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Mccloskey, John (Clergyman college president)

clergyman, college president, was born in 1817, in Ireland. He was ordained in 1840; attached himself to the faculty of St. Mary's. He was elected vice-president and treasurer in 1844, and became president in 1871.

He resigned in 1877, but was again called to the presidency in 1879, which office he held until his death. He died Dec. 24, 1880, in Emmettsburg, Md.

MCCLOSKEY, WILLIAM GEORGE, bishop, was born Nov. 10, 1823, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1859 Pope Pius IX made him the first president of the American college in Rome, which had just been founded by that pontiff. Here he presided with great success for several years; until he was appointed to the see of Louisville, Ky., in 1868.