McCALL
McCALLA
commissioned brigadier-general U.S. volunteers,
May 17, 1861, and participated in the action at
Dranesville, Va., Dec. 20, 1861. He commanded
the 3d division of Fitz John Porter's 5th corps in
the Seven Days' battles, June 25-30, 1862, and at
the battle of Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862, he
commanded the entire force engaged. He led
his brigade in the battle of Gaines's Mill, June
27, 1862. and at the battle of New Market Cross
Roads, June 30, 1862, where he was taken pris-
oner. He was confined in Libby prison, Rich-
mond, Va., June 27 to Aug. 18, 1862, and was on
sick leave of absence from Aug. 18, 1862, to
March 31, 1863, when he resigned his commission
and retired to his farm at Belair, Pa. In August,
1862, the citizens of Chester county presented
him with a sword and in the autumn of 1864 he
was the Democratic candidate for representative
from his district in tiie 39th congress. He is the
author of: Letters from the Frontier (published
posthumously, 1868). He died in Belair, Pa., Feb.
26, 1868.
McCALL, Peter, law instructor, was born in Trenton, N.J., Aug. 31, 1809; son of Peter and Sarah (Gibson) McCall, and grandson of Archi- bald and Juditli (Kemble) McCall. He v^^as grad- uated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1826, A.M., 1829. He studied law under J. R. Ingersoll; and practised in Philadelphia, 1831-80. He was a member of the city council for several years and mayor of the city, 1841-45. He was a vice-pro- vost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia for thirty years; professor of pleading and practice in the law department of the University of Penn- sylvaina and a trustee of the university, 1861-80. He delivered many addresses, including Progress and Influence of the Society of Friends in Phila- delphia (1832); RUe and Progress of Civil Society <1836); History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity (183S) . He died in Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1880.
McCALL, Samuel Walker, representative, was born in E.ist Providence, Pa., Feb. 28, 1851; son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, and grandson of William McCall. He passed his early life in Illinois; prepared for college at New Hampton, N.H., academy; was grad- uated from Dartmouth college in 1874; was admitted to the bar in 1876, and began prac- tice in Boston. Ho was editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser; was a representative in the state legislature, 1888, 1889 and 1892; was presi- dent of the Republican state convention of Massa- chusetts in 1896; was a delegate to the Republi- can national conventions that met in Chicago, June 19, 1888, and in Philadelphia, 1900, and a representative from the eight district of Massa- chusetts in the 53d-58th congresses, 1893-1905. He is the author of TJiaddeus Stevens (1899) in the " American Statesman Series."
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McCALLA, Bowman Hendry, naval ofHcer,
was born in Camden, N.J., June 19, 1844; son of
Auley and Mary Dufiield (Hendry) McCalla;
grandson of Auley and Hannah (Gibbon) Mc-
Calla and of Dr. Bowman and Elizabeth (Duf-
field) Hendry; great-grandson of Thomas and
(Bowman) Hen-
dry, and a descend-
ant of John and Jane
McCalla, who came
from Scotland in
1750 with a grant of
land in Pennsylvania
and settled in Mont-
gomery county, af-
terward removing to
Roadstown, N.J. He
was graduated at the
U.S. Naval academy
in November, 1864;
and was promoted
master, Dec. 1, 1866.
He served on the
training ship Sabine on the Atlantic station,
1867-68; was promoted lieutenant, March 12,
1868; served on the Tuscarora of the South
Pacific and North Atlantic squadrons, 1868-71,
and was promoted lieutenant-commander, March
26, 1869. He was attached to the H\tbash, flag-
ship of the European squadron, 1871-72; to the
Wachusett of the European fleet in 1873. and was
on duty at the U.S. Naval academy, 1874-78. He
was married, March 3, 1875, to Elizabeth Hazard,
daughter of Gen. Horace Binney Sargent, of Bos-
ton, Mass. He served on the Powhatan of the
North Atlantic station, 1878-81; was assistant to
the bureau of navigation, 1881-87; was promoted
commander, November, 1884, and commanded
the naval force on the Isthmus of Panama in 1885.
He commanded the Enterprise on the European
station, 1887-90, and iji the latter year while
holding this command he was convicted by court-
martial of striking a mutinous sailor with the
back of his sword and was sentenced to be sus-
pended from rank and duty for three years. In
1891 Secretary Tracy remitted the unexpired por-
tion of his sentence. He was granted a full and
unconditional pardon by President McKinley,
March 13, 1900, He was on duty at the Mare Island
navy yard, 1893-97; was instructor at the war
college. 1897; commanded the protected cruiser
Marhlehend. 1897-98, and seized the British steam-
ship Adula in Cuban waters, June. 1898, on the
claim that the vesspl was violating the blockade,
and served in the North Atlantic squadron dur-
ing the war with Spain. He was promoted cap-
tain and advanced seven numbers, Aug. 10. 1898,
for heroic and distinguished services during the
Spanish- American war, and this re.stored him to