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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McGLYNN 



1874 and 1875 he was city attorney for Bayonne, 

 N. J. In these years he was also a member of 

 the New Jersey Legislature.. In April, 1878, he 

 was appointed prosecutor of the pleas for Hud- 

 son County. In 1883 he became law judge of the 

 same county. March 29, 1887, he was appointed 

 Chancellor of New Jersey, and in 1894 was re- 

 appointed, holding the ollice at the time ot his 

 death. In 1895 he was defeated as the Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor. He received the 

 degree of LL. D. from Princeton College, and that 

 of LL. B. from Columbia Law School. 



McGlynn, Edward, clergyman, born in New 

 York city, Sept. 27, 1837 ; died in Newburg, N. Y., 

 Jan. 7, 1900. He attended the public schools and 

 the Free Academy. At fourteen he was sent by 

 Archbishop Hughes to the College of the Propa- 

 ganda, in Rome. He received the degree of doctor 



of philosophy in 

 1856 and of the- 

 ology in 1860. He 

 was ordained a 

 priest in March, 

 1860. In Octo- 

 ber he was re- 

 called to New 

 York by Arch- 

 bishop Hughes, 

 and appointed as- 

 sistant to the Rev. 

 Thomas Farrell 

 at St. Joseph's 

 Church, on Sixth 

 Avenue. His zeal, 

 learning, and elo- 

 quence soon at- 

 tracted general 

 attention. For a 

 time he was pro- 

 rector of St. Bridget's, in Avenue B; then as- 

 sistant at St. James's, in Oliver Street; then 

 rector of St. Ann's, in Twelfth Street; and also 

 chaplain of the Central Park Military Hospital; 

 and finally pastor of St. Stephen's, early in 1865. 

 He was in requisition everywhere to speak at the 

 laying of corner stones and dedication of churches, 

 and for lectures for charitable purposes. He aided 

 substantially the Rev. Dr. (now Cardinal) Vaughan 

 iri establishing in the United States Catholic mis- 

 sions for the colored race. His artistic taste and 

 judgment are recorded in the enlargement and 

 paintings of St. Stephen's, and he erected its splen- 

 did altars. Convinced that the state was wise in 

 bringing the children of all races in the country 

 into contact in the public schools, he maintained 

 that the Church could do its work effectively 

 among the children without competing with the 

 state in their secular education; and, dreading lest 

 the Church should ever have the appearance of 

 being bribed into political partisanship, he favored 

 an amendment to the Constitution providing that 

 state money should be given only to state insti- 

 tutions. During the Irish land league agitation 

 under Davitt in 1879-'80 Dr. McGlynn's sympa- 

 thies were strongly enlisted. He was captivated 

 by Henry George's Progress and Poverty, and 

 when Davitt came to New York, in June. 1882, 

 to enlist the people here against landlordism in 

 Ireland, Dr. McGlynn told him that " the new 

 gospel was not only for Ireland, England, ;nid 

 Scotland, but for America too." Henry George 

 shortly afterward paid him a visit, which was the 

 beginning of an intimate friendship. When Car- 

 dinal Simeoni, head of the Propaganda in Rome, 

 notified Cardinal McCloskey, in the autumn of 

 1882, to require from Dr. McGlynn a condemna- 

 tion of his teachings, the doctor published in the 



New York Tablet an explanation which was a 

 justification of them, but, by an agreement with 

 Cardinal McCloskey, he refrained from land league 

 meetings. In the autumn of 1886 he took an ear- 

 nest interest in Henry George's candidacy for the 

 mayoralty of New \ ork, and he was announced 

 to speak at the opening meeting of the campaign, 

 in Chickering Hall, on Sept. 30. Archbishop Corri- 

 gan sent him a private prohibition from attending 

 this meeting, but he excused himself because of his 

 public engagement to speak. The archbishop 

 thereupon suspended him for two weeks. To a 

 summons from Cardinal Simeoni to % go to Rome, 

 he replied that his poor health prevented this, 

 but he reiterated the strongest expression of his 

 teaching of the land theory. Archbishop Corrigan 

 renewed the suspension, and in January, 1887. 

 summarily removed him from St. Stephen's. Later, 

 in March, 1887, being assured by Cardinal Gib 

 bons, then in Rome, that neither the Pope nor 

 Cardinal Simeoni had passed judgment on him, but 

 invited him to go to Rome, he agreed to go if 

 reinstated. By a misunderstanding, this message 

 was not properly delivered, and the Pope, per- 

 suaded that he absolutely refused, ordered Dr. 

 McGlynn's excommunication to take effect if 

 within forty days he did not go to Rome. The 

 time elapsed on July 2, 1887. This excommunica- 

 tion for his supposed contumacy lasted till Dec. 

 23, 1892, when the Pope's delegate, Mgr. Satolli. 

 released him from it, after Dr. McGlynn had sub- 

 mitted to him the exposition of his economical 

 teaching, which was declared to contain nothing 

 contrary to Catholic faith. Dr. McGlynn, on 

 March 29, 1887, had made an address on The Cross 

 of the New Crusade, which led to the formation 

 of the Anti-Poverty Society for the spreading of 

 his theories of political economy. This society held 

 meetings in the Academy of Music and Cooper 

 Institute on Sunday evenings till the end of Janu 

 ary, 1893, at which Dr. McGlynn gave a series of 

 eloquent explanations of the theory, mainly in its 

 relations to the brotherhood of men as founded on 

 the fatherhood of God. By his own wish. Dr. 

 McGlynn was not attached for some time to 

 any parish, that he might be free to lecture, but 

 in the beginning of 1895 he was assigned by Arch- 

 bishop Corrigan to the rectorship of St. Mary's 

 parish, in Newburg. where he zealously exercised 

 the duties of the sacred ministry till his death. 

 Dr. McGlynn gave proofs of his great knowledge 

 and wonderful command of language in his ser- 

 mons, addresses, and lectures, none of which were 

 written. His charity was unbounded; his sympa- 

 thy with distress made him give his all for its 

 relief. 



McNair, Frederick Vallette, naval odic'-r. 

 born in Jenkintown. Pa.. Jan. 13, 1839; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Nov. 28, 1900. He was 

 graduated at the United States Naval Academy 

 in 1857; made passed midshipman, June 25, is<;0; 

 promoted master. Oct. 24. 1800: lieutenant, April 

 18, 1861; lieutenant commander, April 20, lsr, : 

 commander, Jan. 29, 1872; captain, Oct. 30. 1883: 

 commodore. May 10, 1895; and rear-admiral, July 

 3. 1898. His first service was on the frigate Min 

 nesota; later he served in China and in tin- Kii*1 

 India service. In 1859 he was attached to the 

 coast survey steamer Varuna. In 1861 he wa? 

 transferred to the Iroquois, of the Western Gulf 

 squadron, and participated in the bombardment 

 of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the capture of 

 New Orleans, passage both ways of the Vicks- 

 burg batteries, and the destruction of the Con- 

 federate ram Arkansas. From October. 1S(12. till 

 February, 1863, he was executive officer of the 

 Juniata, and from February till August. 186:!. lie 



