McKinney, Calvin, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Wallkill, Orange County, 'n. Y., Jan. 12, 1819. He received a good academic education, afterwards studied theology in the Associate Reformed Seminary at Xewburg, N. Y., and \vas licensed and ordained in J856. He labored successively at Blillport, Blecklen- V.— 0 o o
burg, and West Groton, N. Y. He died June 9, 1864. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. A Imanac, 1866, p. 220. (J. L. S.)
McKinney, David, D.D., a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Mifflin County, Pa., Oct. 23, 1795. He was educated at Jefferson College (class of 1821) ; then studied theology at the school of divinity at Princeton, N. J. ; was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Phil- adelphia in April, 1824, and ordained and installed at Erie, Pa., in May, 1825. In 1835 he removed to the bomids of the Presbytery of Huntingdon, and took charge of the churches at Sinking Creek and Spring; in 1841 he was transferred to HoUidaysburg, in the same presbytery. In 1852, having severed his pastoral rela- tions. Dr. McKinney removed to Philadelphia, and there established the Presbyterian Banner, In 1855 he re- moved the office of publication to Pittsburg, and there submerged in it the interests of the Preslyterian Advo- cate. He sold the paper in 1864, to become librarian and treasurer for the Board of Colportage of the Synods of Pittsburg and Alleghany, and this position he filled until the time of his decease. Dr. McKinney was a pri- vate partner, and at one time in connection with the editorial staff of the Northwestern Presbyterian Ban- ner.
McKinney, Isaac Ne"V7ton, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Erie, Pa., Oct. 20, 1828; gradua- ted at Jefferson College in 1848, and in 1849 engaged in teaching in Alabama; in 1852 he entered the theolog- ical seminary at Princeton, but because of failing health was obliged to relinquish his studies; in 1856 he accepted a license to preach, and in 1857 was ordained and in- stalled pastor of Montour's Church, but soon after ac- cepted an appointment as professor of Latin in his alma mater; in 18G2 he was engaged in editing the Preshytt- 7-ian Banner, and then in originating and conducting the Family Treasure, and died Nov. 20, 18G4. Mr. IMcKin- ney was a scholar, well versed in language — embracing Latin, Greek, French, and German. As a prcciber, he was ardent, direct, and lucid; as a teacher, he Lad rare capaljilities. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1865, p. 103. (J. L. S.)
McKinney, James, a Reformed Presbyterian minister, was bom in Cookstown, Tyrone County, Ire- land, in 1759. After due preparation he entered Glas- gow College, where he distinguished himself by close application to study and a display of unusual talents. His next step was to study medicine, but, called of God to preach the Gospel, he finally entered upon the study of theology, was licensed in due time, and constituted pastor of a congregation at Kirkhills, Antrim County, about 1780. In 1793 he emigrated to this country, and was immediately employed as missionary. Four j-ears later he became the pastor of a Reformed Presbyterian Church at Galway and Duanesburg, N. Y., and there he remained until 1804, when he accepted a call to a Church at Chester County, S. C. He went south in May, but lived only a few months; he died Sept. 10, 1804. Dr. McMasters thus comments upon McKinney (in Sprague, A muds of the A mer. Pulpit, ix, 2) : " Of the character of Mr. McKinney as a preacher, and of the power of his elo- quence, the very large assemblies that everywhere at- tended his ministry, and the uniform testimony of aU weU-informed and serious men, of various denomina- tions, leave no room for doubt. . . . One feature of his ministerial character may perhaps be inferred from the plan of a Vi'ork which he proposed to publish, the intro- ductory portion of which only he lived to complete. The proposal was a discussion of the Rights of God, the Rights of Christ as IMediator, the Eights of the Church, and the Rights of Humanity in general. Taking the part he published as a specimen of the whole, tlie reader will regret the failure of the purpose. The work would have been worthy of the man — not only sound in mat- ter, but deep in thought and impressive in style." An Irish journal, commenting on the character of James McKinney, says of him : '• The character of James Mc-
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Kinncv never was exceeded in the boldness of its out- line and in the distinctness and prominency of its feat- ures. His eloquence was in perfect character. His heart, possessed with the love of the truth as it is in Je- sus, was ever set upon its recommendation and enforce- ment ; and it was when descanting upon the grand Gos- pel theme of a crucified Saviour or asserting the Church's rights, or when, with well-sustained pathos, he mourned tiic wrongs of Zion, that his mind assumed a gigantic attitude, and put forth its wonderful energies. His dic- tion was clear, copious, strong, and full of pertinent and often brilliant figures. He has frequently, in his public discourses, caught a flame from the working of bis judg- ment, imagination, and feelings ; and then his concep- tions, conveyed in simple, energetic language, or in bright imagery, and in bold and apt allusions, produced an astonishing effect. In America, whose republican in- stitutions he had long loved, the land of enterprise and freedom, was the field which just suited the genius of ^NIcKinnej- ; there his powers had full scope for develop- ment and exercise."