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mand of the Florida Maffitt took about fifty-five prizes. His son, E. A. Maffitt, was midshipman on the Confederate cruiser Alabama, Captain Semmes. He retired to North Carolina after the war and died in Wilmington, N.C., May 15, 1886.

MAQAW, Samuel, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1735. His parents were natives of Cumberland county, Pa. He was grad- uated from the University of Pennsylvania with its first class, A.B., 1757, A.M., 1760. He went to England to receive ordination, was ap- pointed a missionary of the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel, at Dover and Duck Creek, Delaware, and took a prominent part in founding the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States. He was rector of St. Paul's church, Phil- adelphia, 1771-1804; vice-provost and professor of moral philosophy in the University of the State of Pennsylvania, 1782-91, and assisted the Rev. James Abercrombie, D.D.,in founding the Acad- emy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the City of Philadelphia in 1785. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society in 1774. He was married to Lucia, daughter of Andrew Doz of Philadelphia. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of the State of Pennsylvania in 1783. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Deo. 1, 1812.

MAQEE, John, representative, was born in Easton, Pa., Sept. 3, 1794; son of Henry and Sarah (MulhoUand) Magee. He received a common- school education;,wa8 a soldier in the war of 1812, and was taken prisoner and escaped. In 1818 he settled in Bath, Steuben county, N.Y., and was elected constable and in 1821 became sheriff of the county. He was a representative from New York in the 20th and 21st congresses, 1827-31; declined the cabinet position of secretary of state in President Jackson's cabinet in 1831, and the same year he established the Steuben county bank at Bath, and was its president during the remainder of his life. He built the Blossburg and Corning railroad in 1851 and in 1859 opened the Fall Brook Coal mines and was made presi- dent of the company. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867. He died in Bath, N.Y., April 5, 1868.

MAQIE, William Francis, educator, was born in Elizabeth, N.J., Dec. 14, 1858; son of Chan- cellor William Jay and Sarah Frances (Baldwin) Magie. He attended Dr. John F. Pingry's school in Elizabeth, N.J.; was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1882, and remained there as instructor in physics, 1879-84. He studied and travelled abroad, 1884-85, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1885. He was appointed professor of physics at Princeton in 1885. He was elected a member of the American

Philosophical society in 1897 and of the American Physical society in 1899. He was married, June 7, 1894, to Mary Blanchard, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Caspar Wistar Hodge. He published: Trans- lation of Christiansen's Elements of Theoretical Physics (1896); Revision of Anthony and Brack- etVs Physics (1896); The Second Law of Ther- modynamics (1899); besides articles for scientific journals, including papers on Capillarity (1885, 1886, 1888); The Rontgen Radiance in Surgery (1896) and The Specific Heat of Solutions (1899).

MAGIE, William Jay, jurist, was born in Elizabeth, N.J., Dec. 9, 1839; son of the Rev. David and Ann Frances (Wilson) Magie; grand- son of Michael and Mary (Meeker) Magie and of James and Eleanor (Arrowsmith) Wilson; and fi, descendant of John MacGhie, born in Scotland, 1659, came to Perth Amboy, N.J., in 1685, and soon removed to Elizabethtown. David Magie graduated from the College of New Jersey, 1817, was a trustee of the college, 18D5-65, and for forty-five years was pastor of the First Presby- terian church of Elizabeth. William Jay Magie was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1855; taught school in Virginia, 1852-53; read law with Francis B. Chetwood, of Elizabeth; and was admitted to the bar in 1856, and as a counsellor in 1859. He practised in Elizabeth, 1856-80. He was married, Oct. 1, 1857, to Sarah Frances, daughter of Jediah and Abby (Johnson) Baldwin. He was prosecutor of pleas of Union county, 1866-71; a state senator, 1877- 79, serving with distinction on the judiciary committee, and declining renomination in 1878. He was associate justice of the supreme court, of New Jersey, 1880-97; chief justice, 1897-1900, and in April, 1900, was appointed by Governor Voorhees, chancellor of the state of New Jersey. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1891 from Princeton and in the same year was elected a trustee of the university.

MAGILL, Edward Hicks, educator, was born in Solebury, Pa., Sept. 24, 1825; son of Jonathan P. and Mary W. Magill, grandson of Jacob and Rebecca, (Paxton) Magill, and a descendant of Scotch ancestry who settled in the north of Ireland and immigrated to the United States. He matri- culated at Yale college with the class of 1853, but left at the close of his freshman year and was graduated at Brown university in 1852- He was principal of the class' ical department. Providence high school, 1852-69 and sub-master at the Latin school, Boston, Mass., 1859-67. He visited Europe, 1867-68, was principal of the preparatory department of S warthmore col- lege, 1869-71; president of that institution, 1817-