McPheeters, William, D.D., a Presbyterian min- ister, was born in Augusta County, Va. ; was educated at Liberty Hall, Lexington, and licensed in 1802. Soon after he preached in various parts of Kentucky, ex- tended his labors to Ohio, and took charge of the Church at Danville, Ky., and of a male school. In 1804 he vis- ited the counties of Greenbriar and ^lonroe. Subse- quently served at New Lebanon and A\'indy Cove, and acted as a stated supply in 1805 at Bethel Church. He was ordained in 1806, and took charge of the academy and congregation in Kaleigli, N. C where he remained several years. In 1836 he was principal of a school in Fayetteville, and was afterwards agent of the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly. He died Nov. 7, 1842. — Sprague, Annuls, iv, 304.
McPherson, John Erskine, a Presbyterian min- ister, was born in Iredell County. N. C, Aug. 17, 180G; was educated at the academy at Beatlie's Ford, N. C. ; spent one year in the Union Theological Seminary, Vir- ginia, and finished his studies privately under the Rev. K. 1 1. Morrison, of Davidson College, N. C. ; was licensed in 1838, and for several months labored as a missionary in North Carolina. In 1842 he was ordained, but for teii years more continued to labor in the mission work; in 1852 he was called to Prospect Cliurch, in Powan Coun- ty, N. C. ; in 1855 removed to Cliemkee ('ounty. and labored in that missionary region until 1859. He died April 9, 1860. Mr. IMcPherson was characterized by a patient perseverance and devotion to duty, indicative of the highest grade of spiritual life. Sec Wilson. P/vii. Hist. Almanac, irn;\, -p. nyl. (J.L.S.)
McPherson, Joseph A., a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Churcli Soutli. was born in West Ivli- ciaua Parish, La.. Dec. 19. 1835; was educated at the Centenary College, Jackson, La. (class of 1853)'; spent several years in teaching; entered the Mississippi Con- ference in 1859, and was appointed to Bolivar Circuit ; in 1860 he was traiusfcrred to Fort Adams Circuit, and
died June 18, 1861. He was a faithful and able minis- ter of the Gospel, and the Church greatly lamented his early loss. — Conference Minutes of the M. E. Ch. South, ii, 317.
McQueen, GiiORCiK, Jr., a Presbj-terian missionary, was born in Schenectady^ N. Y., in 1826 ; graduated at Union College, N. Y., in 1849 ; studied divinity in the seminary at Princeton, N.J. ; was licensed and ordained by the presbytery of Albany in 1852, and soon after sailed for Africa, as a member of the Corisco Mission, where he labored until he died, Slarch 25, 1859. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 76.
McReynolds, Robert Young, a minister of the Metllodi^t Episcopal Church South, was born in Allen County, Kentucky, in 1818; was converted in his six- teenth year; was licensed to preach in his nineteenth year, and joined the Kentucky Conference in 1829. In 1840 he was transferred to the Rock River Conference, and was stationed at Galena; in 1841 was transferred back to the Kentuckj' Conference, and continued in the regular Avork until 1845, when he located until 1867. He was next readmitted to the Louisville Conference, and appointed to Portland; in 1868 to Shepherdsville Circuit, and in 1869 to Litchfield Circuit, He died Au- gust 23, 1870, Mr. IMcReynolds was " a benevolent man, a cheerful, happy Christian, vciy zealous and useful in the ministry." — Conference Minutes of the M^E. Church South, 1870", s. V.
McS"waiii, WiLLiAJi Adxey, a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Mont- gomery (now Stanlej') County, N. C, Nov. 5, 1814; was converted and joined the Church in 1831; was licensed to preach in 1836, and entered the South Carolina Con- ference in 1838. He served on the following circuits : Pleasant Grove in 1843 ; Rutherford in 1844-45 ; Union in 1846-47, and again in 1854; Neuberry in 1848, and again in 1855-56 ; Black Swamp in 1849-50. In 1851- 52 he was pastor of Trinity Church, Charleston ; in 1853 of Spartansburg station ; in 1857 tract agent of his Con- ference ; from 1859-62 presiding elder on the Cokesbury District ; in 1863-G4 pastor of Ninety-six, and in 1865 of Laurens Circiut. He died Jan. 7, 1866. Besides the trustworthiness indicated in his appointments, he served as a delegate to the last two sessions of the Southern General Conference, and was elected to that which was to meet in 1862, and was at the time of his death presi- dent of the Sunday-school Society of the South Carolina Conference. " Few men, with similar disadvantages, ever attained that measure of ability, degree of emi- nence, and width of popularity which constituted that honor which was so cheerfulh' and universally awarded by the Church and world to this self-made man. Pos- sessed of great versatility of genius, gifted with rare so- cial qualities and conversational powers, and blessed with a singular descriptive faculty, he was well qualified, from his vast fund of general information, to give life, interest, and information to the fireside or social circle. His ap- pearance in the pulpit, his engaging address, flow of language, and tone of voice, and ease and natin-alness of manner, his own interest in the subject, with the general persuasiveness of his style, gave to his sermons, which evinced much thought and research, an effective- ness which was only equalled by the great popularity of the preacher himself. He -was a favorite divine with all sects of Christians and all classes of people." See Con- ference Minutes of the M. E. Church South, iii, 17.