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field, Herkimer Co., where he superintended the prepa- ration of candidates for holy orders. In 1821 he was made D.D. by Columbia College ; removed to Geneva, and served for many years as missionarj' in the village of Waterloo. He became professor in the College of Ge- neva in 1825, and continued so until his death, March 25, 1830. His works are A Sermon in the Churchman^s Magazine, and A Series of A rticles in the Gospel Mes- senger, signed P. See Sprague, ^1 nnals, v, 525.
McDonald, John, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Brooke County, Va., July 25, 1794 ; was educated in Ohio University, Athens, Ohio ; was licensed and or- dained by Athens Presbytery in 1827, and installed pastor of the Church in Burlington, Ohio; subsequently served as missionary in Kentucky; in 1832 labored in Manchester and Huntington churches, Ohio ; and from 1836 in the Pleasant Prairie Church, 111., until his death, Aug. 15, 1866. Mr. McDonald was possessed of rare mental strength and discriminating powers; extensive religious and literary actjuirements; sterling piety, and unassuming humilitv. See Wilson, Presb, Hist. A Ima- nac, 1867, p. 18-1. (.J. L. S.)
McDonogll, John, an American philanthropist, a merchant of New Orleans, was born at Baltimore in 1778, and in 1800 removed to the Southern city, where, after having by hard labor and strict economy amassed an immense fortune, he delighted to serve the cause of humanity. He foimded free schools and asylums for orphans, and also aided greatly the cause of the "Amer- ican Colonization Society."' lie established himself a colony in Africa, and sent thither many of his own ne- groes, after having previoiislv provided them with a thorough education and a trade. He died Oct. 26. 1850. See Drake, Diet. A mer. liiog. s. v.
McDowell, Alexander, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Ireland, and came to this country in 1737; was licensed in 1739; and afterwards itinerated through portions of Maryland and Virginia, until, in 1741, he was ordained as an evangelist to Virginia, and subsequently to itinerate in New Castle Presbyterj' ; in 1743 took charge of White Clay and Elk Kiver church- es ; in 1752 was appointed principal of the Synod's school, which he aftersvards removed to Elktown, Md., and in 1767 to Newark, Del. He continued to labor as a teacher and preacher until his death, Jan. 12, 1782. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1803, p. 48. (J. L. S.)
McDowell, John, D.D., a Presbyterian minister (O.S.), was born in Bcdminster, Somerset County, N. J., Sept. 10, 1780; was educated at Princeton College, where he graduated A.B. in 1801 ; studied theology with Dr. Woodhull, of Freehold ; and was licensed by the Pres- bytery of New Brunswick in 1804. In December of that year he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown, where lie remained until 1833. Dur- ing his ministry there 1144 persons were added to the Church. In May, 1833, he became pastor of the Cen- tral Church, Philadelphia, which, from small beginnings, grew to be a strong Church under his ministr}'. In 1846 he accepted a call to the new Spring-garden Street Church, where again his talent for organizing and es- tablishing a society was very successfully employed. He remained in this parish till his death, February, 1863. He published a System of Theology (2 vols.) : — Bi- ble Class Manual (2 vols.) : — Bible Questions ; etc. For nearly fifty years he was a trustee of Princeton College, and was a director of the theological seminary from its foundation. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Im. 1864, p. 186.
McDowell, William Anderson, D.D., a Pres- byterian minister, was born at Lamington, Somerset Co., N. J.; in 1809 graduated at Princeton, where he acted as tutor for several months; comjilcted his theological studies in 1813; was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and ordained and installed pastor at Bound Brook. In 1814 he became pastor of the Church of INIorristown, N. J. ; but after a residence of nine years his health obliged him to resign ; in 1823 he was installed
liy the Charleston Union Presbytery, ser\'ed for several years, and in 1832 became moderator of the General As- sembly, and secretary of the " Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church" (Phila.). He subsequently visited the South ; and preached occasionally in New Jersey, where he died, Sept. 17, 1851. See Sprague, A n- nals, iv, 495 ; Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1804.
McElhany, William G., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Huntington, Pa. ; graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1847 ; studied theology in the Associate Reformed Seminary at Canonsburg, Pa. ; and in 1850 was licensed by Chartier Presbytery; in 1855 was or- dained and installed pastor of the Church in Hoboken, N. J., which relation existed until his death, ]\Iay 28, 1860. Blr. McElhany was a sound evangelical preach- er. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Im. 1861, p. 209. (J. L. S.)
McFarland, Asa, D.D., a Congregational minis- ter, was born April 19, 1709, at Worcester, Mass.; grad- uated at Dartmouth College in 1793 ; was ordained pas- tor in Concord, N. II., March 7, 1798, and died there Feb. 18, 1827. He was made trustee of Dartmouth College in 1809, and president of the New Hampshire Mission- ary Society in 1811. His publications were. Oration be- fore the Phi Beta. Kappa Society in Dartmouth College (1802) : — .4?? Historical View of Heresies and Vindica- tion of the Primitire Faith (1808) ; and several occa- sional Sermons. See Sprague, Annals, ii,412.