[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Joseph's Provincial Roman Catholic Seminary, in Troy, N. Y. During his incumbency the parsonage, located in the lot ad joining the church on the south, was built. Father McClellan was a man of superior intellectual attain-ments and was much beloved. He was succeeded by Rev. James Hasson, a native of Londonderry. Ireland, who was born February 15, 1821. He received his education in All Hallow's College, Dublin, and was ordained in that country at the age of twenty-five years. Coming to the United States, he served as a brigade chaplain in the War of the Rebellion. After the war he was priest, succes-sively, in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church in New York, in the Roman Catholic Churches at Ver-planck's Point and Peekskill. in the Church of the Transfiguration on Mott Street. New York, and in St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church of Sing Sing. He died in Brooklyn, May 28, 188(1, having gone to the residence of his niece, Mrs. John McCormick, after a vain endeavor to recruit his health at the sea-shore. The primary cause of his death was bron-chitis, contracted during the war. He was succeeded on the 25th of June, 188(1. by the present pastor, the Rev. Patrick W. Tandy, an 0SSTN1NG. 347 Irishman by birth. Father Tandy was educated in this country, finishing his studies in Fordham. lie was the first priest in charge of St. Joseph's Provin-cial Seminary, in Troy, New York, where he entered upon the discharge of his duties in November, 1864.