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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McExTEE MACKENZIE.) 



sume the office. He and Gen. Emory, of the United 

 States army, arrived at the State House at the _ same 

 time, and Judge McEnery surrendered the office to 

 the military, who reinstated Gov. Kellogg. Subse- 

 quently McEnery practiced law in New Orleans and 

 Washington. He was a brother of Samuel D. Mc- 

 Enery, ex-Governor of Louisiana, now associate jus- 

 tice of the State Supreme Court. 



McEntee, Jervis, artist, born in Eondout, N. Y., July 

 14, 1828 ; died there, Jan. 27, 1891. He was educated 



at the Liberal In- 

 stitute, Clinton, 

 Oneida County, N. 

 Y., the beautiful 

 village in which 

 Hamilton College 

 is situated, and 

 which has long 

 been noted for its 

 schools. The prin- 

 cipal of the insti- 

 tute wasDr. Thom- 

 as J. Sawyer, now 

 Professor of The- 

 ology in Tufts Col- 

 lege. With his wife, 

 fc " Caroline M. Saw- 

 yer, the author, he 

 made a delightful 

 homefortheyouths 

 under his charge, 

 and one of the most 

 charming visitors 

 there was young 

 McEntee,whomar- 

 ried Gertrude, eldest daughter of Dr. Sawyer. Mrs. 

 McEntee was a woman of great beauty, as her portrait, 

 painted from memory by her husband after her death, 

 attests, and of the rarest charms of character, as the 

 artists of the " Hudson Eiver School," who had quar- 

 ters in the familiar and famous studio building in 

 West Tenth Street, New York city, remember. In the 

 winters of 1850-'51 Mr. McEntee studied painting 

 with Frederic E. Church, in New York, but he did 

 not pursue that profession until three years later, 

 when he opened a studio in the metropolis. His first 

 contribution to the Academy of Design exhibition 

 was sent in 1853, and he was elected associate of that 

 organization in I860, and academician one year later. 

 In 1869, with his wife, he visited Europe, where he 

 studied in the principal art galleries, and sketched in 

 Italy and Switzerland. On his return he took the 

 studio in West Tenth Street, and devoted himself to 

 his art with an assiduity and success that soon placed 

 him in the front rank of American painters. In deli- 

 cacy and truth of delineation, in power to convey the 

 depth of his own feeling toward Nature and to suggest 

 her deeper charms, lie is second to none in this coun- 

 try. Shy, sensitive, and quiet, but genial and warm- 

 hearted, Mr. McEntee was as beloved by his friends 

 as he was admired for his work among the larger 

 circle of art lovers He oftenest represented Nature 

 in her autumn moods ; but a grouping of the work 

 of several years revealed the fact that there was no 



S'mse that he had not understood and interpreted, 

 e made the snow of his Hudson river home'as at- 

 tractive as his babbling brooks, and the glimpses of 

 ocean as strong in power to transport the lover of the 

 sea, as his glades and leaf-strewn woods were restful 

 and beautiful to those who knew them. He painted 

 figure pieces somewhat in later life, and his treatment 

 broadened with the change that a study of foreign 

 work brought to our youthful art. Among Mr. Mc- 

 Entee's more important pictures are : " The Melan- 

 choly Days have come" (1860); Indian Summer" 

 (1861); "Late Autumn" (1863); "October Snow" 

 (1870) ; " Sea from Shore " (1873) ; " A Song of Sum- 

 mer" (1876) ; " Virginia in 1863 " (1867) ; " Venice " 

 (1870) ; " Scribner's Mill " (1871) ; " Autumn," " Old 

 Mill in Winter," " Autumn Day," " Wood Path," 

 "Cape Ann" (1874); "Winter in the Mountains" 



(1876); " Clouds" (1879); Edge of a Wood," " No- 

 vember" (1880) ; " Kaatskill Elver " (1881) ; Autumn 

 Memory" (1883) ; "Valley of the Humboldt" (1882); 

 "Uplands in Autumn," "Wintry Eiver" (1883); 

 " Yellow Autumn Woods" (1884) ; " Christmas Eve," 

 "Sundown in Winter" (1885) ; " Asshokan Novem- 

 ber," " Glimpse of Hunter Mountain," " Shadows of 

 Autumn," and the "Winter Morning" (1886); "A 

 Clift in the Catskills " (1888). In the autumn of 1888 

 there was a sale in New York of seventy-five of his 

 pictures, representing what he considered his best 

 work for the preceding ten years, and in March, 1892, 

 a sale of more than 100 paintings left by him. 



McGowan, John, naval officer, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., Dec. 3, 1805; died in Elizabeth, N. J., Jan. 18, 

 1891. He went to sea when thirteen years old, and 

 was appointed a 3d lieutenant in the United States 

 revenue marine service on May 14. 1831. On July 

 11, 1834, he was commissioned 2d lieutenant; on 

 Feb. 17, 1841, 1st lieutenant: and on Dec. 3, 1852, 

 captain. During the war with the Seminole Indians 

 he was attached to the revenue cutter " Jackson," 

 which vessel, in May, 1836, went to the relief of the 

 defenseless people along the coast, and protected the 

 citizens of St. Mark's till the arrival of a military 

 force. He was the executive and, during a portion of 

 the time, commanding officer of the revenue cutter 

 " Forward " while that vessel co-operated with the 

 navy in the war with Mexico, and was present and 

 rendered efficient service in the attack on Tobasco 

 and in the capture of the enemy's vessel in the river 

 and harbor. In 1853 he resigned from the navy to 

 take command of one of George Law's merchant ves- 

 sels plying between Panama and San Francisco. On 

 Jan. 5, 1861, he left New York city in command of 

 the merchant steamer " Star of the West," with re- 

 enforcements and provisions for Major Anderson's 

 garrison in Fort Sumter. He reached Charleston bar 

 at 1.30 A. M. on the 9th, and expected to land his cargo 

 before daybreak; but as the Confederates had re- 

 moved all the harbor buoys and lights, he was 

 obliged to grope about in the darkness till early 

 dawn. His presence was soon reported, and armed 

 vessels were sent from Charleston to intercept him. 

 He continued on his course up the channel till, when 

 opposite Fort Moultrie, ho was fired on by a masked 

 battery on Morris Island. As he was unprepared to 

 resist, and received no support from the besieged gar- 

 rison in Fort Sumter, he had to turn about and head 

 to sea to avoid capture. This was the first shot fired 

 in the civil war, and the failure of the attempt to re- 

 lieve Fort Sumter was apparently due to the treason- 

 able elements in President Buchanan's Cabinet. On 

 Aug. 21, 1861, Capt. McGowan re-entered the naval 

 service with his former rank, and he was active till 

 his retirement in 1871. During the civil war he held 

 several important commands, and organized and di- 

 rected the famous little " Mosquito fleet "on Chesa- 

 peake Bay, for which he was highly commended. 

 After the war and till his retirement he sustained an 

 advisory relation to the Treasury Department. 



Mackenzie, George Henry, chess player, born near 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, March 24, 1837 ; died in New 

 York city, April 13-14, 1891. He received a col- 

 legiate education, was appointed an ensign in the 

 60th Bifles in 1856, and served two years with his 

 regiment at the Cape of Good Hope and in India; 

 was promoted lieutenant, but, returning to England, 

 sold his commission in 1861. He had gained consid- 

 erable fame as a chess player, and after leaving the 

 army he applied himself wholly to the game. For a 

 year he played privately against some of the best 

 players in London. In'l862 he made his first pro- 

 fessional appearance in the London tournament, in 

 which he defeated Herr Anderson, the Prussian 

 champion, who had given him the odds of pawn and 

 . move, and won two games each with Medley and 

 Deacon. In 1865 he came to New York city, joined 

 its chess club, and won first prize in the tournaments 

 of 1865, 186(i, 1867, and 1868, also defeating Eesch- 

 helm, the Philadelphia champion, in 1866 and 1867. 



