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the kind in the world. In 1856 he established the " Typographic Advertiser." In 1883 the Univer- sity of Wooster, Ohio, conferred on him the degree of Ph. D. He published "The American Printer " (1866), the fifteenth edition of which has been is- sued, and in his maturer years he has become known for his poetical productions, of which he has written and published several volumes. All of them were revised and issued, with other of his writings, under the title of " Rhymes Atween Times " (Philadelphia. 1873).

McKENDREE, William, M. E. bishop, b. in King William county, Va., 6 July,- 1757: d. in Sumner county, Tenn., 5 March, 1835. Shortly after his birth the family residence was changed to Greenville county. His father was a planter, and the son was trained for the same calling. In 1810 the family removed to Sumner county, Tenn. At the beginning of the Rev- olution, William, then twenty years of age, joined a company of volunteers, was for some time an adjutant in the service, and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Corn- wallis. At the end of the war he returned to private life, and

would never accept a

pension. His opportunities for gaining an educa- tion were very small, yet after leaving the army he served for a time as a school-teacher, and in his pub- lic life, in both his preaching and writings, he dis- played a good understanding of the English lan- guage, as well as nluch sound learning and breadth of thought. Before leaving home he had become connected with the Methodist church, but it was not till 1787, when he was residing in Brunswick county, Va., that he became thoroughly awakened in the religious life. Soon after this he was li- censed to preach, and in 1788 Bishop Asbury ap- pointed him as junior preacher to Mecklenburg cir- cuit. After this he served successively for several years upon neighboring circuits, and in 1793 he was sent to South Carolina, but returned the next year, and for three years had charge of a vast dis- trict that extended from Chesapeake bay to the Blue Ridge and Alleghany mountains. In 1798 his appointment was in the Baltimore conference, and in 1800 he went with Bishop Asbury and Bishop Whateoat to the western conference, which met that year at Bethel. Ky. He was appointed to superintend a district that embraced a large part of the partially settled territory beyond the Alle- ghany mountains. In this pioneer work he passed the next eight years — a kind of evangelistic Daniel Boone, but without any of his savagery — with a yearly pittance for his support of from twenty to less than fifty dollars. In the wonderful revival of those years, in all that region, out of which grew the Cumberland Presbyterian church, he was at once an inspiring and directing spirit, and it is claimed that he, more than any other man, saved that great work from degenerating into a wild and ruinous fanaticism. Some have believed that his ministry during these years contributed largely to save the great west from falling into a condition of godless barbarism. He continued to preside over this work till the spring of 1808, when he came to the general conference at Baltimore, and was there elected and ordained bishop. His first episcopal tour of 1,500 miles extended through Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois. In October he was at the conference in middle Tennessee, and by his wonderful preaching and his administrative ability inspired both the zeal and the confidence of the preachers. He continued to travel at large through the whole country, sometimes prostrated by rheumatism and fevers, but presently again in the saddle, pushing forward to new labors ; and at the general conference of 1816 he found himself left, by the death of Bishop Asbury, the only bish- op of his church. Two additional bishops were then chosen, and so the work proceeded, with a less severe strain upon himself. He continued tO' labor till 1835, when his health failed utterly. He was never married, never received a collegiate di- ploma, nor left even a brief record of his eventful life. See his '• Life and Times," by Bishop Robert Paine (2 vols.. 1859).

McKENDEY, William, soldier, d. in Canton, Mass., in 1798. He was quartermaster of Ichabod Alden's Massachusetts regiment, holding the rank of lieutenant, and was at Cherry Valley, but es- caped the massacre. He was with Gen. James- Clinton's force that joined Sullivan's expedition against the Six Nations, and his journal is pub- lished in the " Proceedings of the Massachusetts- Historical Society " (2d series, vol. ii., 1886).

MACKENNA, Juan, Chilian soldier, b. in Monaghan, Ireland, 26 Oct., 1771; d. in Buenos Ayres, 21 Nov., 1814. At the age of thirteen he left Ireland by order of his uncle, Count O'Reilly, who destined him for the Spanish military service, entered the Royal academy of mathematics in Barcelona, and in 1787 was appointed cadet in the corps of military engineers. He served during the African campaign in 1787-'8 in the garrison of Ceuta, and later in the campaign of Roussillon against the French republic, and at first rose rapidly in rank, but afterward, remaining for a long time without promotion as brevet lieutenant-colonel, he thought himself neglected, and determined to seek his fortune in the New World. He obtained leave, and left in 1796 for Peru with warm recommendations from his uncle to the Viceroy Ambrosio O'Higgins, an Irishman, like himself. He was favorably received, and in 1797 appointed civil and military governor of the colony of Osorno, Chili, which place he filled till 1808. In 1809, when an English invasion was threatened, Mackenna, as the most experienced military officer in the country, was commissioned to erect fortifications along the coast, and take the necessary measures of defence, but in 1810, dissatisfied with the Spanish government, he joined the revolutionists, and became an ardent defender of the cause of independence. Early in 1811 he was appointed provisional governor of Valparaiso, and in September of the same year became a member of the governing junta, under the auspices of José M. Carrera, and at the same time commander-in-chief of artillery and engineers, with the rank of colonel. By a mutiny that was headed by the brothers Carrera, he lost his place in the government, but retained the command of the artillery, till, as he continued his opposition to Carrera, he was banished to the province of Rioja. In 1813 he was recalled, commissioned to make a strategical map of the republic, and appointed chief of staff for the army of the south, to repel the invasion of Pareja. He assisted in the campaign and was promoted brigadier. On his return to Santiago he was appointed military commander of the city, but when José M. Carrera returned to power he was arrested in his