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John Collins McCabe was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was of substantial Scottish and Irish descent, and was the son of William and Jane (Collins) McCabe, and grandson of James McCabe who distinguished himself under Montgomery at the storming of Quebec.
Denied the opportunity of much formal schooling, he largely educated himself, developing his youthful talent for speaking by active attendance upon a Richmond debating society and writing copiously for the newspapers and local magazines. He originally intended to prepare for the bar and read law for about a year, but the press of domestic circumstances altering his plans he entered the Farmer's Bank of Richmond, where he remained for a number of years.
On October 28, 1848, he was ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal church by Bishop William Meade, having taken deacon's orders two years earlier. From his first parish, Isle of Wight County, where he was rector of the old brick church near Smithfield, he was called to historic St. John's in Hampton. During his pastorate here he served as chairman of the state yellow-fever committee when the plague ravaged Norfolk and its environs. From 1856 to 1859 he was rector of the Church of the Ascension in Baltimore, and then of St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel County, Md. , until 1861, when he gave up his charge, "ran the blockade, " and joined the Confederate army as chaplain of the 32nd Virginia Regiment. In 1862 he was transferred from field service to become chaplain-general to the Confederate military prisons of Libby and Castle Thunder in Richmond, remaining in this office until the close of the war and winning the affection of the Federal prisoners by his many kindnesses to them. Afterward he had charges at Bladensburg, Md. , and Middletown, Del. , before settling in Chambersburg, Pa. , where he died.
During his lifetime McCabe enjoyed considerable local reputation as a man of letters, and is said to have commanded a high price for his writings, although his only publication in book form was the juvenile collection of periodical pieces and verses called Scraps (1835). He was a frequent contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger while Poe and, later, John R. Thompson were its editors. Poe not only gave him literary advice and encouragement, but was himself apparently attracted by McCabe's individuality, genial manners, and lofty character, for their professional relations rapidly developed into intimacy. He also lectured on literary or historical subjects, delivered numerous memorial addresses, wrote for the newspapers and the church journals, and composed occasional lyrics, several of which possess real merit; but the bulk of this work was ephemeral and perhaps his chief service to posterity grew out of his antiquarian interests, opportunity for the indulgence of which was supplied by his pastorates in tidewater Virginia. A recognized authority on the colonial beginnings and subsequent growth of the church in his native state, he made abstracts from the parish registers for an "Early History of the Church in Virginia" and published in the Church Review sketches of many of the parishes embodying the results of his scholarly genealogical and historical investigations, ultimately transferring his manuscript to Bishop Meade for use in writing the latter's Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (2 vols. , 1857).
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John wed three times. His first wife was Emily Hardaway, the daughter of Dr. Peter and Agnes Hardaway. They had at least two children, Mary and Emily. He married his second wife, Eliza Sophia Keith Smith (1814-1861), herself a widower with a child Jane, at "Presque Isle", Chesterfield County, Va. , on August 7, 1838. They had at least two children together: Isabella Gordon (b. 1839) and William Gordon (1841-1920). (William became a prominent educator, served in the Richmond Howitzers during the Civil War, and is buried at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg. ) John wed his third wife Marie V. Deford in Henrico County on 15 May 1862.
26 October 1813 - 18 July 1837
1814-1861
Born in 1839.
Died on 18 Jul 1888.
10 January 1831 - 7 July 1832
4 Augst 1841 - 1 June 1920
