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Mattice, Burr

lawyer, jurist, was born in July, 1856, in Schoharie county, N.

Y. In 1889 he was elected district attorney of Otsego county, N. Y.; and in 1893 was elected county judge, a position which he still fills.

Mattison, Hiram

clergyman, controversialist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1811, in Norway, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of New York city, active as a controversialist, and the autnor of Bible Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times; Impending Crisis; Defense of American Methodism; and Popular Amusements. He died Nov. 24, 1868, in Jersey City, N. J.

Mattocks, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1776, in Hartford, Conn. He was judge of the supreme court of Vermont; was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1825, and from 1841 to 1843; and was governor of the state one year. He died Aug. 14, 1847, in Peacham, Vt.

Mattoon, Ebenezer

soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1755, in Amherst, Mass. In 1797 he was a presidential elector; was a major in the war of 1812; and sheriff of Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803, having succeeded L. Lyman, resigned; and in 1816 was chosen adjutant-general of militia.

He died Sept. 11, 1843, in Amherst, Mass.

Mattoon, Stephen

clergyman, educator, was born May 5, 1816, in Champion, N. Y. He completed his popular translation of the New Testament into Siamese in 1865, and it was printed that year complete at the Presbyterian mission press at Bangkok, Siam. He died Aug. 15, 1889, in Marion, Ohio.

Maturin, Edward

educator, author, poet, was born in 1812, in Ireland. He was an educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin; and the Jew of Grenada. He died May 25, 1881, in New York city.

Mauck, Joseph W

educator, college president, was born Aug. 17, 1852, in Cheshire, Ohio. For three years he was professor of Greek in the Hillsdale college, Michigan; and professor of Latin in the same college during 1881-83. Since 1891 he has been president of the state university of South Dakota.

Maul, Joseph

governor. He was acting governor of Delaware in 1846, having previously been elected lieutenantgovernor.

Maurice, James

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853. to 1855.

Maury, Abraham P

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Tennessee, from 1835 to 1839. He died July 22, 1848, in Williamson county, Tenn.

Maury, Ann

author, was born in September, 1803, in England. She was the author of Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. Sne died in January, 1876, in New York city.

Maury, Dabney Herndon

soldier, author, was born May 21, 1822, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was a confederate major-general in the civil war, and the author of Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; and Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars.