McKELWAY, Saint Clair, American jour nalist: b. Columbia, Mo., 15 March 1845; d. 16 July 1915. In 1853 he came East and was educated in New Jersey, studied law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1866, but never practised. In 1868 he became Washing ton correspondent for the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and in 1870 a member of the editorial staff of the latter paper. From 1877 to 1884 he was the editor of the Albany Argus, and in the latter year returned to Brook lyn to become editor-in-chief of the Eagle, which under his editorship maintained a high standard of excellence. He was a regent of the University of the State of New York since 1883, becoming vice-chancellor in 1900 and chancellor in 1913, a member of the his torical societies of Long Island and Suffolk County, was director of the American Social Science Association and has lectured frequently on educational and political subjects.
McKENDREE, ma...ke'n'dri, William, American Methodist bishop: b. King William County, Va., 6 July 1757; d. near,Nashville, Tenn.. 5 March 1835. He served in the Con tinental army during the American Revolution, entered the Methodist ministry in 1787 and be came a presiding elder nine years later. In 1801 he made a missionary tour beyond the Alleghanies and was an important factor in the evangelizing of that region. In 1808 he was elected bishop, being the first American-born person to hold that office in the Methodist Church. McKendree College (q.v.) was named in his honor. Consult 'Life' by Paine (1869).
McKENDREE COLLEGE, in Lebanon, Ill., founded in 1828 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and first called Lebanon Seminary. In 1830 the name was changed, in honor of William McKendree, who gave his estate to the college. In 1839 a new charter was obtained whereby the school was granted university privileges. Abraham Lin coln rendered valuable services in securing the new charter. Students are admitted on cer tificates from approved schools or on exam inations. It has classical, scientific, music, law and graduate departments. The degrees to which the courses lead are A.B. and B.S. In 1918 there were 15 instructors, in students and 10,000 volumes in the library.
McKENNA, ma-ken'a, James Andrew Joseph, Canadian public service commissioner: b. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1 Jan. 1862. He was educated at Saint Dunstan's Col lege, Charlottetown, was connected for a time with the Prince Edward Island Railway and afterward engaged in journalism. In 1886 he entered the Indian Department of the Dominion Civil Service, and for a brief period was pri vate secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald. With T. G. Rothwell he effected a settlement with British Columbia concerning the administration of the railway belt lands in 1897, and in 1899 he was a royal commissioner for the negotia tion of a treaty with the Indians whereby the Peace River and Athabaska Country were sur rendered to the Crown. He likewise secured the surrender by the Indians of the country around Buffalo Lake, Churchill River and Rein deer Lake in 1906. He was chairman of the royal commission which was appointed to ad just the claims of the half-breeds of the North west, and in 1901 was the sole commissioner. Since 1909 he has been inspector of Indian Catholic schools in Manitoba, Keewatin and the Northwest provinces and territories. Author of
McKENNA, Joseph, American jurist: b. Philadelphia, 10 Aug. 1843. In 1855 he went
to California and was graduated from the Benicia Collegiate Institute in 1865, and ad mitted to the bar the same year. He was dis trict attorney of Solano County in 1866-68, and in the sessions of 1875 and 1876 served as a Republican in the lower house of the California legislature. In 1885-93 he was a California rep resentative in the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52d Con gresses, resigning from the House in 1893 to accept the appointment to the office of United States circuit judge in the Ninth Federal ju dicial district. This post he resigned to become Attorney-General in the cabinet of President McKinley in 1897. On 16 Dec. 1897 he was made an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed Justice Field, retired, and on 26 Jan. 1898 took his seat.
McKENNA, Reginald, English statesman: b. London, 6 July 1863. He was educated at King's College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and became a barrister in 1887. He engaged in law practice until his election to Parliament for North Monmouthshire by the Liberal party in 1895. He soon acquired a reputation as one of the hardest workers on the Liberal benches as well as for a sound knowledge of national finance and of parlia mentary procedure. In the cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, formed in 1905, McKenna was appointed Financial Secretary under Chan cellor of the Exchequer Asquith. In 1907 he received cabinet place as president of the Board of Education. He instituted medical inspection of the children in the schools, and reorganized the secondary school system. When the Asquith cabinet was organized in 1908 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, and in 1911 he was transferred to the office of Home Secretary, where the problems incident to the crusades of the militant suffragettes caused him considerable difficulty. The so-called "Cat-and Mouse Act" brought severe criticism from the supporters of the suffrage movement and from the Opposition. He was also prominently con nected with the Welsh Church Bill, the Mental Deficiency Act and the affairs of the Adminis tration of Criminal Justice. Upon the forma tion of the coalition cabinet under Asquith, in May 1915, McKenna became Chancellor of the Exchequer, succeeding Lloyd George, who was appointed to the new post of Minister of Muni tions. McKenna introduced the first heavy war tax measure and elicited high praise upon its brevity and lucidity as well as its careful dis tribution of the burdens of taxation. With the progress of the war, however, McKenna 'was thought to lean too much toward economy and not sufficiently to favor the stringent measures public opinion deemed necessary to bring the war to a speedy and definitely victorious con clusion. When the new coalition cabinet was organized under the premiership of Lloyd George, December 1916, McKenna was suc ceeded by Bonar Law. In the elections of 1918 he lost his re-election from North Monmouth shire, interrupting a continuous Parliamentary career of 23 years.
MacKENTY, John Edmund, American laryngologist: b. Richmond, province of Que bec, Canada, 1869. He was educated at Ottawa and McGill universities, subsequently studying in Europe. He specialized in otology, laryngol ogy and rhinology; became professor of otology at the New York Polyclinic Medical School, and professor of laryngology and rhinology at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and Medical School. He is a contributor to medical journals.