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Maverick, Peter – Maxwell, William

Maverick, Peter

engraver, was born Oct. 22, 1780, in New York city.

Among his line engravings are portraits of Henry Clay; Bishop Benjamin Moore, and Andrew Jackson. He died June 7, 1831, in New York city.

Maxcy, Jonathan

educator, college president, was born Sept. 2, 1768, in Attleborough, Mass. In 1792 he became president of Brown college. In 1802 he was elected to the presidency of Union college.

In 1804 he was chosen first president of South Carolina college, which had been just established at Columbia. He died June 4, 1820, in Columbia, s. C.

Maxcy, Virgil

lawyer, legislator, was born about 1785, in Attleborough, Mass. He was a member of both houses of the Maryland legislature; solicitor of the United States treasury, and charge d'affaires to Belgium. He published Compilation of the Laws of Maryland from 1692 to 1809, in four volumes; Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was accidentally killed Feb. 28, 1844.

Maxson, Eva E

educator, poet, was born in New Lebanon, N. Y. She began her literary career before the civil war, and is still actively engaged in the work, although the greater part of her time is devoted to teaching.

She has contributed both prose and verse to current literature, and several of her songs have been set to music. Her poems have been given a place in Poets of America, Poets and Poetry of Iowa, and various other standard collections.

Maxwell, George C

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813.

Maxwell, Hugh

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1787, in Scotland. He was made assistant judge-advocate general in the United States army in 1814; and in 1819 was elected district attorney for New York county, serving by successive reelections until 1829. From 1849 till 1852 he was collector of the port of New York.

He died March 31, 1873, in New York city.

Maxwell, J. P. B

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1805, in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843.

He died Nov. 14, 1845, in Belvidere, N. J.

Maxwell, Lewis

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1833.

Maxwell, Sidney Denise

soldier, journalist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1831, in Centreville, Ohio. Since 1871 he has been superintendent of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce, and is now its statistician. In addition to pamphlets and the annual reports of the chamber of commerce, he has published The Suburbs of Cincinnati; and The Manufactures of Cincinnati and their Relations to the F'uture Progress of the City.

Maxwell, Thomas

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.

Maxwell, Thompson

soldier. He was a member of the Boston tea party in 1773; and helped to frame and adopt the Massachusetts constitution. He also served in the war of 1812. He died in 1835.

Maxwell, William

soldier, was born in Ireland. In 1775 he represented Sussex county in the New Jersey provincial congress. When the revolutionary war broke out he was made colonel of the second New Jersey regiment; and in 1776 attained the rank of brigadier-general.

He died Nov. 12, 1798, in Sussex county, N. J.