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1844-45 ; was admitted on trial to the Vir- ginia conference in November 1845, and was sta- tioned at Williamsburg. In 1846 he was trans- ferred to the Alabama conference, and was pas- tor of the St. Francis Street church. Mobile, Ala.,

in 1846 ; was pastor at Demopolis, Ala., 1847 ; Columbus, Miss., 1848 ; and New Orleans, La., 1848-58, where he had for the most part negro congregations. He became editor of the New Orleans Chris- tian Advocate in 1851, and of the Nashville, Tenn., Christian Ad- vocate in 1858, suc- ceeding John B. Mc- Ferrin, who was made agent of the Methodist book concern. He was transferred to the Montgomery conference during the civil war and served as pastor of the church in Montgomery, Ala. He was one of the four bishops elected in 1866 on the retirement of Bishops Soule, Andrew and Early and in 1873 be- came president of the board of trust for the erec- tion of Vanderbilt university by the terms of the first gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt of $r)00,000, which Bishop McTyeire had been influential in securing. He introduced tlie motion that re- sulted in the provision for lay delegates in the Southern conference in 1866, and was vice-presi- dent of the "Western section of American Metho- dism in the oecumenical conference in 1881. He received the honorary degrees of A.M. and D.D. He is the author of : Duties of Christian Masters (1851); Catechism on Church Government (1869); Catechism on Bible History (1869); Manual of Discipline (1870); History of Methodism (1887). He died in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 15, 1889.

McVAY, Hugh, governor of Alabama, was born in South Carolina, in 1788. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary army and a farm- er. Hugh received a limited education, and in 1807 removed to Mississippi territory and settled in Madison as a planter. He represented Mad- ison county in the territorial legislature, 1811-18, and in 1818 on the formation of Alabama terri- tory he removed to Lauderdale county, and in 1819 represented that county in the convention at Huntsville, Ala., that framed the state consti- tution. He was a representative in the Alabama legislature, 1820-25 ; a state senator, 1825-37, and 1838-44 ; and was elected president by the state senate in 1836, defeating Samuel B, Moore by one vote. He became governor of Alabama, ex

officio, on the resignation of Governor Clement C. Clay, who was elected to the U.S. senate in June, 1837, and was relieved of his duties in the follow- ing December, when Governor Bagby was inaug- urated. He married Miss Hawks of South Caro- lina. He died in Lauderdale county, Ala., in 1851.

MacVEAQH, Wayne, cabinet officer, was born near Phoenix ville. Pa., April 19, 1833. He was graduated from Yale in 1853, and was ad- mitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1856. He settled in practice in Westchester ; was district attorney for Chester county. Pa., 1859-62; and was chairman of the Republican state committee in 1863. He served as captain in the emergency in- fantry in 1863 and as major in the cavalry in 1863, and on the staff of General Couch. He was U.S. minister to Turkey by appointment of President Grant, 1870 -71 ; and a delegate to the Pennsylvania

constitutional convention of 1873. He was a member of the commission sent to Louisiana by President Hayes in April, 1877, to endeavor amicably to adjust the disputes of the con- flicting state governments in the state and secured the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from New Orleans and the restoration of peace. He was attorney -general in the cabinet of President Garfield, March 4 to Sept. 19, 1881, when he re- signed to resume the practice of law in Phila- delphia. He was an Independent Republican until 1892, when he supported Grover Cleveland for the presidency. He was U.S. ambassador to Italy, 1893-97, by appointment of President Cleveland, and resigned March 1, 1897, resuming the practice of law in Washington, D.C. He was for many yearschairman of the Civil Service Reform association of Philadelphia, and of the Indian Rights association of the same city. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Amlierst in 1881, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897, and from Harvard univer- sity in 1901.

McVEY, Frank Le Rond, economist, was born in Wilmington, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1869 ; son of Al- fred Henry and Anna (Holmes) McVey ; grand- son of Edmund and Mary (Eastlack) McVey and of William and Mary (Cowgill) Holmes, and a descendant of John McVey who settled in Penn- sylvania in 1856 ; and of Obediah Holmes, who settled in Ma^achuaetts in 1632. He attended