McKIM
McKIM
McKIM, Isaac, representative, was born in
Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1775 ; son of John and
Margaret (Duncan) McKiin, and grandson of
Thomas and Agnes (McMorny) McKim. In 1796
he engaged in business with his father as a
shipping merchant in Baltimore, and later was
also in the copper business. He was extensively
engaged in the South American trade, in which
he amassed a large fortune. He owned the
clipper Ann McKini, one of the fleetest and
most noted vessels of that day. In 1812 Isaac
McKim advanced to the city of Baltimore $50,000
to aid in improving its defences, and wlien the
Britislj army approached Baltimore in September,
18 U, he became a volunteer aide on the staff of
Gen. Samuel Smith, and took part in the battle
of North Point with the Maryland militia. He
was an active politician of the Jeffersonian
school. He served one term in the Maryland
senate ; and he was a representative from Balti-
more in the 17th, 18th, 23d, 24th and 25th con-
gresses, 1821-25. and 1833-39. In congress he was
known as the advocate of sailors' rights. He was
active in the early banking interests of his native
city, and was also a promoter of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, serving as a member of its
first board cf directors. His father late in life
joined the Society of Friends, and donated land
for the founding of a free scliool in Baltimore.
Isaac and his brother, William D. McKim, in
order to carry out their father's plan, erected on
the land tlie McKim building, in which a school
was conducte 1 under the auspices of the Friends
and was still in existence in 1901. He was mar-
ried to Ann Hollins and left no descendants. He
died in Baltimore, Md., April 1, 1838.
McKIM, James Miller, abolitionist, was born nevr Carlisle, Pa.. Nov. 14, 1810 ; son of James and Catharine (Miller) McKim, and grandson of
James McKim (1756- 1794), the first emi- grant to America, who came from the north of Ireland. He was graduated at Dickinson college, 1828 ; studied medi- cine at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and theology at Princeton, 1831, and at Andover, 1832. In October, 1835, he became pastor at Womelsdorf, Pa., and a year later a lec- turing agent of the American Anti-Slavery society. In 1840 he married Sarah Allibone Speakman, and having withdrawn from the
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Presbyterian church and devoted himself to the
anti-slavery cause, he removed to Philadelphia
to become publishing agent of the Pennsylvania
Anti-Slavery society, and later corresiwnding
secretary, serving until 1862. In November,
1862, he called a public meeting of the citizens
of Philadelphia to decide upon the disposition of
the 10,000 slaves that had been suddenly liberated
in South Carolina, and to provide for their im-
mediate wants. The Philadelphia Port Royal
Relief Committee was organized as an outcome
of this meeting. Mr. McKim early advocated
the enlistment of the freedmen in the army,
througli the Union League club of Philadelphia,
of which he was a member, and aided in the es-
tablishment of Camp William Penn and in re-
cruiting eleven negro regiments. Upon the en-
larging of the Port Royal Relief Committee into
the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association
in November, 1863, he was made its correspond-
ing secretary, and was active in establishing
schools for negroes at the South. In 1865 he be-
came corresponding secretary of the American
Freedman's commission, with headquarters in
New York, and so continued till its disband-
ment on his motion in 1869. He was a founder
and proprietor of the New York Nation in 1865.
He died in Llewellyn Park, N.J., June 13, 1874.
McKIM, John, second missionary bishop of
Tokyo, and the 167th in succession in the Ameri-
can episcopate, was born inPittsfield, Mass.. July
17, 1852. He was graduated at Nashotah House,
Nashotah, Wis., in 1879, having been ordered a
deacon at All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee, Wis.,
June 16, 1878, by Bishop Brown, who advanced
him to the priesthood in 1879. He worked in the
diocese of Chicago for a brief time and then
joined the workers in the missionary district of
Tokyo, Japan, in charge of theRt. Rev. Channing
Moore Williams. He founded seventeen stations
and sub-stations from his headquartei-s at Csaka,
and in March, 1893, he was elected to the bish-
opric by the House of Bishops assembled in New-
York city. He was consecrated in St. Thomas's
church. New York city, June 14, 1893, by Bishops
Littlejohn, Lyman, Dudley, Scarborough, Kin-
solving and Dr. Alfred Barry, primate of Aus-
tralia. On his return to Japan he assumed the ad-
ministration of the missionary district of Tokyo
as successor to the Rt. Rev. C. M. Williams, who
had resigned in October, 1889. In 1898 the gen-
eral convention divided the Japan mission into
two missionary districts, Tokyo and Kyoto, the
latter being under the charge of the Rt. Rev. C.
M. Williams up to the time of the election of
the Rev. Sidney Catlin Partridge, who was con-
secrated in 1900. Bishop McKim received the
honorary degree of D.D. from Nashotah House
and Trinity college in 1893.
