“ McKIM, CHARLES FOLLEN (1847–1909) , American architect, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of August 1847. His father, James Miller McKim (1810–1874) , originally a Presbyterian minister, was a prominent abolitionist and one of the founders (1865) of the New York Nation. The son studied at Harvard (1866–1867) and at Paris in the École des Beaux-Arts (1867–1870) , and in 1872 became an architect in New York City, entering the office of H. H. Richardson ”