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a college, an academy, an orphan asylum, and the first free school in Frederick. After twenty-three years of work there he was transferred to Trinity church, Georgetown, but the following year. Presi- dent Polk having requested the council of bishops in Baltimore to select chaplains for the Roman Catholic soldiers in tlie Mexican war. Father McEl- roy was one of the two priests that were chosen for that duty. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he accepted' the oiSce, and was so faithful in the dis- charge of his duties that he was frequently men- tioned in the highest terms in the despatches from the seat of war. At the close of hostilities he was made pastor of St. Mary's church, Boston, Mass., where he paid special attention to the subject of education, building Boston college and the Church of the immaculate conception. Father McElroy continued in the active performance of his priestly duties until he was past eighty years old. When fourscore and ten he became blind, and retired to Frederick, Md., in his last years. When he died he was the oldest Jesuit in the world.

McELROY. Mary Arthur, b. in Greenwich, Washington co., N. Y., in 1842. She is the young- est child of the Rev. William Ar- thur {q. v.) and the sister of Chester A.Arthur. Hered- ucation was com- pleted in Troy, at the seminary of which Mrs. Emma Willard was prin- cipal. In 1861 she married John E. McElroy, of Al- bany, and since that event she has resided in that city. During the administration of her brother she made her home

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the winter season, and dispensed the hospitalities of the White House with rare social tact, the place being one for which she was peculiarly fitted by her personal character and previous associations.

McENTEE, Jervis, artist, b. in Rondout, N. Y., 14 July, 1828; d. there, 27 Jan., 1891. He studied with Frederic E. Church in New York, but later engaged in business in Rondout. This he relinquished after three years, and, opening a studio in New York, devoted himself thenceforth wholly to art. He first exhibited at the Academy of design in 1853, and was elected an associate in 1860, and academician one year later. In 1869 he visited Europe, sketching in Italy and Switzerland, and studying in the principal galleries on the continent. Mr. McEntee usually delineated Nature in her more sombre aspects, and there is in his paintings a latent sentiment not often found among landscape-painters. He was especially successful in autumnal scenes. His more important works are “The Melancholy Days have come” (1860); “Indian Summer” (1861); “Late Autumn” (1863); “October Snow” (1870); “Sea from Shore” (1873); “Cape Ann” (1874); “A Song of Summer” (1876); “Winter in the Mountains” (1878); “Clouds” (1879); “The Edge of a Wood” (1880); “Kaatskill River” (1881); “Autumn Memory” (1883); “Shadows of Autumn” and “The Kaatskills in Winter” (1884); “Christmas Eve” (1885); and “Shadows of Autumn” (1886).

McFADDEN, Obadiah B., jurist, b. in Wash- ington county. Pa., in 1817 ; d. in Olympia, Wash- ington territory, 25 June, 1875. He was elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1843, and was prothonotary of Washington county. Pa., in 1845. In 1853 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon territory, and in 1854 to the same office in Washington territory. In 1858 he became chief justice of Washington territory, which office he held until the autumn of 1861. He represented his district in the legislative council, and was also elected a delegate from Washington territory to congress as a Democrat, to serve from 1 Dec, 1873, till 3 March, 1877.

McFARLAND, Amanda R., missionary, b. in Brooke county, Va., about 1837. She was educated at Steubenville female seminary, and in 1857 mar- ried Rev. David F. McFarland, a Presbyterian clergyman. From 1862 till 1866 her husband held charge of Mattoon female seminary. 111., and in 1867 removed to Santa Fe to engage in mission work in New Mexico. Here Mrs. McFarland or- ganized and conducted a successful mission-school among Mexican children. In 1873 they removed to California and established an academy at San Diego, and in 1875 they conducted missions among the Nez Perces Indians. After Mr. McFarland's death in 1876 his wife removed to Portland, Ore- gon, and in 1877 took charge of a school at Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Here she acted as clergyman, physician, and lawyer for the Indians, who brought their difficulties for her solution. She was called to preside over a native constitutional convention, and chiefs came long distances to enter the school of "the woman who loved their people," and to plead that teachers should be sent to their tribes. Her efforts resulted in the establishment of a training-school for Alaskan girls which is called " The McFarland Home," of which institution she now (1888) has charge.

McFARLAND, Francis Patrick, R. C. bishop, b. in Franklin, Pa., 16 April. 1819 ; d. in Hartford, Conn., 12 Oct., 1874. He was educated for the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's college, ordained in New York city on 18 May, 1845, and after act- ing for a year as professor at St. John's college, Fordham, and for several months as assistant priest in New York city, was appointed to the mission of Watertown, N. Y., and in 1851 made pastor of St. John's church, Utica. On 14 March, 1858, he was consecrated bishop of the see of Hartford, and. like the two first bishops, made Providence his resi- dence. In 1872, when the Roman Catholic popu- lation of the diocese had grown to more than 200,000, the new see of Providence was erected, and Bishop McFarland removed to Hartford and there engaged in the erection of a cathedral, with an episcopal palace and a convent, continuing the work until his health failed.

MACFARLANE, Alexander, lawyer, b. in Wallace, Nova Scotia, 17 June, 1818. After receiving an education from private tutors he studied law, was called to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1844, and acquired a large practice. He was in the Nova Scotia legislature from 1856 until the union of 1867. In 1865 he became a member of the executive council of the province, and holds rank and precedence as such by patent from the queen. He was one of the delegates from Nova Scotia to the colonial conference in London to complete the terms of union in 1866-7, and in the latter year was appointed queen's counsel. On 10 Oct., 1870, he was called to the senate. In politics he is a conservative, and his speeches in the senate have been marked by dignity and breadth of view.