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association in 1884, and of the Modern Language association of America in 1886. He is the author of numerous articles and papers in various peri- odicals and journals.

MACKIE, John Milton, author, was born in Wareham, Mass.. Dec. 19, 1813. He was grad- uated from Brown university, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835; studied at Andover Theological seminary, 1833-3^, in the University of Berlin, 1833-34, and was a tutor in Brown university, 1834-35. He then settled in Great Barrington, Mass., and en- gaged in cultivating a farm. He contributed articles on German history and literature to re- views and is the author of : Life of Godfrey con Leibnitz (1845); Life of Samuel Gorton in ♦' Sparks's American Biography " (1848); Cosasde Espaila, or Going to Madrid via Barcelona (1848) ; Life of Schainyl, the Circassian Chief (1856); Life of Tai- Ping -Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrec- tion (1857); From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics (1864). He died in Great Barrington, Mass., July 27. 1894.

McKIM, Alexander, representative, was born at Baltimore, Md., Jan. 10, 1748; son of Thomas and Agnes (McMorny) McKim, and grandson of John McKim of Londonderry, Ireland, who came to Pennsylvania, then removed to Baltimore, and afterward purchased a tract of land on the Brandy wine in Delaware, where he served fifteen years as one of the justices of the courts of New- castle county. He finally settled in Baltimore, where his descendants became prominent and in- fluential citizens. Alexander McKim acquired a good education and in 1778 was elected a repre- sentative in the Maryland a.sserably. During the Revokition he served in the field with the Balti- more Independent Cadets, which, as mounted in- fantry, accompanied Lafayette on his campaign into Virginia in 1780. In 1791 he was vice-presi- dent of the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery ; in 1794 was a member of the board of health, when the yellow fever was epidemic in Baltimore ; in 1797 was a member of a committee to divide the city into wards, and in 1805 was one of the charter members of tlie Baltimore water company. He was elected to the state senate in 1806, and was re-elected in 1808, and served as a Jefferson Democrat or anti-Federalist in the 11th, 12lh and 13th congiesses, 1809-15. With his brother Rol)ert in 1814, he was the first to erect steam mills in Baltimore for the manu- facture of cotton goods. They owned the Dolphin, a privateer, during the war of 1812. When General I^fayette visited Baltimore in 1825, Mr. McKim was on the reception committee, and was the only surviving member of the Balti- more company that served under that oflficer in the Revolution. lie wa-s the first president of the Merchant's National bank of Baltimore. He was

married to Catharine Sarah Davy, and had three daughters : Eliza, who married Capt. David Heath, U.S.N., Agnes, who married Nicholas Dubois, and Catharine Maria, who married Charles Singleton. Alexander McKim died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 18, 1832.

McKIM, Charles Follen, architect, was born in Chester county, Pa., Aug. 24, 1847; son of James Miller and Sarah Allibone (Si^eakman) McKim. He was a student at the Lawrence scientific school, Harvard, 1866-67, and at the

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Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1867-70. He settled in New York city as an arcliitect in 1872, and formed a partnership with William R. Mead and Stanford White in 1877. This firm soon took rank among the foremost architects in the coun- try. The buildings executed by them are mostly derived from the purest style of classic architec- ture. Mr. McKim's name is associated with the buildings of Columbia university ; Rliode Island state capital ; Brooklyn Institute ofr Arts and Sciences; Walker Art Gallery of Bowdoin college ; the Department of Architecture of Harvard uni- versity ; Boston Music Hall ; Boston Public Li- brary ; Agricultural and New York state buildings of the Chicago World's Fair ; Newport and Nar- ragansett casinos ; the University, Harvard, Cen- tury and German clubs, New York ; Bowery Bank ; Bank of Montreal ; churches at Stockbridge, Mass., and Morristown, N.J., besides works of monumental and memorial character and the de- sign of many city and country residences in New York city, Newport, R. I., Boston, Mass., and on the Hudson river at Hyde Park. He was elected, 1899, a member of the Accademia di San Luca, of Rome, the oldest art society in Italy. He was made a member of the art commission of New York, and of the commis.sion appointed by congress for the improvement of the Wash- ington park system ; a member of the American Institute of Architects, and of numerous societies in New York and elsewhere. He was one of the founders of the American academy in Rome, Italy. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard university in 1890, and from Bow- doin college in 1894.