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[J. Kennaday, in Ch. Ad., 1851, and Stiles, in the Hist. B'klyn, vol. iii, pp. 860, 888, 927.] -* Sarah (Campbell), his w., was a relative of Peter Cooper's. She was a paralytic for some time, and her speech was affected. She d. Dec. 28, 1855. Granite stones in Mr. Cooper's beautiful and spacious round plot, at the junction of Central and Grove aves., in "Green- wood," commemorate the virtues of Mr. K. and his worthy Xn. wife. On the one is inscribed : "The sweet remem- brance of the just shall flourish when he sleeps in death ; " on the other : "Blessed are the dead," etc. Children : Amelia, mar. Capt. (afterward Com.) Newton-she d. some time since ; James, d. at sea about 1820; John, a captain in the navy-yard ; Asbury ; Julia Salena, w. of Augustus T. Post, d. in New Haven, Conn., June 16, 1868-her grave is beside those of her parents; Thomas, the youngest, d. Mrs. Wm. Rushmore, who furnished the author with the above list, stated that Julia was an Episco- palian, and that none of the children became Methodists .- ** Kissam, Jemima, member in 1798 .- Kissam, Mrs. Mary J., withdrew .- Kittle, Sam'l P., cl. Idr. and S.S.t .; b. in Groveland, Livingston Co., N. Y., where he was conv. at 17, and j. the M. E. ch. Removing to Buffalo, he j. the Niagara-st. ch., (only M. E. ch. in the city ; ) became one of the founders of the Swan-st. (now Grace) ch .; rem. by c. to Sands-st. ch., B'klyn, about 1861; thence, 1869, to St. Paul's, Newark, N. J .; ass't supt. of S. S. there, and pres't Y. M. C. A. Rem. thence to Beekman Hill ch., N. York ; S. S. supt. there 4 yrs. ; now of W. Harlem ch. His w., Catharine E., rem. by c .- Knighton, P. H. and Cornelia, rem. 1847 .- KNOWLES, WM. A., S.S.t. -- Knowlton, Calvin, S.S.t. manv yrs. ago; rem .- KNOWL- TON, PERRIN .-** Kollinger, Margaret, d. 1867 .- Kol- linger, Charlotte, mar. ; see Scudder.
Laine, Thos. N., loc. pr .; a native of the island of Guern- sey ; called to preach before his conversion; ist a member of the French Wesleyan ch., afterward of the English ; a loc. pr. in his native home ; came to B'klyn, and j. Sands-st. ch. in 1860; cordially. received and helped. Pastoral Record : 1861, supply, Union Pl. Mission, (Cypress Hills,) L. I .; 1862-64, supply, South- ampton; 1865, ord. deacon; 1865-66, Riverhead; 1867, ord.elder ; 1867-68, Trumbull and Nichol's Farms, Conn. ; 1869, Stepney ; 1870-71, Bethel; 1872-74, Watertown and N. Wat'n ; 1875-76, Milford ; 1877, Georgetown; 1878-80, City Island, N. Y .; 1881-83, North N. York; 1883, removed to fill a vacancy in Stamford, Conn .; 1884, Essex. He was mar. in 1864; has 2 daughters .- Lam- bard, Mrs. Frances, rem. by c., 1873 .- Lambard, Jessie, mar. ; see Longacre .- LAMPE, MARY A .- Lamson, Lewis, rem. by c., 1882 .- LANDLER, JULIA, w.of Wm .-** Landon, Dr. Dillon Stevens, son of the Rev. S. Landon, was b. near 1 .. Champlain ; named for one of the N. York Conf. preachers,
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a friend of his father's ; was graduated at the N. York Univ., and then studied medicine there; cl. Idr. in York-st. ch., 1842 ; later a S.S.t. and cl. Idr. in Sands-st. He was trus. of the Polytechnic School, and physician of the B'klyn City Hospital. Prominent, respected, beloved. He d. in 1874, age 52; bur. in J. Wesley Harper's plot in " Greenwood."-LANDON, ELIZ- ABETH H., wid. of the above, dau. of J. Wesley Harper .-- LANE, EBER and SUSAN J .-** Lane, Wm., a shoe-dealer; d. 1850, at an advanced age .- LARKIN, MRS. MARGARET. -La Roza, Mrs. Abagail, rem. by c., 1879 .- La Roza, Mrs. Alma, rem. by c .- La Roza, Eliza, rem .-** La Roza, John, d. 1874 .- La Roza, John L., rem. by c., 1872 .-** La Roza, Zebulon, d .- Latimer, Ebenezer, cl. Idr., 1831 .- Lawrence, Amanda, rem. by c .- Lawrence, Bennella, rem .- Lawrence, Mary, rem. by c., 1840 .--** Lawrence, Rich'd, app'ted cl. Idr. about 1846 ; b., of Quaker parents, in Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., in 1805 ; coming to B'klyn, he was apprenticed to Gamaliel King, and became a builder. One Sabbath Mrs. King invited the Quaker lad to the Sands-st. S. S., where he heard announced a camp-meeting prayer- meeting, which his curiosity led him to attend. At that meet- ing he gave his heart to God. He was then 16 yrs. of age. He soon j. this ch. ; rem. by c., 1839, to assist in founding Johnson-st. ch. ; returned about 1847 ; rem. by c. to Harlem, 1850; returned again in 1855. The last 16 yrs. he was practically identified with the Nostrand ave. ch., but until his death his name was found on the Sands-st. record. His last words were, "Blessed Jesus!" " Destitute of early advantages of education, God made him great-great in his love, his zeal, and the heroism and power of his faith." [ Rev. G. E. Reed, in Ch. Ad. ] He d. Mar. 9, 1882, age 76. It is said that his funeral was attended by 1,000 persons, including the Society of Old Brooklynites, to which he belonged. Bur. in Cypress Hills cem .- MARY (DRAKE), his w., is a native of N. J. Though she is probably recognized as a member of the Nostrand ave. ch., her name remains on the Sands-st. ch. record. The children are 6 in number: Benj., Mrs. Stone, and 4 other daughters .-* Lawrence, Wm., nephew of Rich'd; rem. by c., and d. a member of Hanson Pl. ch .- Lay, Lucy Ann, rem. by c., 1869 .-** Lay, Sylvia M., d. - LAYTON, ELSIE .- LAYTON, MRS. MEREENA. -Leach, Adam, rem. by c .- Leach, B. F. B., loc. pr., 1864; rem. by c., 1865 .- Leach, Eliza, rem. by c .- "Leaneigh, John, member in 1798 .-** Leary, Mrs. Sarah E., d 1867, age 25 .-* Leavens, Geo., cl. Idr., 1866; exh., 1867; rem .; became deranged and d .--- LEIGH, CHAS. C., S.S.t., S. S. supt., exh., cl. Idr., and loc. pr. ; b. Dec. 25, 1812, in the city of Phila. ; parents moved to Po'keepsie, N. Y .; both d. before he was 12 yrs. of age. At 16 he j. the M. E. ch. in Albany ; rem. by c. to
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'Sands-st., B'klyn, in 1833; was ordained a loc. deacon in 1835; aided in forming the Loc. Prs'. Assoc'n in B'klyn ; subsequently became one of the founders of the National Loc. Prs'. Assoc'n ; supplied, as pastor, Astoria (part of Newtown cir.) in 1844. He resided in N. York for some yrs. after 1846, and held his mem- bership in Bedford-st. and in 7th ave. ; was pres't of the N. York City Temp. Alliance; a member of the N. Y. Legislature 2 terms ; renominated and elected by the temperance party, and was chairman of the Com. on Temperance. That com. reported favorably on the Maine Law, which was adopted by the Legis- lature. He was nominated by the same party for governor, and afterward for sec. of state. He has delivered without fee or re- ward hundreds of temperance addresses in various parts of the U. S. All his preaching, likewise, has been without pay. Mr. 1. was one of the prime movers in the formation of the Nat'l Freedmen's Assoc'n, of which the Rev. Dr. Tyng was the Ist pres't. He was chairman of the executive com., and devoted all his time to the asso'n until after the close of the war. Col- lections were taken in all parts of the North, and in Europe also. Many thousands of pkgs of goods were sent from Eng. and Holland, all directed to him, and the U. S. gov't gave in- structions to the Collector of the Port of New York to deliver all pkgs directed to Mr. Leigh without opening them-an expres- sion of confidence perhaps never made to any other citizen. Ile visited several European countries in the interest of this cause. made addresses and formed assoc'ns. The speech he made in the Meth. Centennial Hall, in London, was printed in all the European and some Asiatic languages, and not a little aid was received from the heathen of the Old World. Observ- ing that, in case of war with Gt. Britain, telegraphic communi- cation between the U. S. and Europe would be cut off, Mr. 1. interested himself in the formation of a cable line between our country and France, conducted the necessary negotiations, and witnessed the success of the scheme. Mr. L. was in early life, and is now, a dealer in crockery in B'klyn .- LEONARD, BENJ .- Lessner, Priscilla, rem. by c., 1868 .-- LESTER, CATHARINE .- Lewis, Epenetus, rem. by c., 1839 ; became an off. in York-st., Johnson-st., and Carlton ave. chs. success- ively. His'ist w. was a dau. of Joshua Rogers, of York-st. ch. Rem., more than 30 yrs. ago, to Westbury, L. I., where he has been cl. Idr., trus., and S. S. supt .- LEWIS, MRS. FREE- LOVE W .- LEWIS, HANNAH .- Lewis, Jane Ann, rem. to N. J .- LEWIS, MRS. JULIA A. Lilly, Arthur, rem. by « .. 1868; a member i yr .- Linden. -, loc. pr., 1809 .- Lindsay, Alfred and Emma D., from Simpson ch., rem. by c. 1879 .- LINESBURG, C .- LINESBURG, CAROLINE 1. -Litchult, Mrs. Ann M., rem .- Lock, Walter, cl. Idr .; rem. by c., 1869; member 2 yrs .- LOCKE, ELIZABETH .-
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Lockwood, Robert M., S.S.t., off. S. S. miss'y soc., cl. Idr., and S. S. supt. ; rem. by c., 1866. He was b. in Alexandria, Va., Apr. 14, 1818, the 2d of a family of 7 children. His parents, Aquila and Cassandra M. (Dallam) Lockwood, were Methodists from Harford Co., Md. Mrs. Cassandra Lockwood's early home, " The Cranberry," was one of the visiting places of Bp. Asbury on his horseback journeys from Balt. to Phila. It is related of the bishop that having arrived very weary at " The Cranberry," one Saturday night, and having requested the fam- ily not to call him in the morning, he staid in his room that he might not be seen by a circuit-rider, who had an appoint- ment at that house on Sunday morning. Just as the sermon commenced the old bishop came quietly down stairs, and seated himself behind the door opening into the hall. He made 32 scratches on the door with his penknife, and when Cassandra's mother asked him what they meant, he replied, with a quizzical smile: "They are the mistakes the young brother made in preaching." Mr. Lockwood's uncle succeeded to the possesion of the old mansion, and would never, in all the repairs that were made in the score of yrs. succeeding, allow the back of the door to be painted; and Mr. L. states that he has often seen the marks when visiting the old homestead. When the father of R. M. Lockwood visited B'klyn, being about 80 yrs. of age, the Sands-st. S. S. visited him in a body, to express their respect for him, and as an evidence of affection for his son ; the mother lived to see her 2 older children conv., and went home to her Saviour in 1833. Robert was conv. under the ministry of the Rev. Nor- val Wilson, father of one of the bishops of the M. E. ch., South, July 31, 1832, age 14; rem. to Bal., 1835 ; el. Idr. in Bah. city station, 18 po to 1850; supt. of Light-st. S. S. (called Asbury S. S., No. 1) from 1830 to 1850. This was the oldest S. S. in the city, and from the date of its organization to 1850, the time when Mr. 1. left it, there had gone forth to preach the gospel 39 of its members. On its honored roll are the names of Bp. Cummins, of the Ref. Epis. Ch .; Dr. Dashiel, our late miss'y sec .; Drs. W. F. Watkins and John D. Easter, of the Prot. Epis. Ch., and many others. Mr. I. was transferred to the Charles-st. ch. in 1850, and was S. S. supt. there till 1856. That yr. he rem. to Sands-st. ch., B'klyn, and served the ch. and S. S. as above. He rem. thence to South Orange, N. J., and j. the Jeffersonville charge, Newark Conf. His Ist license as a loc. pr., in 1867, was signed by Jas. Ayars, P. E. He had pastoral charge in Jeffersonville for more than a yr. ; then went south and united with the Savannah Wesley Monumental ch. of the M. E. Ch., South, where he was std. and S. S. supt. Pastoral Record : 1868-69, Jeffersonville, N. J., a supply ; 1872, ord. deacon by Bp. Wightman, (South Ga. Conf.)-Hawkinsville, Ga .; 1873, ord. elder by Bp. Keener,-E. Macon; 1874-75,
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Darien; 1876-77, Bainbridge; 1878, Sandersville ; 1879-82, Conf. S. S. sec. ; 1880, Eastman ; 1883, Hamilton; 1884, Co- lumbus. His w. was the dau. of Francis J. Dallam, Esq., of Balt. They were mar. in 1849. She d. in 1865, soon after the death of a son and a dau. in B'klyn. Another dau. d. in 1867. A dau., the only surviving child, resides in Savannah, Ga. Bro. L. writes : " The darkest hour of my home-life was when sickness and death made their inroads into my happy family in B'klyn. The prayers and sympathies of the Sands-st. ch, and S. S. were a sweet solace to me, and have left a precious mem- ory." After the death of his 3d child he determined, as soon as he could settle up his business, to leave the scene of so much sorrow ; and, in a new and unknown country, to devote the re- mainder of his life to the work of the ministry. Mr. L. is one of the best-remembered men of the old Sands-st. ch. and S. S. The result of his useful labors will endure forever .- Long, Anna, mar. a Mr. Hart .- Longacre, Mrs. Jessie, rem. by c., 1873 .- Longstreet, Maria, mar. T. Wales .- LONG- WORTH, CATHARINE .-** Loper, Isaac, d. Mar., 1872; remembered as a man of strange peculiarities and petty prej- udices. See Beecher's allusion to him, p. 36 of this work .- LOPER, MRS. MARIAN .- LORCKE, HERMAN .- LORD, GEO. H .- LORD, MARY A .- LOSANO, FRANK W .- LOSEE, FRANK .- Lott, Mrs. Maria, rem. by c., 1868 .-- Lounsbury, Phineas C., rem. by c., 1864 and 1869 .- Love- joy, James, S.S.t. ; rem. - LOWE, WAL. E .- LOWE, MRS. ABBIE E. - Luckey, Ann, rem. - LUCKEY, GEO .- LUCKEY, MRS. MARY .- LUNT, THADEUS .- Lush, Geo. W., rem .-* Lynch, Rebecca, member1, 798 .- Lyon, Jonathan, was a loc. elder in Sands-st. ch. in 1823. He was a son of l'eter and Jerusha Lyon, of North Castle, N. Y. His father, Peter Lyon, Esq., was an off. in the Revolution. Jonathan was conv. at 12, and j. the M. E. ch. He was mar .. Dec. 5, 1794, to Freelove Forman, of Bedford, N. Y., and i children were born to them, of whom 2 are living, ( 1884 :) namely, the wid. of Fletcher Harper, (youngest of the original Harper Brothers, ) and the wid. of Dr. Thos. Henry. Minis- terial Record : 1807, (N. York Conf.,) Litchfield cir., Conn .. with A. Hunt ; 1868, Redding cir., with N. W. Thomas; ISco. ord. deacon,-Croton cir., N. Y., with E. Canfield ; 1810, Middle- town cir., Conn,, with O. Sykes; 18H, ord. elder,-Croton cir., N. Y., with P. Cook ; 1812, New Rochelle cir., with Eben Smith : 1813, Jamaica cir., I. I., with S. Bushnell and W. Blagborne ; 1814, New Rochelle cir., with W. Thacher; 1815, Middletown cir., Conn., with Wm. Jewett; 1816-49, located. This record shows that he served a second time on 3 different circuits. He located on account of physical infirmity, but preached con- siderably until old age prevented. Moses Rogers, of Northport,
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L. I., remembers that when Lyon came to the Jamaica cir., in 1813, a stranger, he saw a board nailed to a tree, where a lane leading from a farm-house intersected the highway, and on it was printed, in rude letters. " Bro. Lyon, turn down here." He followed the direction, and found a welcome in a good Method- ist home. Judge Dikeman relates that immediately after a sermon in the " old white church," which he had delivered in his usual stormy and vociferous manner, the sexton, with a notice in his hand, went up to the high octagon inclosed pul- pit, in which the preacher stood. A little child watched the movement, and whispered to his mother : " Now, mamma, he is going to be good, and the man will let him out!" From the Rev. Henry Hatfield and Dr. Griswold we learn that Mr. L. engaged in business-wharf-building and other public works- and was not altogether successful. In his last brief, painful sickness he was not able to converse much, but was sustained by faith ; d. in peace, in the neighborhood of Middle Village, 1. 1., Aug. 21, 1849, in the 76th yr. of his age. Plain marble slabs, close beside the head-stones of Joseph and Elizabeth Harper, in the Meth. ch .- yard in Middle Village, designate the graves of J. L. and Freelove, his wife. She d. Feb. 12, 1850, age So yrs., one of the excellent of the earth. [B., in Ch. Ad. ] On his tombstone is inscribed : "A devoted Christian, an af- fectionate husband, and kind father ; " on hers: " A devoted w. and mother, whose life was a practical illustration of piety and virtue." -** Lyon, Lorenzo G., went to the war, and d.
*Macfarlan, Frederick D., loc. pr., 1830. His father, a graduate of the College of Edinburgh, gave him classical in- struction. About 1825, in B'klyn, he was brought to Christ by "a pious w. and mother ; " rem. to N. York ; from thence entered the itinerancy Pastoral Record : 1832, (N. York Conf .. ) Sullivan cir., N. Y., with N. Rice; 1833, Ellenville ; 1834, ord. deacon,-New Platz cir., with E. Washburn and D. Webster ; 1835-36, Rossville ; 1836, ord. elder. He visited his parents in N. York, in Oct., 1836, and was taken sick after preaching in the Greene-st. ch. ; partially recovered ; overworked in a 4 days meeting in Nov. ; dropsy ensued, and he d. Jan. 1, 1837, age 40. The attending physician did not inform him of his danger until a few hours before his death. He replied : " You ought to have let me know, but I am not afraid to die." The conf. gave him a good record as a " studious, modest, acceptable, useful minister of the Lord Jesus Christ." [Minutes, 1837, P. 493.] He is bur. in Rossville, N. Y. He left a wid .-* Macreading, Chas. S., (name written " M'Reading" in earlier yrs. ; ) b. in Portsmouth, N. H., Feb. 5, 1811; left motherless when very young ; " thrown out into the wide world," but kindly cared for by Providence ; conv. in Dorchester, Mass, (L. Johnson, pastor,) age about 17 ; licensed to preach in 1830. Weobserve
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REV. WILLIAM M'ALLISTER.
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an unusual number of locations and changes in the following Ministerial Record : 1831, (N. E. Conf.,) Scituate and Marsh- field, Mass., with J. J. Bliss; 1832, Andover and Bradford, with Leroy Sunderland; 1833, ord. deacon,-Randolph and Abington ; 1834, Salem ; 1835, ord. elder,-Dighton and Taun- ton cir., with E. C. Scott ; 1836-37, Newtown; 1838-44, located ; part of 1839, loc. elder in Sands-st., and part of the yr. supply, B'klyn, Wash'gt'n st., in place of B. Griffin, rejected; 1845-46, (N. E. Conf.,) Lynn, South-st. ; 1847-48, Webster, with J. Ireson, sup'y ; 1849, Southbridge; 1850, Fitchburgh; 1851, Mendon ; 1852-53, Boston, Meridian-st. ; 1854, Newtown Upper Falls ; 1855, Cambridge, Howard-st. ; 1856, located ; 1856-57, (Wis. Conf., ) Milwaukee, Spring-st. ; 1858, located, supplied Belvidere, Ill. ; 1359, (Peoria Conf .. ) La Salle, III. ; 1860-66, (N. E. Conf.,) sup'd ; 1860, supplied Channahon, Ill. ; 1861, chap. 39th Ill. infantry ; 1865, supplied, Lisbon, Ill. As chaplain he was in sev- eral battles in the Peninsula, and was loved and honored by his reg't. "He was by nature warm and impulsive, and frank to a fault; " a "sincerely good man," and an " accepted and talented minister." . He "early engaged in the antislavery cause, and rejoiced in its final triumph." In his home-life he was af- fectionate and cheerful. He d. suddenly, but peacefully, in Plainfield, III., Apr. 12, 1866, age 55. His last words for Christ were in a protracted meeting, in which many were converted. [Conf. Min., 1867, p. 61.] He left a wid. and several children. His eldest son, C. S. Macreading, Jr., d. in 1875, a member of Prov. Conf. [Conf. Min., 1876, p. 74.]-M'Adam, Rob't, rem. by c., 1868 and 1871 .-* M'Allister, Wm., S.S.t., 1841; loc. pr., 1843. He was b. in 1820, in the N. of Ireland. Ilis ancestors were Scotch, his father a vestryman of the Ch. of Eng. W'm. attended a parochial school, learned the linen-draper's trade, and when a very young man came to B'klyn, and j. the Sands-st. S. S. ; was conv., and j. this ch. while W. II. Norris was pastor. ' He developed a remarkable talent for business, which promised large wealth ; but he heard and obeyed a call to abandon secular schemes, and engage in the ministry of the word. AAppointments : 1845, (N. York Conf.,) New Britain and Berlin, Conn., with S. W. Law-Berlin his special charge ; 1846-47, Farmington ; 1847, ord. deacon ; 1848-49, Cornwall cir., with Isaac Sanford ; 1849, ord. elder; 1850-51, New Mil- ford ; 1852-53, Southport; 1854-55, N. York, 9th-st. ; 1856- 57, N. York, Willett-st. ; 1858-59, Meriden, Conn. ; 1860-61, N. York, 37th-st. ; 1862-63, N. York, Willett-st. ; 1864-66, B'klyn, Johnson-st. ; 1867-69, N. York, 37th-st .; 1870-73, N. York, Allen-st. ; 1873-75, N. York, ed st .; 1876-78, Bir- mingham, Conn. ; 1879, N. York, 76th-st., (Cornell Memorial.) When he went to his first charge some were very anxious to know where he was graduated. He told them, " Sands-st. M. E.
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ch., class-room No. 3-Jacob Brown, pres't." [Rev. T. W. Chadwick. letter to the author. | He was mar., in 1846, to Miss Esther Hollis, sister of the Rev. George Hollis, a lady "eminently fitted to share his trials and make his victory sure."
Their silver wedding, in 1871, was attended by many friends, among whom was the Rev. H. F. Pease, who married them. Mr. M. visited Europe, and his lecture on " Glimpses of Great Britain " was heard and enjoyed by many. He was a member of Gen. Conf. in 1872, and was chairman of the Com. on Sunday- schools and Tracts. He was for some yrs. a member of the general miss'y board. During his last yrs. he was greatly inter- ested in the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification. His last sermon to his people, on the Sabbath before his death, was concerning " The Pentecost." On Monday he was attacked with inflammation of the bowels, and from the first was assured that he must die; but he was ready ; his work had been fully and faithfully done. During his sickness, in his delirium, he was talking about the young people who had requested prayers on the previous Sabbath ev'g. " There they are," said he, "a great company of them, right by the pool. They will take an- other plunge." " On the next Saturday ev'g, in the same hour in which Bp. Gilbert Haven took his flight homeward, Bro. M'Allister was called to his reward. Two worthy and blood- washed souls from the walls of Zion side by side went through the gates of the city into the excellent glory. What a pleasant surprise it was for these brothers to meet on their journey homeward. Perhaps the Bishop said, ' Well, Bro. M., I appointed you, at the last session of your conf., pastor of Cornell Memorial. What are you doing here?' The Irishman would be sure to answer, 'Yes, and it was a good appointment; but the Bishop of our souls has given me a better.' " [ Dr. Fowler, in Ch. Ad.] this funeral was held in the ch. in which he was appointed to minister. A large concourse of sorrowing people thronged the ch., and many ministers appeared as chief mourners. Nr. M. is remembered as a "first-class pastor," "a strong, forcible preacher,". "a good debater," and a most active friend of his unfortunate and poorly-paid brethren. Providence is said to have favored him, so that he was always above financial want, and left his family in possession of means for a comfortable sup- port. His wid. resides in N. York. Of their 2 sons, the elder, the Rev. Wm. H. M'Allister, formerly of the N. York East Conf., is now pastor of the Bethany Indep't Meth. ch., Balt., Md., and the younger was a student in N. York when his father d. The dau. is the w. of Dr. Taneyhill, of Balt. All are members of the household of faith .- M'ARDELL, J. W .- M'ALPERIE, SIMON .- M'ALPERIE, TEMPERANCE .- M'Alpine, Jo- sephine, mar. ; see Van Dyke .- M'Chesney, Catharine H., dau. of Rob't ; rem. to a Dutch Ref. ch. ; mar. Edward Burnett.
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-M'Chesney, Geo. W., son of Rob't; b. in B'klyn, 1837; member of infant-class in Sands-st. S. S., under Cartwright; j. the ch. when H. J. Fox was pastor; entered the choir young, and was chorister there 7 yrs. By his suggestion the Ist mu- sical instrument was introduced. Rem. by c., 1865, to Wash'gt'n-st. ch .; thence to Pacific-st .; thence to Embury, and finally to Hanson Pl. Has been very efficient as chorister or precentor in most of the churches to which he has belonged. -- Abbie, his w., rem. by c., 1865 .- M'Chesney, John D., son of Rob't; rem. Deacon in Pres. ch., (Dr. Bartlett's,) Wash'gt'n, D. C., 1883 .-** M'Chesney, Rob't, cl. Idr .; b. in Monmouth Co., N. J., in Sept., 1807 ; conv. and j. Sands-st. ch. in his youth ; faithful worker, always at his post; d. in Dec., 1845, age 38; funeral attended by H. F. Pease, his pastor ; bur. in Wallabout ; rem. to "Cypress Hills," grave marked by head- stone .-** Sarah (Dey), wid. of the above; d. Jan. 28, 1875, age 67. She was b. in N. J .; mar. in 1829; j. Sands-st. in 1833, and was a S.S.t.' Left alone with 4 small children, she spent her life in self-denying labors for her family and her ch. In 1867 her youngest son was killed in the discharge of his duty as a public officer. The shock was too great, and she gradually sunk to the grave. Funeral attended by L. S. Weed and Geo. Taylor. Children of Rob't and Sarah D. M'Chesney : Catharine HI., (Mrs. Burnett ; ) Geo. W .; John D .; Rob't S., who d. Oct. 19, 1867 .- M'CLOUD, MRS. JEAN .- M'Coy, Thos., cl. Idr., 1835. One Thos. M'Coy d. 1850, a member of S. 2d-st. ch .-- M'Coy, Jane, rem. to Johnson-st. ch , 1850 .- M'Cormick, C. F., rem., 1850 .- M'CREADY, MARGARET .- M'CULLY, MARY .- M'Donald, Edgar, of Nassau Bank, B'klyn; son of W'm., (ist ,) S.S.t., lib'n, off. S. S. miss'y soc., and cl. Idr .; b. in B'klyn; conv. and j. Sands-st. ch. under Dr. Miley's ministry; rem. by c. to Sum'I'd ch., 1878 .- Emma, w. of the above, dau. of J. 11. Ackerman ; rem. by c. to SumI'd ch., 1878 .- M'Donald, J. F., rem. by c., 1861 .- M'Donald, Fletcher, youngest son of Wm. (Ist ; ) rem. by c., 1876 .- Mary, his w .; rem. by c., 1876. At are- cent dateboth were members of Wash'gt'nave. Bap. ch .- M'Don- ald, Jennie, (or Virginia,) mar. ; see Moore .- M'Donald, Margaret, mar. ; see Bottome .- M'Donald, Mary, mar. ; see Tate .-- M'DONALD, MRS. MARY .- M'Donald, Rebecca, rem. by c., 1878 .-* M'Donald, Wm., ( ist. ; ) b. in N. York city ; conv. at 18; j. Forsyth-st. ch. In 1832, age 25, came to B'klyn and j. Sands-st. ch., where he became cl. Idr., trus., and S. S. supt. Rem. later to Fleet-st. ch., where he was a std. and a very superior Bible-class teacher. By occupation, a cooper and gauger; elected a member of the city council ; a man of energetic and progressive spirit ; an ardent Meth., but no bigot. He d. in great peace, March 24, 1852, age 45. [.C., in Ch. Ad.] Resolutions of respect and affection were adopted by the
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