[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Father Phalen was an Irishman by birth, and came to Sing Sing from the Bermuda Islands. He was a delicate man, and died while on a trip to the South for the benefit of his health, by taking, it is said, a strong medicine by mis-take. He was succeeded by the Rev. Edward McGean, who was pastor for five years, and died March 18, 1861, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. Father McGean was born in Downpatriek, County Down, Ireland, and worked for some time as a mechanic before becoming a priest. He was ordained in America. His death was very sudden, being occasioned by heart-disease. During his time the vestry-room and chancel were added to the church. Father McGean was succeeded by the Rev. William McClellan, who was born in Scotland, May !», 1816, and was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was converted to the Catholic faith when sixteen years of age, and three years later entered St. John's College to study for the Roman Catholic ministry. He was pro-fessor of Greek in that institution for four years, and afterwards upon his ordination to the priesthood was placed in charge of the Church of the Transfigura-tion in New York City. St. Augustine's Church in Sing Sing was the next church presided over by him, He died suddenly, of apoplexy, on the 9th of May, 1871. His theological library, which contained about four thousand well-selected volumes, was rich in fine editions of the classics, and the early fathers of the church, passed into the possession of St.