M coionela of the 164th New York Volunteera durins the Civil War. John waa bom in Wsterford, Ireland, in 1834, waa educated at St. Jobn'e College, Fordhani, and died at Buffalo, New York, in 1863, Irom injuries received in the army; James was bom ia Waterford, 1836, and was Idllea while leading his regiment at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va.
MuKncer (New York. March. 1006J: CalAnlie Ntui Wev
the pope oo the outlook in European politics in a letter
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Thouah p. Meehan.
HcHutflT, James Alphonsus, editor, convert, b.
at Duanesburg. New York, U. S. A., 1 April, 1820; d.
in Brooklyn, New York, 29 December, 1886. Hia
father, a promineot Presbyterian minister, sent his son
to Union College, but he left before graduating and became a private
tutor. It was the
era of Tractari-
anism and Brook
Farm, and Mc-
Moster became a
Catholic in 1845.
Believing he had
priesthood , he was accepted as a nov- ice in the Rcdemp- torist Congrega-
hia superiors to Belgium. Here he ouickly found that uie life of a reli- able for him, and returning to the United States he adopted t he profes- sion of journal iam. iured him an opening in and his contributions "Tlie New York Freeman'a Jour-
Hisvi
his oioral power — it will add to it"; but after the
events of 1870, in season and out there waa no stronger
or more valiant champion of the rights of the Holy See.
In behalf of Catholic education he was eaually stren-
uous and uncompromising, and w^ged a long warfare
against the attendanoe oiF Catho&c children at the
public schools.
With the advent of modern newspaper methods and the decline of the old-fashioned "personal journalism", a new generation with new ideals tired of HcHast^r's hterary violence, and his once wide-spread prestige and influence waned. The whims and idiosyncrasies o( the old man, who grew more and more diffi- cult to manage aa the end of his curious and stormy career drew to a cloee, still crsjnped and hampered the paper, and when he died it had little inSuence and scant circulation. Of his three children one daughter became a Carmelite and another a Siater of the Holy Child.
Fretnan-i Journal (New York), fila: CaUudu: Ntv» (Ntw York, April 11. 1008); CaUiolic Home Almanac (New York. !88S); BRoWKsoK,MHWJ.ti/e (Detroit. 1896); Id.. LaUtr Lift (Detroit. 1900); Cve. Am. Bios., n. v.
Thomas F. Ueehan.
HcMdl, Neil. See St. Georob's, Diocese of.
MacNeveii, William James, distinguished Irish- American physician and medical educator, b. at Bally- nahowna, near Aughrim, Co. Galway, Ireland, 21 March, 1763; d. at New York, 12 July, 1841. Hisau- cestors were driven by Cromwell from the North of Ireland where they held large possessions to the wilds of (Jonnaught. William James MacNeven was the eldest of four sons. At the age of twelve he was sent by his uncle Baron MacNeven, to receive his educa- tion abroad, for the penal laws rendered education im- possible for Catholics in Ireland. Thia Baron Uac- Neven was William O'Kelly MacNeven, an Irish exile ihyeician, who for hia me<fical skill in her service hod
tn created an Austrian noble by the Empress Maria
phyai
were also printed
nal",thenownedby Biahop John Hughes. In 1848 he thought of atarting a semi-monthly magazine and then a semi-weekly independent Catholic paper, but aban- doned both ideas, and, with money loaned him by George V.Hecker, bought "The Freeman's Journal" in June, 1848, from Bishop Hughes. He at once assumed ita editorial management, which he retained up to the time of his death. Letters he wrote then to Orestes A. Brownson clearly show that even at this early date lie was dominated by the aversion to episcopal supervi- sion and a determination to propound his own views which was such a characteristic feature of his later
Sound on fundamental issues and principles, fault- finding was one of his weaknesses. He spared no one, high or low, who differed from him. and his invective was as bitter as an unlimited vocabulary could make it. He quarrelled almost immediately with Risliop Hughes on the Irish question and with Brownson on hia philosophy. In polities he waa a States Rights Democrat ana Anti- Abolitionist and tooka very active and influential part in the great national controversies that raged before the Civil War. After the conflict began, his editorial assaults on President Lincoln and his adroinistratitHi resulted in hia being arrested, in 1861 , and confined for eleven months in Fort Lafayette ua disloyal citizen. "The Freeman's Journal waa Buppressed by the Government and did not resume
Kbiication until 19 Anril, 1862. In national politics then adopted a milder tone, but for the rest the old style remained. In European politics Louia Veuillot aiidbis"Univers"(i-ere the conalant models of "The FrvetOAD'a Journal". Tliei« is record of his saying of
waa a favourite
pupil of thediatin-
Snshed professor estel and took his degree in 1784. The same year he returned to Dublin
opened before him in medicine, but he became involved in the revolution- ary disturbances of the time with such men as Ixtrd Edward Fitzger- ald, Thomas Ad- dis Emmet, and his brother Rob- ert. He was ar- rested in March, 1798, and confined in Kilmainham Jail, and after- wards in Fort
George, Scotland, until 1802, when he was hberated and exiled. In 1803, ho was in Paris seeking an in- terview with Bonaparte in order to obtain French troops for Ireland. Disappointed it ~ MactJeven can ' ' - - " 4July, 180Q,
e to America, landing at New York on
