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ment of Maclay college. In 1856, becoming dis- satisfied with the management of the Bible Union, he withdrew, publishing his reasons for so doing. He was a trustee of the University of the City of New York, 1830-38, and secretary of the board, 1832-38. He was twice married, first to Mary, daughter of William Brown of Glasgow, Scotland, and secondly to Julia Ann Walker. He compiled a Hymn Book supple- mental to '* Watts's Psalms and Hymns." He died in New York city, May 2, 1860.

MACLAY, Edgar Stanton* author, was born in Foocl»ow, China, April 18, 1863; son of the Rev. Dr. Robert Samuel and Henrietta Caroline (Sperry) Maclay. He was a student at Syracuse university, 1881-85, and received his A.B. degree from there in 1886, and that of A.M. on examina- tion in 1888. He studied in Germany, France, and England, 1885-86, with special reference to preparing a naval history of the United States. He engaged in newspaper work on the Brooklyn, N.Y., Times, 1886-90; on the New York Tribune^ 1890-93; on the editorial staff of the Tribune, 1893-95, and also on the editorial staff of the New York Sun, 1894-95. He was lighthouse keeper at Old Field Point, Long Island, 1895-1900, and on Sept. 7, 1900, was appointed to a position in the U.S. navy yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. He was married, Dec. 22, 1894, to Elatherine Koerber. He gained considerable notoriety in 1901 on the appearance of the third volume of " A History of the United States Navy," which in its first two volumes was adopted as a text-book in the U.S. Naval academy. The new volume included the Spanish- American war after the capture of Manila, and in his account of the naval operations in Cuban waters Mr. Maclay, in a series of para- graphs, reflected on the conduct of Rear-Admiral Schley. These reflections resulted in a court of inquiry on the conduct of the Admiral, held in Washington in September, 1901, followed by a re- quest from the secretary of the navy for Maclay's resignation, Dec. 23, 1901. The volume in which the offensive article ap[>eared was ordered to be withdrawn from the Naval Academy, and the legislature of Maryland had it removed from the state library in 1902. Mr. Maclay edited Journal of U.S. Senator William Maclay (1889), and is the author of: History of the Maclay Family (1888); A History of the United States Navy (1894; rev. ed., 2 vote., 1898; new ed., 8 vols., 1901); Reminiscences of the Old Navy (1898); The History of American Privateers (1899), and articles in the Century, Harper's, and other magazines.

MACLAY, Robert Samuel, missionary and educator, was born in Concord, Pa., Feb. 7, 1824; son of Robert and Arabella (Erwin) Mac- lay. He was graduated at Dickinson college, A.B.,

1845, A.M., 1848; entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1846, and on Oct. 13, 1847, sailed as a missionary to Foochow, China. He was married, July 10, 1850. to Hen- rietta Caroline Sperry, at Hong Kong, China. He a-ssisted in translating the New Testament in the Foochow dialect and was superintendent and treasurer of the Foochow mission, 1852-72. He was transferred to the Japan mission in 1872 as superintendent and treasurer; assisted in trans- lating the New Testament into Japanese; was a delegate from Japan to the ecumenical con- ference, London, England, 1881, and helped to found the Anglo-Chinese college at Foochow, China, 1881. He was married secondly in San Francisco, Cal., June 6, 1882, to Sarah Ann Barr. He obtained permission from the king of Korea to establish Christian missions in his kingdom in 1884. He established the Anglo-Japanese col- lege, Tokyo, 1883, and was its president, 1883-87; established the Philander Smith Biblical insti- tute, Tokyo, 1884, and was its dean, 1884-87. He was ministerial delegate from Japan to the general conference of the M.E. church. New York, 1888, and was dean of the Maclay College of Tlieology, San Fernando, Cal., 1888-93. He retired from active educational work in 1893 and continued his home at San Fernando. Dickinson conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1861. He is the author of: Life among tJie Chinese (1861); Dictionary of the Chinese Language (1871), and sketches of the Japan M.E. missions for Reid's History of Methodist Missions.

MACLAY, Samuel, senator, was born in Cum- berland county, Pa., June 7, 1741; son of Charles and Eleanor (Query) Maclay. He assisted his brother William in surveying the officers* grant on the Susquehanna. He served during the Revolutionary war in the Northumberland county troops as lieutenant-colonel, and was as- sociate judge of the county, 1792-95; representa- tive in the 4th congress, 1795-97; state senator, 1797-1802, and speaker, 1801-02. During his term of office as state senator he presided over an im- peachment trial against the protest of the opposi- tion. He was U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, 1803-08, and resigned l^efore the end of his term on account of failing health. He died in North- umberland county. Pa., Oct. 5, 1811.

MACLAY, William, senator, was born in New Garden, Pa., July 20, 1737; son of Charles and Eleanor (Query) Maclay, and grandson of John Maclay and of William Query. His father immi- grated to America in 1734, lived at New Gcirden, Chester county, 1734-40, and in 1740 removed to Cumberland county. W^illiam was a pupil of the Rev. John Blair, at Big Spring, and .served as a lieutenant in Gen. John Forbes's expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1758, and in Gen. Henry Bou-