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first appeared in the "Montreal Gazette," and was afterwards reproduced in many newspapers in England and the United States. After the war he returned to Charlestown (now in West Virginia), but the "test oath" provisions would not admit of his practicing his profession until 1870, when he formed a law partnership with Judge Thomas B. Green, afterwards president of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia. In 1884-86 he was a member of the legislature, and in that body he was the important factor in defeating the election of a Standard Oil Company official as a United States senator, and his speech on that occasion was widely disseminated. On March 5. 1887, he was appointed United States senator by Governor Wilson. On December 5, 1889, on the death of Judge Green, of the supreme court of appeals, he was appointed to fill the position, to which he was elected at the end of the term. After leaving the bench he lived a retired life. In 1875 he delivered the ode at the semi-cen- tennial anniversary of the University of Virginia. He published "Memoir of John Yates Beall." "The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems," "The Maid of Northumberland," "Ballads and Madrigals." "Nicaragua and the Filibusters." In recognition of his ample learning, and brilliant qualities as an orator and writer, the University of Virginia conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. 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 Harrison, 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, Virginia (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 Company H, First Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Captain William H. Murray, attached to Elzey's brigade, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He participated in the first battle of Manassas, and subsequently in Stonewall Jackson's famous valley campaign of 1862, in the various engagements from Harper's Ferry to Cross Keys, at which battle having been appointed aide-de-camp te Brigadier-General George H. Stewart) he had a horse shot under him. In the camaign of 1863. Lieutenant McKim was several times mentioned for gallantry in official 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 ammunition, under fire, to the men of the Third Brigade lying in the Federal breast works on Culp's Hill. In this battle he was touched four times by the bullets of the enemy, but escaped serious injury. In the following autumn he resigned. with the consent or his superior officers, in order to fit himself for the post of chaplain. He spent the winter in study in Staunton, Virginia, and was ordained in May, 1864. He then served as chaplain in the field until the surrender of Appomattox, first in Chew's Battalion of