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 McKENNEY

MACKENZIE

and settled in Scarborougli, Maine, in 1668. His paternal grandfather removed from Massachu- setts to Maryland in 1791, and liLs father was editor of the Independent Citizen, Belair. He attended Hartford academy, removed to Wash- ington, D.C., in 1845, was a student at Rugby academy, and in 1853 became assistant to the clerk of the U.S. circuit court.Washington, D.C. On Nov. 15, 1858, he was app<jinted junior assist- ant to Mr. Carroll, clerk of the supreme court of the United States, and in 1863, on the appoint- ment of Mr. Middleton as clerk, became acting deputy. In 1872 he was appointed deputy clerk of the supreme court of the United States, and on May 10, 1880, by the unanimous vote of the full bench of justices, he was elected clerk as successor to Mr. Middleton. He was secretary to the electoral commission in 1877. He was mar- ried to Virginia D. Walker, and of their sons, Frederic Duncan became a lawyer and Charles Albert a civil engineer.

McKENNEY, Thomas Lorraine, author, was born in Hopewell, Somerset county. Md., March 21, 1785. He attended school at Chestertown, Md., and engaged in mercantile business in Washington, D.C. He was appointed superin- tendent of the U.S. Indian trade by President Madison, April 2, 1816, as successor to Gren. John Macon. In 1819 an act of congress prevented the President from api>ointing officers for the trade department without the consent of the senate and he was re-appointed and confirmed. On March 11, 1824, a bureau of Indian Affairs was organized in connection with the war depart- ment and he was appointed chief of the bureau. In 1822 charges of favoritism and a corrupt abuse of his trust were preferred against him. The case was tried l>efore a committee of congress, where he was completely vindicated. He was a special commi&sioner with Oen. Lewis Cass in 1826 to negotiate an important treaty with the Chippewa Indians at Fond du Lac, Mich. Ty., and he also visited various tribes and induced them to remove their settlements west of the Mississippi river in 1827. He was dismissed from office, Oct. 1, 1829, by President Jackson. It was gen- erally believed that he was in default, but in 1833 all his accounts were settled in full. He is the author of: Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeica Indians and of the Incidents Connected with the Treat II of Fond du Imc (1827); A Histonf of the Indian Tribes (with James ilall,3 vols.. 1838-44); Essays (m the Spirit ofjacksonianism as Exem- plified in its Deadly Hostility to the Bank of the United Statrs (1835), and Memoirs. Official and Personal, with Sketches of Travels among the Northern and Southern Indians (1846). He died in New York city, Feb. 19, 1859.

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McKENZIE, Alexander, clergyman, was born in New Bedford. Mass., Dec. 14. 18J0; son of Daniel and Phebe Mayhew (Smith) McKenzie; grandson of Martin McKenzie, and a descendant of the Nantucket Coffins and Wateinuins. He was graduated from Harvard A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1861. He was ordained to the Congregational min- istry, Aug. 28, 1861; was pastor of South church, Augusta, Maine, 1861-67, and in 1867 became pastor of the First church (Congregational) in Cambridge, Mass. He was married, Jan. 24, 1865, to Ellen H., daughter of John H. Eveleth of Augusta, Maine. He was a lecturer on Biblical theo- logy at Andover seminary, 1881-82; on the theology of the New Testament at Harvard Di- vinity school, 1882-83; and a preacher to Harvard university, 1886-89. He lectured before the Lowell Institute. Boston, 1897-98, on " The Divine Force in the Life of the World." He was a mem- lier of the board of overseers at Harvard, 1872- 84, and in 1875 was elected secretary of the board. He was elected president of the board of trustees of Wellesley college; a trustee of Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and of the Hampton Institute, Virginia; president of the Boston Sea- man's Friend society, and a member of the Mas- sachusetts Historical society. He received the degree of D.D. from Amherst in 1879 and from Harvard in 1901. He is the author of: Tieo Boys (1870); Lectures on the History of the First Church in Cambridge (1873); Cambridge Sermons (1883); Some Things Abroad (1887); Christ Himself (1896); A Door Opened (1898); The Divine Force in the Life of the World (1899); and numerous sermons publislied in pamphlet form.

MACKENZIE, Alexander Slidell, naval officer, was born in New York city, April 6. 1803; son of

John and (Mackenzie) Slidell, and brother

of Senator John Slidell. He adopted his mother's surname as his own in 1837 upon the request of his maternal uncle. He was warranted midship- man in the U.S. navy in 1815: accepted the com- mand of a merchant vessel in 1822 in order to advance his seamanship; was commis.sioned lieutenant in 1825; commander in 1845, and served in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, Brazil and on the Pacific. He commanded the Dolj>hin during the siege of Bahia and was present at the