New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . posit, Cecil County, Md., .\pril 21, 1791, and, withhis brothers, William and Thomas, served against the with which he served as First Lieutenant imtil July, 1863,when he was honorably discharged. He served on the staffof (ieneral McCall, at another time on the staff of (ieneralE. O. C. Ord, and was engaged in all the battles of theArmy of the Potomac with his command, excepting fought in the bloody and decisive battle of leaving the army Secretary Chase apjjointed himS])ecial U. S. Treasury Agent for
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . posit, Cecil County, Md., .\pril 21, 1791, and, withhis brothers, William and Thomas, served against the with which he served as First Lieutenant imtil July, 1863,when he was honorably discharged. He served on the staffof (ieneral McCall, at another time on the staff of (ieneralE. O. C. Ord, and was engaged in all the battles of theArmy of the Potomac with his command, excepting fought in the bloody and decisive battle of leaving the army Secretary Chase apjjointed himS])ecial U. S. Treasury Agent for the District of EasternVirginia and North Carolina ; but this position he resignedin August, 1865, and resumed his legal studies. He wascalled to the bar the same month, and on December5, 1875, admitted to membership in the Sujjreme Court ofthe United States. He was not long engaged in the activepractice of this profession when he became one of itsleaders, and took part in many of the most im])ortant casestried in the State of Pennsylvania. Having achieved success. CHARLES \V. M.\CKEV. British in the war of 1812-14. H^ father before him ( grandfather) served in the Continental armyduring the war of the Revolution, and as the subject of thissketch served in the Union army during the war of theRebellion. Through his grandmother, Kaziah RebeccaMuri)hy, of Tyrone, Ireland, he inherits his strain of brightIrish blood, and through his mother, Julia Ann Fagundus,he is descended from good Cerman stock. The Fagundasfamily, originally from Frankfort-on-the-Main, settled iniennsylvania in 1732. Mr. Mackey learned how to printw hen a mere boy, ])ublished a newspajjcr while still in histeens, and at the age of eighteen entered the office of hisbrother-in-law, the Hon. Charles K. Taylor, to study the outbreak of the war (1S61) he, with other youngmen, organized the Venango (irays, afterward CompanyC, of the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve \olunteer Corps, as a lawyer, Mr. Mackey
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