well known as a writer of hymns, among which are " In the Vineyard of Our Father " ; *• Book of Grace and Book of Glory " and *' There is a Land Immor- tal." He was president of the Typefounders' Association of the United States, and a member of various scientific societies. The University of Wooster, Ohio, conferred on him the honorary degree of Ph.D. in 1883. He is the author of : Tarn's Fortnight Rambles ; Droppings from the Heart ; Lines for the Oentle and Loving ; The American Printer, a Manual of Typographj/ (1866); Rhymes atween Times (MiTS); Hymns and II few Metrical I^alms (1887); Hymns and Later Poems (published by his executors, 1900). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29. 1899.

McKELWAY, St. Clair, journalist, was born in Columbia, Mo., March 15. 1845; son of Dr. Alexander J. and Mary A. (Ryan) McKelway. His father was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1812, came to America in 1817; became med-

ical director, U.S. volunteers, Army of the Poto- mac ; and died in 1885. His mother, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., 1813, died in 1899. The family removed from Missouri to New Jersey in 1853, where St. Clair McKelway was educated by private teachers. He wrote for i>apers in Trenton and was correspondent of the New York Tribune, 1863-65 ; and was admitted to tho bar in New York city in 1866, but at once resumed journal- ism. He was connected with the New York World as associate editor and Washington cor- respondent, 1866-70 ; was associate editor of the Brooklyn Eagle from January, 1870, to August 15, 1878, and editor-in-cliief of the Albany Argus thereafter till December, 1885. He then returned to the Brooklyn Eagle as editor-in-chief. He was elected by the legislature a regent for life of the University of the State of New York in 1883. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. from Colgate in 1883 ; LL.D. from Syracuse in 1890 ; L.H.D. from Union, in 1897 ; and D.C.L. from St. Lawrence in 1898. He was elected an honorary member of the Long Island and Suffolk County historical societies, the Society of Medical Juris- prudence, and the Albany Institute ; a director of the American Social Science association, and a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters. He became a voluminous writer and a frequent lecturer on educational, economic and ethical subjects. He was married in 1867 to Eleanor Hutchison of Boonville, Mo., who died in 1884 ; and secondly in 1888 to Virginia Brooks Thompson, daughter of Samuel W. Thompson of New York city.

McKENDREE, William, M.E. bishop, was born in King William county, Va., July 6, 1757, son of John and Mary McKendree. His father was a planter and shortly after the commencement of the Revolutionary war William joined the American army as a private, was advanced to the office of adjutant, and later placed in the com- missary department, and was present at the surrender of Corn- wallis at Yorktown. He engaged as a school teacher and was received into the Virginia con- ference of the Me- thodist church on trial in 1787. He was appointed to the Meck- lenburg circuit by Bishop Asbury in 1788, and to the Cumberland circuit as an assistant to John Barker in 1789. He was ordained a deacon in

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