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Mason, William – Mather, Richard Henry
Mason, William
pianist, composer, was born Jan. 24, 1829, in Boston, Mass.
In 1855-56 he established, in connection with Theodore Thomas, a series of clas- These concerts became sical soirees. known as the Mason and Thomas soirees, which were continued until 1868. He has published about forty compositions for the piano-forte, and is the author of two piano-forte methods, and also a system of Piano-forte Technics.
Mason, William E
lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born July 7, 1850, in Franklinville, N.
Y. Since 1872 he has maintained a law office in Chicago, Ill. He was elected to the general assembly in 1879, and to the state : senate in 1881. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses and defeated for the fifty-second in the landslide of 1892. He was elected to the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Piketon, Ohio.
Masury, John W
manufacturer, inventor, was born Jan. 1, 1820, in Salem, Mass. He established a large paint store in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is known as Masury and Son. He was the inventor of a mill for grinding colors in quick drying varnish to an impalpable fineness.
Mather, Eleazer
clergyman, was born May 13, 1637, in Dorchester, Mass.
He was ordained minister over the first church that was organized in Northampton, Mass., in 1658, and retained that pastorate till his death. He died July 24, 1669, in Northampton, Mass.
Mather, Fred
pisciculturist, author, was born in August, 1833, in Albany, N. Y.
He is a pisciculturist of note, and the author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks. MATHER, FREDERIC GREGORY, journalist, was born Aug. 11, 1844, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he became managing editor of the Times at Binghamton, N. Y., and in 1875 editor-in-chief of the Republican in the same city, but resigned the place in 1879. He wrote editorials for the Albany Evening Journal in 1880.
Mather, Increase
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 21, 1639, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North church, and president of Harvard college in 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces.
He died Aug. 23, 1723, in Dorchester, Mass.
Mather, Margaret
actress, was born in 1862 in Canada. She opened her career in 1882 as Juliet, at McVicker's theater, Chicago, and her success was instantaneous. She died in 1898.
Mather, Moses
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1719, in Lyme, Conn.
He was a congregational clergyman of Darien, Conn., from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. He was the author of Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; and Election Sermons.
He died Sept. 21, 1806, in Darien, Conn.
Mather, Richard
clergyman, author, was born in 1596 in England. He was a puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester 1636-69. He was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. He died April 22, 1669, in Dorchester, Mass.
Mather, Richard Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1835, in Binghamton, N. Y. He secured for Amherst college the finest collection of plaster casts in the United States. He has edited Greek text-books for use in colleges, which have passed through several editions. The principal ones are Herodotus; selections from Thucydides, the Electra of Sophocles; abstract of lectures upon sculpture; and the Prometheus Bound of Æschylus.