BIO: James Andrew McCauley, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER XXXVIII. BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. 383 BOROUGH OF CARLISLE. JAMES ANDREW McCAULEY, D.D., LL.D., president of Dickinson College, was born near Elkton, Cecil Co., Md., October 7, 1822. His earliest educational advantages were had in the schools of the neighborhood; but the family removing to Baltimore, in his boyhood, his education was continued in the city. Quitting school at seventeen, he took a position in a business house, without, however, serious thought of adopting business as a life pursuit; for, thus early even, monitions of duty to preach had been, at times, distinctly heard. These monitions pervaded the years spent in business, acquiring, at length, a constancy and force, which, in the end, he came to feel it were a peril not to heed. Business was accordingly relinquished, and preparation for the ministry com- 384 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. menced. After a year of preparatory study he entered, in 1844, the freshman class at Dickinson, and, at the suggestion of the faculty, doubling work the second year, he graduated the second in scholastic rank in the class of 1847. The two years succeeding graduation were spent in teaching, as private tutor, in one of the old historic families of Maryland. Admitted to the Baltimore Conference in 1850, and assigned a charge adjacent to the city, he was, midway the year, transferred to the principalship of the Wesleyan Female Institute, a school of high grade for ladies, located at Staunton, Va., whose patronage the Conference had assumed. To the development of this new enterprise he gave unsparing labor, with the result of conspicuous success. The cares and labors incident to organization and constant supervision affected his health, and at the end of the third year, though in the midst of great prosperity, he was constrained to seek release. A period of rest and travel restored his health, and in the spring of 1854 he resumed the work of the pastorate. Except two charges in Virginia - Front Royal and Fredericksburg - his ministry, till 1872, was chiefly exercised in Baltimore and in the District of Columbia; from 1869, as presiding elder of the Washington District. In the summer of 1872 he was elected president of Dickinson College, which position he has since continuously held. His term of service here has witnessed great improvement in all the interests of the college. Besides the addition to its endowment of more than $100,000, and the thorough repair of its old buildings, three new structures have been erected, at an aggregate cost of $115,000. On two occasions - first in 1872, and again in 1884 - he was chosen to represent his conference in the general conference, the highest council of the church. In 1872 he was designated by this body its fraternal messenger to bear the greetings of the American Church to that of Great Britain. In 1874, in association with Bishop Harris, he performed this duty, visiting the Wesleyan Conference, at Cambourne, Cornwall. On completing this service, various parts of England and the continent were visited, including the Universities of Oxford and Heidelberg. In 1868 his alma mater conferred on him the degree of D.D., and, in 1883, Lafayette College the degree of LL.D.