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

! exciting times of the Civil War. ii
took the side OF the Uuior, ard tC2l
mart in a meeting held in Eiktcn earl.
in the conflict, when the resolution
offered by Colonel George Il. Howard
was adopted that Cecil county vii
stand by the Union if all the rest OF tbs
State seccdes His son John raised {
number OF volunteers aud en:ered "at
Of the MaryIau regiments as first lieu
tenant aud served unit! the regiment
was mustered out.
In 1864 Mr.. McCauley was elected a
member Of the Assembly with jethro }.
Mccullough, Jesse \ Kirk and George
Pennington. Mr.. McCauley was ap-
poiuted chairman on the Committee on
Education and reported the new school
law of 1868 He had for years taken an
active part in tho organization Of public
schools in the comfy, and had IN 1851,
on a committee with F. A. Ellis aud s.
S. Maf1i5 drawn up Z school law Tor the
couuty. under which Mr. Ellis bad acted
as superintendent for severa, ears. Mr..
McCauley has since 1884 been identified
with the Temperance party and in the
Legislature took an active part ia
procuring a law Tor the STATE, closing up
drinking houses ON the day OF elections,
and the character of elections las been
changed for the better, from drunkenness
and fighting to quiet and good order.
In the special session OF 1866 Mr.. Nc
Cauley made the first notion to exempt
mortgages from taxation. 1t lnade quite
a stir, but it did not take much argu-
ment to show that if il nun bought a
property for 81 900 and had to give a
mortgage for half the purchase money,
and was taxed OH the whole property,
and aud on the mortgage, that it was a
double tax as lar as the mortgage was
concerned. Ii passed to exempt taxation
for balance of purchase money! has
siuee been exempted on ali mortgages.
Mr.. McCauley was appointed School
lSSlODtI lDl LILO III
1868 and served as President Of the
Board, until December OF that year when
he was appointed by Gov. Swami, Chief
Judge Of the Orphans Court to take the
place of Levi H. Evans, then recently
deceased and served the balance of the
term, nearly years, and since that time
has beer elected six consecutive terms of
four years each, which will terminate IL
Nov. 1895.
Mr.. McCauley has kept diary over
40 years, and during that active and pro-
gressive period these yearly volumes
doubtless contains many fact that could
not be found elsewhere. His Field Books
of Surveys running back so years are
indexed and easily consulted as we'll as
the copies of surveys and plats which he
usually retained. Mr.. McCauley has
been an occasional contributor to the
papers of the county for nearly seventy
years.
In 1885 he advocated the building
of a new church at Leeds, Oh the
Cscil Circuit of the Methodist Protestant
Church of which he was a member, and
a trustee of Leeds Church, the old one
being out of repair and not in favor.
able location There was objection to
the building of a new one on the ground
of raising SO much money as would be
required, and also getting favorable
site. Mr.. McCauley applied to Mr.
Childs and he without moments hest
tation, granted the desired lot on the
Marley farm of one acre as free gift and
the book of drawings of the NJ. p. Church
extensions was consulted and a plan
agreed upon for church and an annex
for the Sunday School. The subscription
books were opened and literally met,
aud those who had opposed the building
took hold with will, and it was soon
apparent that the funds could be raised
and the materials were paid for, and the
workmen got their wages {whole cost
about $4,000 and it is handsome
country church.
Mr.. McCauley is about completing 4
memorial of Miss Sarah Wilson, who
organized Sunday School at Lseds il
1916, the first in the State, outside Of
baltimore