MELINE, JAMES F. 



and two years later having labored in Christ 

 Chnrcli, Georgetown, Md, received priest's 

 orders from Bishop Kemp of Maryland. 

 From 1825 to 1827 he was Professor of Ethics 

 and Chaplain in the United States Military 

 Academy at West Point. In the latter year 

 he -was called to the rectorate of St. Ann's 

 Church, Brooklyn, where he remained till 

 1832, when he was elected Bishop of the 

 Diocese of Ohio, and was consecrated October 

 31, 1832. In 1831 he had been appointed Pro- 

 fessor of the Evidences of Revealed Religion 

 and Sacred Antiquities in the University of the 

 City of New York. As Bishop of the Diocese 

 of Ohio, Bishop Mcllvaine sustained the re- 

 lation of Chancellor to Kenyon College and 

 President of the Theological Seminary at Gam- 

 bier, Ohio, and gave such instruction to both 

 on the evidences of Christianity as his other 

 onerous duties permitted. In his position as 

 bishop he won the esteem and respect of all 

 denominations of Christians, and exerted a 

 wide and powerful influence for good over 

 the Episcopal Church in the United States. 

 In 1853 he received the degree of D. C. L. 

 from the University of Oxford, and in 1858 

 that of LL. D. from the University of Cam- 

 bridge. During the late civil war he was 

 an active and efficient member of the Sanitary 

 and Christian Commissions, and visited Eng- 

 land to explain the position of the United 

 States Government on the questions then at 

 issue. He was present also at the Pan-Angli- 

 can Council, and at the time of his death had 

 been for many months in Europe in the hope 

 of benefit to his health. Bishop Mcllvaine 

 was an able and forcible writer. His published 

 works were : " Lectures on the Evidences of 

 Christianity," 1832 (these were delivered 

 before the University of New York) ; " Ox- 

 ford Divinity compared with that of the Roman 

 and Anglican Churches," 1841 ; " The Holy 

 Catholic Church," 1844; "The Sinner's Justi- 

 fication before God," 1851 ; "Ho Priest, no 

 Altar, no Sacrifice but Christ;" "Valedictory 

 Offering : Five Sermons," 1853 ; "A Word in 

 Season to Candidates for Confirmation ;" " The 

 Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 as to Confirmation;" "Chief Danger of the 

 Church ;"" " The Truth and the Life," a series 

 of Twenty-two Discourses, 1850 ; " Directions 

 to Inquiring Souls." Bishop Mcllvaine had 

 also edited " Select Family and Parish Ser- 

 mons, 2 vols., 1839; "Memoir of the Rev. 

 Henry W. Fox ;" and " Memoir of the Rev. 

 Charles Simeon." 



MELINE, Colonel JAMES F., an American 

 soldier and author, born in Sackett's Harbor, 

 N. Y., about 1813 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Au- 

 pust 14, 1873. His father was an officer in the 

 United States Army, and he had strong tastes 

 for a military life. He graduated from Mount 

 St. Mary's College, at Emmetsburg, and after- 

 ward studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar. lie was for some years engaged in the 

 banking business in Cincinnati, where he was 



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for a time connected with the Catholic Tele- 

 graph. For a short period before the break- 

 ing out of the civil war he was French consul 

 in Cincinnati ; but early in the war he entered 

 the army, and served on General Pope's staff. 

 In 1865-'66 he made the Rocky-Mountain trip, 

 the events of which he recorded in the volume 

 entitled "Two Thousand Miles on Horse- 

 back." He was afterward employed by the 

 Government in connection with the 1'reed- 

 men's Bureau in Georgia, during which time 

 he was a correspondent of the Tribune. His 

 latter years had been devoted entirely to lit- 

 erature, and he had been a regular contributor 

 to the Catholic World, in which his vindica- 

 cation of Mary Queen of Scots, in answer to 

 Mr. Froude, first appeared. This was after- 

 ward published in a volume. He wrote also 

 for the Galaxy, and the Nation, and was the 

 author of a " Life of Sixtus V.," and many 

 other smaller works. At the time of his death 

 he was completing a series of articles on Sa- 

 vonarola, three of which have been published. 

 In the early part of the summer Colonel Me- 

 line visited the Springs in West Virginia, in 

 company with Mr. Strother (Porte Crayon), 

 but deriving no benefit physically (he was 

 suffering from disease of the heart), he re- 

 turned after a short visit, and, by the advice 

 of physicians went to Saratoga. He remained 

 there only a few days, and then went home 

 to die. 



MEREDITH, "WILILAM MOEEIS, LL. D., an 

 eminent statesman and cabinet officer, born in 

 Philadelphia, June 8, 1799; died in that city, 

 August 17, 1873. He graduated early, and 

 with distinction from the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, studied law, and entered upon the 

 practice of his profession about 1820. From 

 1824 to 1828 he represented his native city in 

 the Pennsylvania Legislature, and from 1834 to 

 1849 was President of the Select Council of 

 Philadelphia. In 1837 he was chosen a mem- 

 ber of the convention for amending the consti- 

 tution of the State. On the inauguration of 

 President Taylor in 1849, Mr. Meredith was 

 nominated by him Secretary of the Treasury, 

 which position ho held till the death of the 

 President in 1850. In 1861 he became Attor- 

 ney-General of his State, and filled that office 

 until 1867. He was a member of and presided 

 over the recent Constitutional Convention in 

 Pennsylvania, and from his experience in pub- 

 lic affairs was one of the most valuable mem- 

 bers of that body. As a lawyer, Mr. Meredith 

 occupied for many years the foremost rank in 

 his native State, and was constantly engaged 

 in important cases, both in the Supreme Court 

 of Pennsylvania, and that of the United States. 

 As an able and ready legal debater, he had 

 few equals and scarcely any superiors in this 

 country. 



METHODISTS. I. METHODIST EPISCOPAL 

 CHURCH. The following is a summary of the 

 statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

 in the United States for 1873: 



