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Marvin, William – Mason, Javan K

Marvin, William

lawyer, jurist, was a citizen of Florida. He was appointed United States judge for the southern district of that state.

Maryott, E. Edgar

physician, author, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in North Stonington, Mass. He is the author of The New Medical World, a popular work on hygiene and progressive medicine.

Mash, Samuel Lewis

lawyer, was born Nov. 15, 1868, in Vicksburg, Miss.

When a youth he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in which city his father was a blacksmith. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his profession with success. He was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention in 1892; was the author of the civil rights bill of Iowa; and was instrumental in having it become a law in 1893.

Mason, Charles

astronomer, was born in 1730 in England. In 1763 he was commissioned to survey the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland by the respective proprietors of these colonies. He died in February, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Mason, Charles O

poet. He is a writer of Glens Falls, N. Y.; and the author of a number of poems.

MASON, MRS. CLARA STEVENS AR- THUR, poet, was born in 1844 in Maine.

She is the author of The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of poems.

Mason, David Hastings

journalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Chicago journalist who has published a Short Tariff History of the United States.

Mason, Ebenezer Porter

astronomer, was born Dec. 7, 1819, in Washington, Conn. He attained eminence as an astronomer. He died Dec. 20, 1840, in Richmond, Va.

Mason, Emily Virginia

educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 15, 1815, in Lexington, Ky. She was a nurse in confederate hospitals and after the civil war an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.

Mason, Erskine

clergyman, was born April 16, 1805, in New York city. He was pastor of a presbyterian church at Schenectady in 1827; and of the Bleecker Street church in New York in 1830. From 1836 till 1842 he was professor of ecclesiastical history in Union Theological seminary. He died May 14, 1851, in New York city.

Mason, Erskine

surgeon, author, was born May 8, 1837, in New York city.

From 1879 till 1882 he was clinical lecturer on surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York city. Among his frequent contributions to medical periodical literature may be mentioned those on Lumbar Colotomy; The Operation of Laparotomy, with a Case; Perityphlitis; and Amputation at the Hip Joint. He died April 13, 1860, in New York city. a

Mason, George Champlin

architect, author, was born July 17, 1820, in Newport, R. I. He was an architect of Newport, R. I.; and the author of Newport and Its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; and Reminiscences of Newport. He died in 1894.

Mason, Javan K

clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 20, 1817, in Bethel, Maine.

He has been chaplain of the Maine state prison; and for over a quarter of a century an overseer of Bowdoin college. He has contributed extensively to religious literature, and is the author of a number of poems and hymns.