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McCAFFREY, John, clergyman, born in Emmettsburg, Maryland, 6 September, 1806; died there, 25 September, 1882. He studied theology in Emmettsburg and Baltimore, was ordained priest in 1838, and immediately afterward appointed president of Mount St. Mary's college, where he made many improvements. Among others, he began the erection of a fine church. He twice declined a. bishopric. Dr. McCaffrey was a man of wide erudition and much literary ability. His principal publications were a course of lectures on literary and philosophical subjects delivered before the Philomathean society of Mount St. Mary's, a series of lectures before the Catholic association of Baltimore, several addresses, among which one on the "Landing of the Pilgrims" attracted great attention, and funeral orations on Bishop Dubois and Bishop Brute, which have been considered models of their kind. He was also the author of a series of catechisms (New York).
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