James McQuade

               OBITUARY.
           GEN. JAMES M'QUADE.
 Gen. James McQuade, who was taken
from St. Vincent's Hospital, in this city, to
Utica on Tuesday, died at the residence of his
brother in that city at 1:20 yesterday morning.
 Gen. McQuade was a native of Utica, where he
was born April 27, 1829, the eldest of a family of
nine children. After receiving a common school
education in Utica he entered the Catholic col-
lege in Montreal, where he became a fine Latin
and French scholar. On returning to Utica he
studied law in the offices of Joshua A. Spencer
and Francis Kernan. He abandoned the study
of law, however, and went into the banking
business, to abandon that after a short trial for
politics. He was made Assistant Clerk of the
Assembly in 1851, serving in that capacity for
five years. In 1854 he went into the coffee and
spice business in Utica, selling out to his brother
several years later. He was elected a
member of the Assembly as a Republican
in 1859, being defeated in the following year
by Francis Kernan. Gen. McQuade was Captain
of the Utica Citizens Corps at the outbreak of
the war of the rebellion. The day after the
firing on Fort Sumter the corps offered its serv-
ices to Gov. Morgan, and enlisted as a company
of volunteers under the first call for troops,
April 17, 1861.  The corps left Utica April 24,
1861, being enlisted for two years. It remained
at Albany for some time, where the Fourteenth
Regiment was formed, and mustered in May 17.
The corps became Company A, and Capt. Mc-
Quade was chosen Colonel of the regiment,
which consisted of 10 companies. At the battle
od Malvern Hill Col. McQuade acted in com-
mand of the brigade to which his regiment was
attached, the Colonels of the Sixty-second Mas-
sachusetts and the Ninth Michigan having been
killed during the fight. He continued to act in
this capacity to the closeof his term of service
--a period of 18 months. For his bravery and
gallant services he was recommended by Gen.
McClellan for promotion to Brigadier-General,
but the appointment was not made. For 10 days
previous to the battle of Chancellorsville Gen.
McQuade had been ill, but when the battle be-
gan he was taken in an ambulance to the field,
where he mounted his horse and commanded his
troops throughout the fight. The battle over,
he fell from his horse exhausted, and was con-
fined to his tent two weeks afterward. He re-
turned to Utica with his regiment May 21, 1863.
He was brevetted both Brigadier-General and
Major-General by President Johnson. He was
one of the founders of the Loyal Legion, organ-
ized George Washington Post, G.A.R., in this
city, and was selected Department Commander 
of the Grand Army of the Republic in this State
in 1879.
 Gen. McQuade was twice elected Mayor of
Utica, once as a Republican and again as a Demo-
crat. He was appointed Postmaster of that city
by President Johnson, but served in that
office but a few months. He was Inspector-
General on the staff of Gen. Hoffman, and
served two terms as Quarantine Commissioner
at this port, being succeeded by Thomas
C. Platt. In the Presidential campaign of
1868 Gen. McQuade was one of the Presidential
electors on the Democratic ticket. He did not
meet with the Electoral College, however, M.M.
Jones serving in his stead and voting for Horatio
Seymour. He was a Tilden Elector in 1876, and
served as Secretary to the Electoral College. He
was appointed one of the managers of the State
Lunatic Asylum in 1872, a position which he held
up to the time of his death.
 During the war Gen. McQuade contracted
malaria, and was never able to get thoroughly
rid of it. His late attacks have assumed a
typhoid form. Last Spring he made a trip to
the West Indies on the yacht Montauk, with
her owner, the late Samuel R. Platt, who was,
at the time of his death last Summer, Rear-
Commodore of the New-York Yacht Club. Gen.
McQuade, after his return, wrote an entertain-
ing account of the trip, entitled "The Cruise of
the Montauk." His wife died two years ago.
One son and two daughters survive hime.
 In the State Senate to-day Senator Coggeshall
offered resolutions of regret at the General's
death, and Mr. Barnum offered similar resolu-
tions in the Assembly. A committee from both
branches will probably be appointed to-day to
attend his funeral at Utica on Friday.