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Matthews, Charles Philo – Matthias, William

Matthews, Charles Philo

electrical engineer, physicist, author, was born Sept. 18, 1867, in Fort Covington, N.

Y. He is now the associate professor of electrical engineering in the Purdue university; has made a special study of light sources, and is a skilled photometrist. He is the author of several monographs on subjects of an electrical nature, and the joint author of two text-books.

Matthews, George

soldier, congressman, governor, was born in 1739, in Augusta county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1789 to 1791. He was afterward brigadier-general of Georgia militia; and was governor of Georgia in 1780. He died Aug. 30, 1812, in Augusta, Ga.

Matthews, Henry Mason

soldier, educator, governor, was born in 1834, in Greenbrier county, Va. He was for several years a professor in Allegheny college, Pennsylvania; and was a major of artillery in the confederate army during the civil war. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1871; was elected attorneygeneral of the state in 1872; and was elected governor in 1876, and served four years. He died April 29, 1884, in Lewisburg, W. Va.

Matthews, James Newton

physician, author, poet, was born in 1852, in Indiana. He is a physician and poet of Mason, Ill.; and the author of Tempe Vale, and Other Poems.

Matthews, John

educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1772, in Guilford county, N. C. He became president of the Presbyterian Theological seminary at Hanover, Ind. He continued in this office seventeen years, and was for a part of that time vice-president of Hanover college. He was the author of Divine Purpose Displayed in the Works of Providence and Grace; and Influence of the Bible. He dieu May 19, 1848, in New Albany, Ind.

Matthews, Royal

lawyer, banker, state senator, was born Oct. 3, 1859, near Davenport, Iowa. For six years he practiced law in Davenport, Iowa; is now a successful banker of McPherson, Kan.; and in 1897 he was elected a member of the Kansas state senate as a republican.

Matthews, Stanley

soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, was born July 21, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected a senator in congress to fill a vacancy, serving in 1877- 79. In 1881 he was appointed. a justice of the supreme court of the United States.

He was the author of A Summary of the Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. He died March 22, 1889, in Washington, D. C.

Matthews, Washington

physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1843, in Ireland. He is a surgeon in the regular army, well known as an ethnologist.

Among his writings are included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; and Gentile Organization of the Navajo Indians.

Matthews, William

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1797 to 1799.

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM CHARLES, lawyer, author, was born April 2, 1859, in, Cornwall, England. In 1877 he moved to Colorado; has been clerk of the district court for two years; and is now a successful lawyer of Golden. He is the author of a work entitled Colorado Probate Practice.

Matthias, William

educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 19, 1836, in Medford, N. Y. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia and Mount Holly, N. J., and graduated from Harper's Hebrew institute. He first was a local preacher in the methodist episcopal church, and has since attained eminence as a clergyman in that denomination; and has filled pastorates in Michigan, New Jersey, and North Carolina. He has been superintendent of public schools in Michigan; and is a well known Hebrew scholar.