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VIRGIXIA llIOC.RArilV
first appeared in the "Montreal Gazette,"
r.nd was afterwards re])roduced in many
newspapers in England and the United
States. After the war he returned to Charles-
town (now in West Virginia), but the "test
oath" provisions would not admit of his
practicing his profession until 1870, when
he- forined a law partnership with Judge
Thomas B. Green, afterwards president of
the supreme court of appeals of West \"ir-
ginia. In 1884-86 he was a member of the
legislature, and in that body he was the im-
portant factor in defeating the election of a
Standard Oil Company official as a United
States senator, and his speech on that occa-
sion was widely disseminated. On March
5, 1887, he was appointed United States
senator by Governor Wilson. On Decem-
ber 5. 1S89, on the death of Judge Green, of
the supreme court of appeals, he was ap-
pointed to fill the position, to which he was
elected at the end of the term. After leav-
ing the bench he lived a retired life. In
1875 he delivered the ode at the semi-cen-
tennial anniversary of the University of Vir-
tennial anniversary of the University of
Virginia. He published Memoir of John
Yates Beall." "The Wreath of Eglantine,
and Other Poems," "The Maid of Northum-
berland," "Ballads and Madrigals," "Nica-
ragua and the Filibusters." In recognition
of his ample learning, and brilliant qualities
as an orator and writer, the L'niversity of
A'irginia conferred u])iin him the degree of
Doctor of i^aws. He married Evelina
Tucker Brooke, daughter of Henry Laurens
Brooke, and Virginia Tucker, his wife,
daughter of Henry St. George Tucker, judge
of the Virginia supreme court of appeals,
and Evelina Hunter, his wife.
McKim, Randolph Harrison, son of John
S. McKim and Katharine 1 larrison, his wife ;
is descended on the father's side from a
Scotch-Irish family emigrating to America
in the eighteenth century ; and on the
mother's from Benjamin Harrison, of James
river, \'irginia (1635), ancestor of the two
presidents of that name, and from William
Randolph, of Turkey Island. He left the
University in July. 1861, to enlist in Com-
p;;ny H, First Regiment, Maryland Infan-
tr\, Ca]nain William H. Murray, attached
tc Elzey's brigade, under Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. He participated in the first battle
of Manassas, and subsequently in Stone-
wall Jackson's famous valley camiiaign of
1862, in the various engagements from
Harper's Ferry to Cross Keys, at which
battle (having been appointed aide-de-camp
to Brigadier-General George H. Stewart) he
had a horse shot under him. In the cam-
paign of 1863, Lieutenant McKim was .sev-
eral times mentioned for gallantry in offi-
cial despatches, especially for conduct at
Stephenson's Depot in volunteering to serve
a piece of artillery whose cannoneers had all
been killed or wounded, and at Gettysburg
for volunteering to bring a supply of am-
munition, under fire, to the men of the Third
Brigade lying in the Federal breastw(.rks
on Gulp's llill. In this brittle he was touch-
ed four times by the bullets of the enemy,
but escaped serious injury. In the follow-
ing autumn he resigned, with the consent
or his superior officers, in order to fit him-
self for the post of chaplain. Fie spent the
winter in study in Staunton, Virginia, and
v,as ordained in May. 1864. He then served
a.- chaplain in the field until the surrender
o;' .Appomattox, first in Chew's Battalion of
