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Hallowell's Academy, at Alexandria,
Many of the students, like Gen. r. E..
Lee, became famous in the world. Old
Mr.. Hallowell was a Quaker, and was
renowned as a mathematician. Young
Mr.. McLaughlin's classical attainments
attracted Mr.. Hallowell, who invited him
to teach and soon the classics were as
well taught as the sciences at Hallowell r
Academy. Among Mr.. McLaughlins
warmest friends and admirers at this pc.
riod was young Henry Winter Davis,
Just beginning the practice Of law at AL
exandria. Another acquaintance formed
by the young tutor was Miss Mary Anne
Sheehy, who had recently flushed her
studies at St. Joseph's Academy, EN-
millsburg. Nd. She was the daughter OF
wealthy importing merchant of Alex
audria, Edmund Sheehy, grandson OF
that noble Irish patriot Edmund Sheehy
OF ClonmeI, County Tipperary, Ireland
who perished on the scafiold at Clogheen,
near Clonmel, on the 3rd of May, 1T66
one of the foulest judicial murders in all
the blood stained annals of penal days in
Ireland. His cousin, the celebrated Fa
ther Nicholas Sbeehy, had been
hanged, drawn, and quartered at Clonme
few weeks before on the same false aud
atrocious charge of murder. The head
of Father Sheehy was stuck on spike
and placed on the porch of the Jail al
Clonmel to strike terror into the heart:
of the people, and remained there fol
twenty years The vile conspiracy which
thus triumphed in the murder of two In
n, cent patriots was fully exposed In The
course of the next year, 1867, i'll the Lon
don Genllemens Magazine. Father
Sheehy heard the confession OF a mar
who had committed murder, and The
priest. refusing to divulge the secrets o
the confessional, was himself butchereC
in the horrible manner related. Hi
cousin, Edmund Sheehy, although prover
to have been in another part of the coun
try when the man was killed, was appre
bended on his return, and, being cous
in of Father Sheehy, and a devout Cath
olic of an ancient family whose influence
was dreaded by the government, he, too
was put to death in the same blood thirst,
manner as the priest.
James Sbeeby, son Of the murdered pa
triot, soon left the kingdom for the colo
ny Of Virginia, and made his home at Al
exandria, then in Fairfax county. ii
there married, and had issue one son, +
whom he gave the honored name Of hi
father. Edmund. When Mclaughlin set
tied at Alexandria, this Edmund Sheeh
was the father of a large family, and
very prosperous merchant. Beauty,
says Madden in his memoirs OF tn
Countess of Blessington," a grauddaugh
ter of Edmund Sheehy, "was the herltag
of the Sheehy family" 1t was not denie
to his great-granddaughter, the youn
lady in question. Mr.. Mclaughlin b.
came a suitor for her hand. They wei
married on the 18th of June, 1886.
The late Rev. Robert Fulton, 5. j.,
native of Alexandria, used to tell abo'
famous debating society in Washingto'
in which Salmon P. Chase, Thomas
Ewing, Judge Cranch, james Hoba'
Francis Scott Key, and other magnat
we're members. H. c. Mclaughlin wi
also member, aud one of the ornamen
of the society, aud when speech By hi
was expected, added Father Fulton, Il
hall was always crowded.
In 1912 the Board of Directors OF Il
Upper Marlboro (Ml) Academy, an J
stitulion with State endowment, elect
Mr.. Mclaughlin principal Tor the ne