a Presbyterian minister, was born in Columbia Co., Pa., in 1806; graduated at Washington College, Washington, Pa., in 1832; studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary, Alleghany City, Pa.; was licensed in 1835, and installed pastor of West Liberty Church, Pa.; afterwards labored in the Ridge Church, Madison, and Holmesville churches, Ohio, within the bounds of Steubenville and New Lisbon Presbyteries, and died July 27,1863. Mr. McCartney was gifted with superior intellectual powers, logical and discriminating in his theological views, an excellent scholar, and a successful minister. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1864, p. 175.