parks in Washington. D. C, by his comrades of the Army of the Tennessee.
Mcpherson, John Roderic, senator, b. in
Livingston county. N. Y., 9 May, 1833 : d. in Jer-
sey City, 8 Oct., 1897. He was educated in Gene-
seo academy, and engaged in farming and stock-
raising, removing to tludson City. N. J., in 1858.
He was president of the Pludson City board of al-
dermen in 1860-3, the principal mover in the estab-
lishment of the People's gas company, and served
for several years as its president. He was in the
state senate in 1870-'3, opposed railroad monopo-
lies, and secured the enactment of the general rail-
road law of New Jersey. He was presidential elec-
tor on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876,
the same year was chosen TJ. S. senator as a Demo-
crat, and was re-elected in 1883, and again for a
third term in 1889. His course in the U. S. sen-
ate was independent and conservative, and he often
voted against his party associates on financial and
tariff issues. In finance he belonged to the school
known as hard-money men and he had no respect
for a depreciated currency, whether of silver or
paper. On the tariff issue he was classed as a
moderate protectionist.
Mcpherson, William, soldier, b. in Phila-
delphia, Pa., in 1751 ; d. near there. 5 Nov., 1813.
He was appointed a cadet in the British navy at
thirteen years of age, became adjutant, and re-
signed at the beginning of the Revolution, but his
resignation was not accepted until 1779. At this
date he joined the American army, with the rank
of brevet-major, served as aide-de-camp to Lafay-
ette, and in 1781 was appointed by Washington to
command an irregular corps of cavalry in Vir-
ginia. He became surveyor in 1789, inspector of
the revenue in 1792, and from the next year until
his death was naval officer of the port of Philadel-
phia. During the disturbances in the western
counties of Pennsylvania in 1794 regarding the
excise law, he commanded the " McPherson Blues,"
a battalion of militia that was named in his honor.
Before the return of the army he was promoted
colonel, and subsequently became brigadier-general
of Pennsylvania militia. On the prospect of war
with France in 1798, the Blues were reorganized,
with additional companies, and formed into a le-
gion under his command. In 1799 he was ap-
pointed brigadier-general of the provisional army,
and commanded the troops that were sent to en-
force the revenue laws in Northampton county
during the Fries rebellion.
Mcpherson, William, lawyer, b. in Boone
county, Ky., 15 Feb., 1813 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1872. He was to a large degree self-educated,
studied law, and was admitted to the bar at the
age of twenty-one. After practising for several
years in Kentucky and Arkansas he removed to St.
Louis. The great bridge that crosses the Missis-
sippi at this place was built very largely through
his exertions, and the first railroad to St. Louis
was constructed by his aid. He held high offices
in the Baptist denomination, and promoted its be-
nevolent objects by generous contributions.
McQUADE, James, soldier, b. in Utica, N. Y.,
27 April, 1829 : d. there, 25 March, 1885. He was
educated in a Roman Catholic institution in Mon-
treal, Canada, where he became an excellent lin-
guist. On his return to Utica he studied law,
which he abandoned for banking, and subsequent-
ly for politics. In 1851-'3 he was assistant clerk
of the assembly, and in 1859 he served one term in
that body. At the beginning of the civil war he
was captain of the Utica citizens' corps, which en-
listed as a company of volunteers at the first call
for troops, and in April, 1861, he became colonel
of the 14th New York regiment. He served at
Malvern Hill, and, in consequence of the death of
other colonels, took command of his brigade for
eighteen months. Although ill at the battle of
Chancellorsville, he insisted on doing duty, and
participated in the fight until he fell exhausted
from his horse. He was brevetted brigadier-gen-
eral and major-general of volunteers, 13 March,
1865. After the war he served in various civic ca-
pacities, was an active politician, and was de-
partment commander of the Grand army of the
republic in New York in 1879. He published sev-
eral army songs, one of the best known of which is
" The Loyal Legioner."
McQUAID, Bernard John, R. C. bishop, b. in
New York city, 15 Dec, 1823. He is of Irish par-
entage. After studying at Chambly college, near
Montreal, Canada, and at St. John's college, Ford-
ham, where he finished his classical course in 1843,
he was tutor at St. John's for three years, until the
Jesuits took charge of the institution. He then
studied theology under the Lazarists in a seminary
that occupied the site of the present New York
cathedral, and afterward under the Jesuits at St.
John's college. He was ordained priest, 16 Jan.,
1848, in the cathedral of New York, by Archbishop
Hughes, and assigned to the mission of Madison,
N. J. He built churches at Morristown and Spring-
field, and began one at Mendham ; but in Septem-
ber, 1853, on the erection of the new diocese of
Newark, he was transferred to the future cathe-
dral to prepare the way for the incoming bish-
op, Bayley. He conceived the idea of founding
Seton Hall college and seminary, and it was main-
ly to his untiring efforts that the success of the
institution was due. He was president of it for
ten years — at IMadison and afterward at South
Orange — remaining for three years of the time rector of the cathedral at Newark. On 12 July, 1868,
he was consecrated first bishop of Rochester. He
organized the diocese rapidly and devoted himself
to building churches, paying off church debts,
erecting parochial residences, and founding parochial schools. To secure teachers for these schools
he introduced the Sisters of St. Joseph into the
diocese, and the order already numbers 200 members, and has under its care about twenty-two
school-houses and orphan asylums. He also found- ed St. Andrew's preparatory seminary. He is best
known for the part he has taken in the agitation for religious schools. To justify his course in
founding such schools and to impress Roman Catholics with a sense of obligation to support them, he
wrote and lectured extensively; and it is mainly to his efforts and influence here and at Rome that
the old policy of his church in regard to education has been revived and carried out in this country.
It is commonly supposed that the movement which he began tends toward a demand for a share of
public money for sectarian schools ; but he maintains simply that it is not the business of the state
to educate any children whose parents are able to pay for their education. At the close of a lecture
in Boston, 3 Feb., 1876, he declared his principles to be, for " a republic whose citizens are of differ-
ent religious beliefs and are votei's needing intelligence " : 1st, The non-interference of the state in
religious matters, in church or in school ; 2d, compulsory knowledge, through parents' schools, under
parents' control, and at their cost ; and 3d. free trade in education, or no monopoly of the teacher's
profession. He was present at the Vatican council in 1869-'70, and has since visited Europe. . He has lectured frequently, delivered addresses on public
