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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McCARROLL MANN.) 



ical sciences. Besides membership in other scientific 

 societies, he was in 1873 elected to the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. The degree of LL. D. was conferred 

 on him by Harvard in 1879. His papers, more than 100 

 in number, may be found in the tiles of the " Proceed- 

 ings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," 

 the " Proceedings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science," the " American Jour- 

 nal of Science," the " Journal of the Franklin Insti- 

 tute," the " American Almanac," the " North Ameri- 

 can Review," " The Old and New," and " The Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly." His most important researches 

 are included in several papers on the aurora, terres- 

 trial magnetism, and the determination of transatlan- 

 tic longitudes, which appeared in vols. ii and ix of the 

 " Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences," also in vol. x, which consists of his results 

 on " Aurora Borealis " (Boston, 1873). Besides the 

 foregoing, he edited an improved edition of John Far- 

 rar's " Electricity and Magnetism " (1842). A bio- 

 graphical memoir of his career, by Josiah P. Cooke, 

 will appear in the forthcoming volume of " Biograph- 

 ical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences." 



McCarroll, James, journalist, born in Lanesboro, 

 County Longford, Ireland, in 1815; died in New 

 York city, April 10, 1892. He went to Canada while 

 a youth, and was there educated and engaged in lit- 

 erary work. He was a contributor to the " Morning 

 Chronicle" of Quebec, and for a long time was mu- 

 sical critic of the " Leader " and the " Colonist " of 

 Toronto. During his residence in Canada he held 

 important offices under the Government, and became 

 widely known for his classical, scientific, and musical 

 knowledge. From .Canada he removed to New York 

 city, and resumed work in journalism, contributing 

 poems, musical and dramatic criticisms, scientific 

 articles, essays, and reviews to the newspapers and 

 magazines. He was author of several dramas and 

 novels, a popular lecturer, a musician, and a musical 

 composer. He invented several useful articles, in- 

 cluding a safety elevator for hotels and offices. 



McCrady, Edward, lawyer, born in Charleston, S. C., 

 March Hi, 1802; died there, Nov. 17, 1892. He was 

 graduated at Yale in 1820, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1824. In 1832 he took the side of the Union- 

 ists in the nullification struggle, and was chairman of 

 the committee of correspondence of the Union party 

 in Charleston. From 1832 till 1850 he was United 

 States District Attorney, and, after resigning, he joined 

 the Southern Rights Association, which was opposed 

 to secession, but favored the maintenance of Southern 

 institutions through co-operation of the States. He 

 believed in the right of secession. In 1852 he was 

 elected to the Legislature, where he served several 

 terms, and in 1860, as a member of the State conven- 

 tion, he voted for and signed the ordinance of seces- 

 sion. During the civil war he continued in practice, 

 and was chiefly engaged in causes arising from the 

 Sequestration act. For fifty years he represented St. 

 Philip's Church in the Protestant Episcopal diocesan 

 convention, and for thirty years was a delegate to the 

 General Convention. He was the oldest living gradu- 

 ate of Yale, the oldest member of the South Carolina 

 bar, and the last prominent participant in the nullifi- 

 cation movement. 



McKinley, David Allison, merchant, born in Canton, 

 Ohio, in 1829; died in San Francisco, Gal., Sept. 18, 

 1892. He was a brother of Gov. William McKinley, 

 of Ohio, was educated at Alleg^hany College, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and became a clerk in his father's store' in 

 Canton. He went to California during the gold ex- 

 citement in 1852, was engaged in mining and lumber- 

 ing till 1864, and then established himself in the coal 

 and wood business in San Francisco. He was active 

 in Eepublican politics, a presidential elector in 1876, 

 United States consul at the Sandwich Islands in 

 1880-'85, and on his retirement from that office was 

 appointed consul-general of Hawaii at San Fran- 

 cisco, which office he held continuously till his death. 



MoEae, John E,, engraver, born in Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land,^ 1816; died in Bayonne, N. J., Aug. 23, 1892. 



He learned the art of steel-plate engraving and print- 

 ing in his native city ; came to New York in 1857 : 

 was in business for himself for more than twenty-five 

 years ; and afterward entered into partnership with 

 J. C. Lang, printer and publisher,with whom lie re- 

 mained six years. He executed many steel-plate 

 engravings, including " The Marriage of Pocanon- 

 tas," " First in Peace," " The Landing of Columbus," 

 " Signing the Declaration of Independence," and 

 " The Perils of our Forefathers." The best collec- 

 tion of his engravings, from the original plates, is 

 that in the national Capitol at Washington, D. C. 



Maeder, Gaspard, scenic painter, born in New York 

 city about 1840; died there, Jan. 18, 189^. He waa 

 employed in youth at Wallack's Theatre, where he 

 studied scenic painting under Isherwood, the artist of 

 that house. From Wallack's he went to the Globe 

 Theatre, in Boston, and, after several years there, 

 returned to New York, and with Lafayette Seavey 

 opened a studio in Lafayette Place, where the firm 

 made a specialty of painting scenery for traveling 

 companies till the partners separatea. Mr. Maeder 

 then went into a partnership with Schatt'er, which 

 lasted till the death of the former. Mr. Maeder was 

 equally facile in painting interiors, exteriors, and 

 landscapes. His scenic work included the scenery 

 for Saran Bernhardt's first production of" Theodora" 

 in this country ; that for the several spectacular pro- 

 ductions at Niblo's by the Kiralfys; the large battle 

 scene in " Shenandoah " ; the scenery in the " Club 

 Fiend " ; a large part of that in the " Queen of Sheba," 

 at the Metropolitan Opera House ; and some of the 

 best pieces in the Lyceum Theatre. 



Manly, Basil, educator, born near Dangerfield, S. C., 

 Dec. 19, 1825; died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 31,1892. 

 He was a son of the Rev. Basil Manly, D. D., Presi- 

 dent of the University of Alabama from 1837 to 1855, 

 was graduated at tfiat institution in 1843, and at 

 Princeton Theological Seminary in 1847, and was or- 

 dained a minister of the Baptist Church in 1848. He 

 held pastorates at Providence and Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; 

 became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Rich- 

 mond, Va., in 1850 ; President of the Richmond Fe- 

 male Institute in 1854; and on the organization of the 

 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, 

 S. C.. he was chosen one of the original professors, tak- 

 ing the chair of Old Testament Interpretation and Bib- 

 lical Introduction, which he held at the time of his 

 death. In 1871 he was elected President of George- 

 town College, Kentucky, but in 1879 he resumed his 

 old chair in the Southern Baptist Seminary, which 

 had been removed to Louisville. With his father he 

 compiled the "Baptist Psalmody " (Charleston, 1850), 

 and independently he published " A Call to the Min- 

 istry " (Philadelphia, 1857). 



Mann, William Julins, theologian, born in Stuttgart, 

 Germany, May 29, 1819; died in Boston, Mass., June 

 20, 1892. He received a classical training in his na- 

 tive place, studied theology at Tubingen, and was 

 ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in 

 1841. He served as assistant pastor in Wiirtemberg 

 until 1845, when he came to this country with his 

 intimate friend and former classmate, the Rev. Philip 

 Schaff, with whom he remained at Mercersburg, Pa., 

 until his removal to Philadelphia, which was his 

 home until his death. In 1850 he was called as the 

 colleague of Dr. Demme and Rev. G. A. Reichert to 

 the pastorate of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran 

 Church, Philadelphia, and from 1863 until 1884 he 

 was pastor of this congregation, retiring in the latter 

 year as pastor emeritus. He was editor of the " Kirch - 

 enfreund" from 1854 to 1860, a monthly theological 

 journal. During his pastorate in Philadelphia the 

 Lutheran interests in the German language were con- 

 centrated in one strong organization, reporting 2,500 

 communicant members, scattered all over the city, and 

 having services for many years in three churches, 

 where the pastors took their turns in officiating, until 

 the erection of the present Zion Church, since which 

 time services have been held in one church. With 

 systematic arrangement of his time', he was enabled 



