KINS, PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE McKIM, Charles Pollen, American archi tect: b. Chester County, Pa., 24 Aug. 1847; d. 14 Sept. 1909. He studied at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1866, at the Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1867-70, and shortly afterward entered into partnership with Sanford White and Wil liam R. Meade. This firm achieved some of the finest triumphs of recent American archi tecture. Among notable examples of it,, work are the buildings of Columbia University, and the Public Library of Boston. In 1903 McKim received the royal gold medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in recog nition of his services to architecture. He was the second American to obtain this honor, R. M. Hunt (q.v.) having been the first. On the occasion of the presentation he made an able speech reviewing the progress of his profession in the United States. He was elected president of the American Institute of Architects.
McKIM, James Miller, American aboli tionist: b. near Carlisle, Pa., 14 Nov. 1810; d. Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J., 13 June 1874. He was graduated from Dickinson Col lege (Carlisle, Pa.) in 1828, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and theology at Princeton (1831) and Andover (1832), and in 1835 was ordained a Presbyterian pastor in Womelsdorf, Pa. An original member of the
American Society, he became its lecturing agent in October 1836, and spoke throughout Pennsylvania, often at great per sonal danger. In 1840 he removed to Philadel phia, where he was publishing agent of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and later corresponding secretary until 1862. In Novem ber 1862 he called a public meeting in Phila delphia to provide for 10,000 slaves suddenly liberated by the capture of Port Royal, S. C. As a result, the Philadelphia Port Royal Re lief Committee was formed. This committee was expanded in November 1863 into the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association, of which McKim became the corresponding secre tary. In that capacity he was active in the establishment of negro schools in the South. In 1865-69 he was corresponding secretary of the American Freedman's Commission, which on his motion was disbanded in July 1869. In 1865 he assisted in founding and became a proprietor of the New York .yeekly Nation. During the Civil War he was an advocate of the enlistment of negro troops, and as a mem ber of the Union League of Philadelphia as sisted in the recruiting of 11 colored regiments.