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McKIM

McKIM, Isaac, representative, was born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1775 ; son of John and Margaret (Duncan) McKiin, and grandson of Thomas and Agnes (McMorny) McKim. In 1796 he engaged in business with his father as a shipping merchant in Baltimore, and later was also in the copper business. He was extensively engaged in the South American trade, in which he amassed a large fortune. He owned the clipper Ann McKini, one of the fleetest and most noted vessels of that day. In 1812 Isaac McKim advanced to the city of Baltimore $50,000 to aid in improving its defences, and wlien the Britislj army approached Baltimore in September, 18 U, he became a volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. Samuel Smith, and took part in the battle of North Point with the Maryland militia. He was an active politician of the Jeffersonian school. He served one term in the Maryland senate ; and he was a representative from Balti- more in the 17th, 18th, 23d, 24th and 25th con- gresses, 1821-25. and 1833-39. In congress he was known as the advocate of sailors' rights. He was active in the early banking interests of his native city, and was also a promoter of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, serving as a member of its first board cf directors. His father late in life joined the Society of Friends, and donated land for the founding of a free scliool in Baltimore. Isaac and his brother, William D. McKim, in order to carry out their father's plan, erected on the land tlie McKim building, in which a school was conducte 1 under the auspices of the Friends and was still in existence in 1901. He was mar- ried to Ann Hollins and left no descendants. He died in Baltimore, Md., April 1, 1838.

McKIM, James Miller, abolitionist, was born nevr Carlisle, Pa.. Nov. 14, 1810 ; son of James and Catharine (Miller) McKim, and grandson of

James McKim (1756- 1794), the first emi- grant to America, who came from the north of Ireland. He was graduated at Dickinson college, 1828 ; studied medi- cine at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and theology at Princeton, 1831, and at Andover, 1832. In October, 1835, he became pastor at Womelsdorf, Pa., and a year later a lec- turing agent of the American Anti-Slavery society. In 1840 he married Sarah Allibone Speakman, and having withdrawn from the

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Presbyterian church and devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause, he removed to Philadelphia to become publishing agent of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery society, and later corresiwnding secretary, serving until 1862. In November, 1862, he called a public meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia to decide upon the disposition of the 10,000 slaves that had been suddenly liberated in South Carolina, and to provide for their im- mediate wants. The Philadelphia Port Royal Relief Committee was organized as an outcome of this meeting. Mr. McKim early advocated the enlistment of the freedmen in the army, througli the Union League club of Philadelphia, of which he was a member, and aided in the es- tablishment of Camp William Penn and in re- cruiting eleven negro regiments. Upon the en- larging of the Port Royal Relief Committee into the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association in November, 1863, he was made its correspond- ing secretary, and was active in establishing schools for negroes at the South. In 1865 he be- came corresponding secretary of the American Freedman's commission, with headquarters in New York, and so continued till its disband- ment on his motion in 1869. He was a founder and proprietor of the New York Nation in 1865. He died in Llewellyn Park, N.J., June 13, 1874. McKIM, John, second missionary bishop of Tokyo, and the 167th in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born inPittsfield, Mass.. July 17, 1852. He was graduated at Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wis., in 1879, having been ordered a deacon at All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wis., June 16, 1878, by Bishop Brown, who advanced him to the priesthood in 1879. He worked in the diocese of Chicago for a brief time and then joined the workers in the missionary district of Tokyo, Japan, in charge of theRt. Rev. Channing Moore Williams. He founded seventeen stations and sub-stations from his headquartei-s at Csaka, and in March, 1893, he was elected to the bish- opric by the House of Bishops assembled in New- York city. He was consecrated in St. Thomas's church. New York city, June 14, 1893, by Bishops Littlejohn, Lyman, Dudley, Scarborough, Kin- solving and Dr. Alfred Barry, primate of Aus- tralia. On his return to Japan he assumed the ad- ministration of the missionary district of Tokyo as successor to the Rt. Rev. C. M. Williams, who had resigned in October, 1889. In 1898 the gen- eral convention divided the Japan mission into two missionary districts, Tokyo and Kyoto, the latter being under the charge of the Rt. Rev. C. M. Williams up to the time of the election of the Rev. Sidney Catlin Partridge, who was con- secrated in 1900. Bishop McKim received the honorary degree of D.D. from Nashotah House and Trinity college in 1893.