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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McHuon MALLEY.) 



during President Harrison's administration, and on 

 being vetoed was reintroduced with the objection- 

 able portions omitted, and was adopted by the Senate, 

 but failed of passage in the House oy delay. 



McHugh, E. J., clergyman, born near Dublin, Ire- 

 land, in 1865; died in Great Barrington, Mass., Feb. 

 24, 1894. He accompanied his parents in childhood 

 to Great Barrington, where he was educated in the 

 public schools and in the College of the Holy Cross ; 

 studied three years at Innspruck, Austria ; and was 

 ordained a Koman Catholic priest there in June, 1889. 

 Returning to the United States, he was attached to 

 the diocese of Manchester, N. II., for two years ; was 

 a professor in St. Mary's College, Burlington, Vt., for 

 a year ; was assistant rector of the Church of the Im- 

 maculate Conception, St. Albans, Vt., till September, 

 1892, and was last stationed with the Church of the 

 Sacred Heart, Wilton, N. 11. While abroad he was a 

 regular contributor to the " Irish Ecclesiastical Rec- 

 ord," and after his return wrote many poems for the 

 " Ave Maria " magazine and other publications. He 

 had recently published " The Knight of Achenthal 

 and Other Rimes." 



Mackaye, James Steele, actor and playwright, born in 

 Buffalo, N. Y., in 1842 ; died in Timpas, Col., Feb. 25, 

 1894. In 1868 he went to Paris with the intention of 

 studying painting, but, becoming acquainted with 

 Francois Delsarte and impressed with his theories of 

 dramatic expression, he abandoned art and studied 

 with Delsarte till the opening of the Franco-Prussian 

 War. He then returned to the United States ; gave a 

 series of lectures in New York city, in Boston, and in 

 Harvard University on the science of dramatic art 

 and expression, and produced two plays, " Monaldi " 

 and " Marriage," in the St. James Theater, New York. 

 In 1872 he went to London, where he had an engage- 

 ment to play " Hamlet " at the Crystal Palace, and at 

 its close began a tour of the provinces, which ill 

 health cut short. While in London, it is claimed, he 

 assisted Tom Taylor in writing " Arkwright's Wife " 

 and " Clancarty," and Charles Reade in writing " Jeal- 

 ousy," and began, with the aid of the author, a drama- 

 tization of George Eliot's " Silas Marner." In 1875 he 

 returned to New York city and produced at Union 

 Square Theater an original adaptation of Blum's 

 " Rose Michel," which had considerable success. The 

 following year he brought out " The Twins" at Wai- 

 lack's Theater; in 1877, the comedy "Won at Last" 

 at the same house; and in 1878 a melodrama, first 

 called " Through the Dark " and subsequently, with 

 its scenes changed from England to the United States, 

 " Money Mad," at the Fifth Avenue Theater. In 1879 

 he organized a dramatic company, revived his u Won 

 at Last " in a small hall on the site of the first Fifth 

 Avenue Theater, and secured financial aid in carry- 

 ing out some original ideas, which resulted in the 

 present Madison Square Theater with its double 

 stage and other innovations. The new theater was 

 opened in 1880 with Mr. Mackaye's domestic drama 

 "Hazel Kirke," which had a run of five hundred 

 nights, during which his connection with the theater 

 ceased. He built the Lyceum Theater in 1885, but 

 lost its management soon afterward, and in 1887 he 

 produced in Buffalo a play, first called " Anarchy " 

 and afterward " Paul Kauvar," which under its last 

 name had a long run in New York. 



Macleod, James Farquharson, Canadian jurist, born in 

 Toronto in 1836 ; died in Calgary, Sept. 5, 1894. He 

 was graduated at Queen's College, Kingston, and be- 

 came a barrister at law. He served as brigade major 

 of militia in the Red river expedition in 1870, and was 

 created a commander of the Order of St. Michael and 

 St. George for his services. He was appointed cap- 

 tain in the mounted police in 187C; commissioner in 

 command of this force and a member of the North- 

 west Council in 1876; and in 1880 was appointed 

 stipendiary magistrate with civil and criminal juris- 

 diction over the entire Northwest Territory. 



McNevin, John, painter, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 

 1821; died in . Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., March 1, 

 1894. He studied art under Maclise, Macdowall, Mul- 



ready, and Landseer, and his first notable work was 

 a large cyclorama of the World's Exhibition in Lon- 

 don in 1851. This was followed by a panorama of 

 " London by Night." In the early part of the Cri- 

 mean War he was sent to the field to sketch for the 

 u Illustrated London News", and also to gather ma- 

 terials for a panorama of the contest. On "his return 

 with a large mass of sketches, he had some difficulty 

 with his employers, and as a result he came to the 

 United States. He entered the publishing house of 

 Harper & Brothers, and was among the first illus- 

 trators of " Harper's Weekly," becoming a pioneer 

 u special artist on the spot." He was principally en- 

 gaged on full-page illustrations of notable events. 



McNierny, Francis, Roman Catholic bishop, born in 

 New York city, April 25, 1828 ; died in Albany, N. Y., 

 Jan. 2, 1894. He received his early education in pri- 

 vate schools, studied the classics and philosophy at 

 the College of St. Sulpice in Montreal, and took" the 

 theological course at the Grand Seminary there in 

 1849-'54. While at the seminary he was acting proc- 

 urator for one year and instructor in belles-lettres 

 for two years. In 1854 he received minor and priestly 

 orders, and was immediately stationed at the cathe- 

 dral in New York and appointed chaplain to Arch- 

 bishop Hughes. For three years he acted as master 

 of ceremonies on all solemn occasions in the cathe- 

 dral. In 1857 he was appointed chancellor of the 

 diocese of New York, and from 1859 till 1871, as secre- 

 tary to the archbishop, or of the diocese, or of the 

 council, he was intimately connected with the manage- 

 ment of affairs. He was considered an authority on 

 all matters pertaining to the ceremonials of the Church. 

 On Dec. 22, 1871, he was appointed by Pius IX Bish- 

 op of Resina and coadjutor of Albany, N. Y. ; on 

 April 21, 1872, he was consecrated; on Jan. 18, 1874, 

 he was made administrator of the diocese; and on the 

 resignation of Bishop Conroy, Oct. 16, 1877, he became 

 Bishop of Albany. 



Mallery, (rarrick, ethnologist, born in Wilkesbarre, 

 Pa., April 23, 1831 ; died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 

 24, 1894. He was graduated at Yale College in 1850, 

 and received the degree of LL. D. from the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in 

 Philadelphia in 1853. From 1853 till the beginning 

 of the civil war he practiced law and engaged in 

 editorial work in Philadelphia. At the first call for 

 volunteers he was appointed a captain in the 71st 

 Pennsylvania Regiment. He distinguished himself 

 at Fair Oaks, in the Seven Days' battles, at Win- 

 chester, and in the defense of Washington in 1864. 

 He became lieutenant colonel of the 13th Pennsyl- 

 vania Cavalry ; was wounded, taken prisoner, and 

 confined in Libby Prison ; and received 4 brevets for 

 meritorious conduct in the field. In 1866 he was 

 commissioned a captain in the regular army, in 1870 

 was detailed for meteorological service with"the chief 

 signal officer of the army, and till 1876 was executive 

 officer of the Signal-service Bureau. Investigations 

 made by him into the sign language of the Indians 

 while in command of Fort Rice, Dakota, in 1876 led 

 to his being assigned to Major Powell's geological and 

 geographical survey of the Rocky mountain region 

 for special duty in connection with the ethnology of 

 the North American Indians. He was retired from 

 the army in July, 1879, on account of his wounds, 

 and became chief of the Bureau of Ethnology on its 

 organization later in the same year. In 1881 he was 

 chairman of the anthropological section of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 His publications include : "A Calendar of the Dako- 

 tah Nation " (1877) ; u The Former arid Present Num- 

 ber of our Indians" ; "Introduction to the Study of 

 the Sign Language among the North American In- 

 dians as illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind" 

 (1880) ; " A Collection of Gestures, Signs, and Signals 

 of the North American Indians " (1880) ; " Sign Lan- 

 guage among the North American Indians compared 

 with that among other Peoples and Deaf Mutes " 

 (1881); "Manners and Meals"; "Pictographs of the 

 North American Indians" (188(1) ; "Israelite and In- 



