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 McQUAID

McQUEARY

ful charge, against the orders of his commander. In the seven days' battles he was the only regi- mental commander in Griffin's brigade who escaped death. Colonels Black, McLean, Gore, Woodbury and Cass meeting death between June

25 and July 2, 1862. His escape was con- sidered marvellous, as he was constantly exposed, and vir- tually led the regi- ments as second in command to General Griffin. The 2d brig- ade was at Centreville during the action at Manassas, and could not join the division, as the road was blocked and the bridges destroyed. In the defence of Mary- land against the invasion of General Lee, the brigade had a sharp engagement at Shep- herdstown, Va., and in the battle of Chancellors- ville, May 1-4, 1863, Colonel McQuade again commanded the 2d brigade until physically exliausted, when the command devolved on Col. J. B. Switzer. The regiment was shortly after ordered home, its term of service having expired, and was mustered out at Utica, May 24, i 863. Colonel McQuade was brevetted brigadier- Kt'neral and major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the civil war. He was department commander, G.A.R., in 1879, and held various political offices. He died in Utica, N.Y., March 25, 1885.

McQUAID, Bernard John, R.C. bishop, was horn in New York city, Dec. 15, 1833 ; son of Bernard and Mary (Maguire) McQuaid. He at- tended Chambly college, Canada, and was grad- uated from St. John's college, Fordham, in 1843. He was a tutor at St. John's college, 1843-46 ; studied theology at St. John's college ; was or- dained, Jan. 16, 1848, in St. Patrick's cathedral, New York city, by Bishop Hughes and was as- signed to the mission at Madison, N.J. He erected churches at Morristown and Springfield, N.J., and in 1853 he was transferred to St. Pat- rick's cathedral, Newark. He assisted Bishop Bayley in founding Seton Hall college and sem- inary first at Madison and then at South Orange, N.J. He was president of Seton Hall college, 1856-57 ; was recalled to his old position of rector of the cathedral at Newark in 1857 ; and was president and professor of rhetoric at Seton Hall college, 1859-68. In September, 1866, he suc- ceeded Father Moran as vicar-general of the dio- cese of Newark. He was consecrated the first

bishop of Rochester, N.Y., July 12, 1868, at New York city by Archbishop McCloskey, assisted by Bishops Bailey and Goesbriand. Ho organized the diocese ; introduced the Sisters of St. Joseph, and founded St. Andrew's preparatory seminary in 1870, and St. Bernard's Theological seminary in 1893. He was present at the Vatican council, 1869-70. He established in his diocese numerous Christian free schools, and to show the necessity of combining religious with secular education,^ and to demonstrate the wrong which he said was done to Catholic citizens by the system of double taxation, he lectured extensively and wrote articles in reviews.

McQUEARY, Thomas Howard, theologian and educator, was born near Charlottesville, Va., May 27, 1861 ; son of Thomas Howard and Sarah Jane (Harland) MacQueary ; grandson of William and Mary (Hall) MacQueary and of Clifton and Diana (Kinsolving) Garland, and a descendant of Scotch ancestors, who migrated to the north of Ireland and came to America before 1776. His ma- ternal grandparents were descended from prom- inent early Virginia families. He was educated in the parish school, engaged in farming, 1874- 79, and in 1879 entered mercantile business in Washington, D.C. He was a student at Nor- wood college. Nelson county, Va., 1880-81, and was graduated at the Virginia P. E. Tlieological seminary, June, 1886. He was ordered deacon, July 19, 1885, by Bishop Peterkin of West Vir- ginia, and was given charge of Christ church parish, Fairmount, W. Va. He was ordained priest in 1887 ; and was rector of St. Paul's church. Canton, Ohio, 1887-91. A declaration of his belief as embodied in his book " The Evolution of Man and Christianity" (1890), in which he espe- cially denied the virgin birth and bodily resurrec- tion of Jesus though asserting his divinity and spiritual resurrection, brought the attention of theologians to his departure from orthodoxy. He was invited by the Episcopal church congress to deliver an address on Biblical criticism before that body in Philadelphia in November, 1890, and this hastened his trial and conviction in January, 1891. He served out the six months' suspension required by the sentence of the ecclesiastical court and then asked the bishop to restore him to the ministry. The bishop availed himself of a canonical technicality which enabled him to change the sentence to an indefinite suspension and Mr. MacQueary thereupon renounced the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church and was formally deposed by Bishop Leonard in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1891. He entered the Universalist ministry and became pastor of the First Universalist church, Saginaw, Mich., in 1891, and of the Second Universalist church. Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 1, 1896. While here