RANDOLPH HARRISON McKIM
McKIM, RANDOLPH HARRISON, D.D., LL.D., clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, author, soldier, chaplain in the Confederate army, and founder of the Church Temperance Society, New York, was born April 15, 1842, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, John S. McKim, was in commercial I life, and the son speaks of his father's "frankness, decision, courage, sympathy and warmth of affection." His mother's influence was paramount over her son morally and spiritually. His ancestry is distinguished, including Benjamin Harrison of James River, Virginia, 1635, progenitor of the two presidents Harrison, William Randolph, the founder of the family of that name, and Robert Carter, known in Virginian annals as "King Carter." His youth was passed chiefly in Baltimore. His early taste was for classical studies. He was drawn to Christian Missionary work wishing to be sent to China. He studied at excellent private schools in Baltimore, and for one year at Loyola college. After two years at the university of Virginia, he took diplomas of graduation in the schools of Latin and Greek in 1860, and in French, Moral Philosophy and Mathematics in 1861, taking also a partial post-graduate course in Greek the same year. In July, 1861, he became a private in the 1st Maryland regiment in the Confederate army of Northern Virginia and served under Stonewall Jackson. Promoted in 1862 to be first lieutenant, he served as aide-de-camp to General G. H. Stuart in the autumn of 1863. After a winter of theological study, he returned to active service as chaplain of the 2d Virginia cavalry until Lee's surrender.
After the war he was appointed assistant minister of Emmanuel church, Baltimore; then 1866-67 he was rector of St. John's church, Portsmouth, Virginia; of Christ's church, Alexandria, Virginia, 1867-75; of Holy Trinity church (Harlem), New York, 1875-86; of Trinity church, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1886-88; and of Epiphany church, Washington, District of Columbia, since 1889. He was deputy to the general convention of the Episcopal church, from Maryland, in 1892 and in 1895, and from Washington in 1898, 1901 and 1904. He was chosen president of the house of deputies of
