The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-07-28

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MCCauley. tho subject of this sketch,
who was born in The stone house &fore-
said, on the weuty-third day of August,
1909, his father being John McCauley,
son of James McCauley, brother Of
Daniel, John and his wife being first
cousins. John McCAuley had brother
| Daniel, who married Elizabeth Harvey,
and was father of Rev. J. 4, McCauley,
sixteen years president OF Dickinson
College.
The father OF Daniel and James
McCsuley was Barney McCaulsy, who
came IRON the north of Ireland, and
landed at New Castle about the middle
of the last century, aud married one of
family Of SWISS emigrauts, Anu Miller,
who mad sister Barbara and two
brothers. John and Henry, who settled
about Perryville or HaVre de Grace.
1 r 4, al.
Barney McCauley belonged in the old
country; he was OF the Protestant per
suasiop, and is understood to have been
| OF the family of that name whom Crom-
we'll brought from Scotland to people
the north OF Ireland, from which he had
driven the former inhabitants, the
descendants of whom are scattered over
the United States with the names Of
| Barney and Daniel Barnard and Don
ADD running through all the tribes.
The children Of Barney and Ann, his
wife, were: JOnu, Daniel, James, Barney
| Mary, Susan aud Ann. John and Barney
went to Virginia, and Daniel and James
remained in Cecil county, The children
| of Daniel anu Francina were: Henry,
| Elizabeth, Ann, Lydia and Daniel Qor-
mcrly sheriff.. The children of James
| (sou Of BArney) and Elizabeth, his wife,
were John, Daniel, Margaret, Ann and
Betsey. The children of John, son of
James, and Elizabeth, daughter of
Daniel, we're: James (subject of the
present sketch), Daniel, Harriet,
| Elizabeth, Lydianr, Mary Jane, John II
and Martha. AS before stated James
educated in Mafiil's school house, near
what is row the UGiou Church, where
lie learned reading, writing and arith-
metic, but has 10 recollection that
| geography or grammar were taught,
but he afterwards attended ten lessons
On English grammar by Dr.. Cleveland
at North East, and taught English
grammar by lecture afterwards, and also
common school, and was self taught in
the art of surveying, and being of a
mechanical turn, made a surveyors
compass aud chain to begin operations.
He learned the trade of cooper, but
did not follow it long. but after coming
of age in 1880, was for a short time with
the engineers on the main stem of the
B. & 0. railroad, at Sykes Mills, now
called Sykesyille. The engineer was d
Mr.. Vance, educated AZ Captain Par
tridges military school, and was assisted
by an elderly gentleman named Miller
He rode from Baltimore to EllcoLt City
J in cars drawn by hoIses-there being nc
steam cars in the UnIted States at that
, time-they changed horses at the Relay
| House. hence the name. The chic
engineer on tho road was Casper Weaver
and the president, Ph,lip E. Thomas.
} He recollects That Oh board the steam
5 boat to Baltimore thero was au Euglisl
gentleman who was telling of the tria
trip on the Liverpool and Mancheste
r. r., and the accidental death of Mr.
! Hoskissou, NJ. p, and the active pro,
t muter of the road. About 1888 Mr.
= McCauley was engaged in making port.
= able four horse threshing machines, TIT
| first III the county, doing the wood ant
& iron work with his own hands, excep
/. turning the iron and the casting. Or
the twenty seventh OF November, 1884
Mr. McCauley married Sarah Warringtol
, daughter of Hugh Beard, of Brick Meet
ing House, county surveyor during al
active period in taking up vacant land
a His wife died in 1916, leaving five chill
dreu: Lizzie and Mary (twiusl, Johu
p Rachel and Hannah Louisa. In 1S4
Mr.. McCauley was appointed count
v surveyor by Governor Pratt, and Their
$ being number of land cases on til
docket, some of long standing, he set t
. work and soon prepared them for Cour
aud John ii. Harlan and wife, Msrgare
AurelIa, Brown and Hanshaw, Patric
Ewirr. Washington Hall and Canal Cor
o. pany, and others, were no longer seen a
g the Courts with their host of witnesses
r and suits OF eisctment, and trespass Case
y arc very rare, and it is as we'll So a
. they were unprotitsbe About 1911 tn
p | lands OF the Elk OTSo NDlHptHy, sOHl
r 400 acres, had to be surveyed an
!. divided into lots for sale, and the pric
# of land was very low. The surveyc
recolects that in 1881 he was called o
to survey long line of Elk Forge Lane
which he had run forty years before, an
he found, with the same compass, thu
?, the variation of the needle was inst w
Y, degrees west, which is about tho rate {
s, his general experience.
Mr. McCauley's second wife wa
Millicent X. Price aud the children al
Helen A., James j. and Hattie S. Hole
s. prepared for the Cecil County Agricultr
d al Society, probably the best botanic
7 collection of the native plants of Geo
n county, having. over five hundre
! species properly classified. In 49,
a Mr.. eCauley was elected Register
Wills for six years, which ran into tt