Mazzola (or Mazzuola), Girolamo Frances- co Maria, an eminent Italian painter, surnamed II Par- migiano, the Parmesan, was born at Parma in 1503. lie visited Rome in 1523, and was employed by Clement VII to execute a number of works in that city. His stjde, formed on that of Correggio and Raphael, is char- acterized by exceeding grace and delicacy of form and softness of coloring. It was saiil by JMazzola's admirers that " the spirit of Eaphael had passed into him." Maz- zola was the tirst Italian artist who engraved with aqua fortis. He died in 1540. Among his masterpieces are the Madonna della Rosa, in the gallery of Dresden ; an A nnunciation, in the principal church of Viadana ; the Madonna with St. Margaret, St, Jerome, etc., in the Museum at Bologna ; the Madotma dello Lungo Collo, at Florence ; and the Vision of St. Jerome, in the Na- tional Gallery, London. See Vasari, Lives of the Paint- ers ; Affo, Vita di F. Mazzola (1784) ; Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs of Early Italian Painters ; Bellini, Cenni in- tonio alia Vita ed alle Opere di F. Mazzola (1844) ; Mortara, Memoria della Vita di F. Mazzuola (1846). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biorj. Generale, vol. xxxiv, s. v.
McAdam, Thojias, a ruling elder in the Presby- terian Church, was born April 10, 1777, near Ballymena, Ireland. Being an ardent friend of liberty, the op- pressive measures of the British government led him to take an active part in the efforts made to obtain free- dom in Ireland ; in consequence of which he incurred the suspicion of the officers of the laiv, and being m danger of losing his life by a summary trial, in 1797 he left his native land for America. He was subsequently engaged in teaching in Philadelphia; was for a consid- erable time at the head of the mathematical and English school connected with the University of Pennsylvania ; was ordained a ruling elder in 1801, and for many years treasurer of the Board of Missions of the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. He died Nov. 16, 1844. Mr. INIcAdam was a man of noble and generous impulses, dignified in manners, intelligent, and truthful. See Wilson, Presb, Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 176. (J. L. S.)
McArthur, James P., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Jackson, N. Y., October 22, 1827 ; gradu- ated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. ; studied the- ology, first in the Associate Seminar}', Canonsburg, Pa., and afterwards in the seminary at Xenia, Ohio ; was licensed by the Presbytery of jMiami, and connected with the Presbytery of Cambridge when he died, April 15, 1859. See Wilson, Presh. Jtist. Almanac, 1860, p. 159.
McAuley, William, an Associate Reformed Pres- byterian minister, was born in the north of Ireland about 1765. His early education was thorough, as he was in- tended for some literary profession, and when about fif- teen years old he was entered as student at the Uni- versity of Glasgow, where he gained high distinctions. Both students and professors regarded him as a youth of singular promise. Upon graduation he at once en- tered upon the study of theology, under the weU-knowii
and venerable John Brown of Haddington, the professor of theology to the Associate Burgher Synod of Scotland, and was one of the last class of students taught by that great and good man. AVilliam McAuley was licensed to preach in 1789 by the Associate Presbytery of Armagh, and was ordained bj' that body in 1790, as minister of the Associate congregation of TuUiaUan, and there he labored acceptably until 1794, when he emigrated to the United States. Here he was received by the Presby- tery of Washington (Synod of New Y'ork), and was in- stalled in charge of the united congregations of Kort- right, Harpersfield, and Stamford, Delaware County, N. Y. As the country developed, his churches grew in power, and divisions becoming necessary, he Avas finally confined in his labors to Kortright alone. He held his post for over half a centur}', and died in the harness March 24, 1851. Mr. McAuley deserves to be remem- bered as one of the pioneers of American Protestantism. His task was one requiring energy and perseverance, and both these qualities he possessed in an eminent de- gree. Though frequently left to struggle against pov- erty and sickness in the care of a large family, he never faltered, and unhesitatingly pressed forward to advance the interests of his Master's cause. Says Dr. John For- syth (in Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, ik, 78) : "That he was not an ordinary man, all, I think, will admit, who consider the single fact that his ' natural force' as a preacher was considered as ' unabated' by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who seventy years ago or more settled in a wilderness, which, through their instrumentalitj^, has been made to blos- som as the rose./. . . In the central portions of Dela- ware County there are thousands who, though they never saw him, yet, from what their fathers have tokl them, will cherish with affectionate veneration the name of William McAuley."
McBride, Matthew, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Philadelphia April 27, 1830; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1851, and studied in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church ; was licensed in 1855 by the Philadelphia Pres- bytery, and became a pastor in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he remained until 1861, when, compelled by im- paired health to resign, he returned to Philadelphia. He next became editor and proprietor of The Banner of the Covenant, which he conducted with great accept- ance to the Church until his death. May 13, 1863. See Wilson, I'resh. Hist. A Imanac, 1864.