McCRADY
McCRADY
the nullification struggle in 1832, was chairman
of the committee of correspondence of that party
in Charleston, and attended the nullification con-
vention in Columbia, S.C., as one of the agents
of the administration, reporting to Washington
on the transactions of each day. In behalf of tlie
Union party be made the question as to the oath
of allegiance prescribed by the nullification con-
vention, in a case reported as : " The State ex
relatione McCready vs. Hunt," published in
Hiirs Law Reports, and occupying half that
volume, which resulted in the overthrow of the
court which sustained his position. He was U.S.
district attorney, 1839-50, resigning to take an
active part in the organization of the co-operation
party of the south as against the immediate se-
cession party, and served for several years as a
representative in the legislature from Charleston.
He was a member of the state convention which
met in 1852, and in that body voted against an
ordinance declaring the right of peaceable seces-
sion, he maintaining that recession, however
justified, could only be a measure of war. He
was again a member of the state convention of
1860, in which he voted for the ordinance of se-
cession. He was recognized throughout the
United States as one of the most learned laymen
iu the Episcopal church. He represented St.
Philip's parish in the diocesan convention for over
fifty years consecutively, was for tliirty years a
member of the general convention of the church
in the United States and a member of the standing
committee of the diocese for forty .years, and was
a constant contributor to church reviews and
periodicals. Two of his articles, one on the
litany, written in his eightieth year, and the
other a review of Henry Drummond's '* Natural
Law in the Spiritual World," written in his
eighty-fourth year, attracted much attention.
He was married in 1829 to Louisa Rebecca,
daughter of Robert and Louisa (de Berni^re)
Lane, and granddaughter of Col. John de Ber-
nidre of the British army, who immigrated to
South Carolina in 1799. Of their children, four
sons and four daughters reached maturity :
Edward (q.v.) ; John (q.v.) ; Thomas, a dis-
tinguished officer in the Confederate army ; Louis
de Bernit^re, who, with his brother Edward and
his brother-in-law, Thoma« W. Bacot, formed
the law firm of McCrady & Bacot ; Louisa de
Berni^re, the wife of Thomas W. Bacot, Ellen
Madelina. Jane, and Mary Margaret. He died at
Charleston. S.C., in November, 1892.
ncCRADY. Edward, lawyer and historian, was born in Charleston, S.C, April 8, 1833 ; son of Edward and Louisa Rebecca (Lane) McCrady. He was prepared for college in private academies in Charleston, 1841-49 ; was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1853, and was admitted
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to tbe bar in 1855. He took part in the earliej-t
military operations during the civil war as captain
in the state service, Dec. 27, 1860. On April 13,
1861, he entered the Confederate States service
as captain of the first company raised *' for the
war " in South Caro-
lina, and was pro-
moted major and
lieutenant-colonel, Ist
S.C. volunteei-s, June
27, 1861. He served
in Jackson's corps in
Virginia, and being
disabled by wounds
he was in 1864 trans-
ferred to the com-
mand of the camp
of instruction at Ma-
dison, Fla. After
the war he was
major-general of the
state volunteer force.
He was married, Feb. 24, 1868, to Mary Eraser
Davie, granddaughter of Gen. William Richard-
son Davie (q.v.). He resumed the practice of law
in October, 1805, was a member of the South
Carolina house of representatives, 1880-90, and
was the author of state election and registration
laws popularly known as the " eiglit box law,"
and of other important measures. He was elected
a member of the Historical Society of South
Carolina, 1857 ; of the Elliot Society of Natural
History ; a trustee of the Cliarleston Library
society ; a trustee of the Medical College of South
Carolina and president of the Historical Society
of South Carolina. He received the honorary de-
gree of LL.D. from the College of Charleston in
1900. He is the author of: TJie History of South
Carolina under the Pi'oprietary Government, 1670-
1719 (1897) ; The History of South Carolina
under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 (1899) ;
The History of South Carolina in the Revolution,
1775-1780 (1901) ; The History of South Carolina
in the Revolution, 17S0-17SS (in preparation,
1901), and numerous legal, political and historical
essays and addresses.
McCRADY, John, scientist, was born in Charleston, S.C, Oct. 15, 1831 ; eldest son of Edward and Louisa Rebecca (Lane) McCrady. He was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1850 and began the study of law with his father, but soon abandoned it for scientific pur- suits. Attracting the attention of Louis Agassiz, then lecturing at the medical college at Charles- ton, by his invitation be became his private pupil, and as such accompanied him to Cambridge, Mass., where he spent three summers. He was one of the few American naturalists to be trained as such under the instruction of Agassiz, and the
