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[728] succeeding six years. In December, 1891, he became chief justice and was re-elected to that position in January, 1898. His patriotic record in war and his distinguished career in peace, as well as his high rank as a jurist, make him one of the prominent historic characters of the State. By his marriage in June, 1849, to Caroline H., daughter of Dr. Thomas E. Powe, Judge McIver has five children living: Eleanor H., Mary H., Thomas P., Edward, and Charlotte H. Robert Sinclair McKay, deceased, for many years leader among the citizens of Greenville, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, but was reared in South Carolina, being brought to this country when two years of age by his parents, Hugh Alexander and Ann (Ferguson) McKay. In youth he served an apprenticeship as a printer, and by private study obtained an excellent education. At the age of twenty-two years he was elected clerk of the court, a position which he filled for twelve years, subsequently being elected probate judge. The latter office he resigned to enter the military service, becoming a private in the Butler Guards, Company C, Second South Carolina regiment. He was a faithful soldier as long as his age and health permitted, and in every emergency demonstrated his loyalty to the State. Subsequently he was re-elected probate judge, and in 1878 he was admitted to the bar, becoming a member of one of the leading professional firms. But after demonstrating his ability in the successful conduct of an important case, he abandoned the law and embarked in journalism, conducting for many years with marked success the Greenville Daily News. Still later he was in business as a merchant, until his death in 1889. He retained to the last a lively interest in the Confederate cause and its heroes, and contributed liberally to the literature of Confederate history. Lieutenant Ralph McLendon entered the Confederate service in the spring of 1861, in the Darlington Guards, known as Company B, of the First South Carolina infantry, as a private, and served with that company until after the fall of Fort Sumter, when he volunteered to go to Virginia, being the first man from his county to do so. After reaching Virginia he was a member of the Pee Dee rifles, letter and number of regiment being the
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