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Matteson, Orsamus B

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-first, thirty-third, thirtyfourth, and thirty-fifth congresses. MATTESON, TOMPKINS HARRISON, artist, was born May 9, 1813, in Peterborough, N. Y. He began to paint portraits with some success in 1839, and was brought into favorable notice by his Spirit of '76, which the American Art union purchased. His works include The First Sabbath of the Pilgrims; Examination of a Witch; Perils of the Early Colonists; Eliot Preaching to the Indians; First Prayer in Congress; and Rip Van Winkle's Return from the Mountains. He died Feb. 2, 1884, in Sherburne, N. Y.