The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mes ^[cClurg was called to the former, GeorgeAVythe to tlie latter, and George Washington waselected chancellor. Thus the college became the firstin America to practice the electiv
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mes ^[cClurg was called to the former, GeorgeAVythe to tlie latter, and George Washington waselected chancellor. Thus the college became the firstin America to practice the elective system and tosupport a chair for the study of municipal , after peace was declared with Great Brit-ain, was made first bishop of the Episcopal churchof Virginia, and probably this fact contributed tothe distrust with which the college continued to betreated by the people. The Episcopal church in-herited in a great degree the odium of the old estab-lishment, and the college suffered from these preju-dices, though there was no longer any legal connectionbetween church and college. Added to this, asanother cause of depression, was the fact that all theold laws of the legislature affording revenue to theinstitution were repealed. The college was left toits unaided resources, which, outside of the fees ofthe studenis whose number was small, coasisted ofthe crown lauds, without much value at the a^^Ct>r seeking consecration Bishop Madison gave the labors of a life to the col-lege. He was married in 1779 to Sarah Tateof AVilliamsburg, a granddaughter of WilliamCocke, secretary of the colony. She died Aug. 20,1815, leaving one son, John Catesby Madison, andone daughter who married Robert G. Scott, a dis-tinguished lawyer of Virginia. A brother of BishopMadison, George Madison, became governor of Ken-tucky. Bishop Madison died March 6, 1812. Hisremains lie interred in the chapel of the College ofWilliam and Mary. BRACKEN, John, ninth president of Williamand Mary
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