Mcelroy, James, Dd

McElroy, James, D.D.

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was a native of Ireland, and was educated in Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained by bishop Chase in 1829, and officiated successively in Ohio, Virginia, and California. During the five years preceding his death he occupied the St. Paul's Mission in San Francisco. He died in Oakland, California, June 21, 1880. See Whittaker, Almanac and Directory, 1881.