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Maxwell, William Henry – May, William L

Maxwell, William Henry

educator, journalist, author, was born March 5, 1852, in Ireland. In 1882 he was elected associate superintendent of public instruction of the city of Brooklyn, and in 1887 was advanced to the post of superintendent. He is the author of First Book in English: Introductory Lessons in English Grammar; and Advance Lessons in English Grammar.

May, Albert Quitman

was born June 17, 1858, in Simpson county, Miss. He served one term as sheriff of his county, and declined the re-election in 1881. During 1884-94 he was circuit and chancery clerk of his county; and in 1894 his name was put forward as a member for congress. In 1895 he was appointed state treasurer of Mississippi.

May, Caroline

author, poet, was born in 1820, in England. She is a writer of New York city, and the author of American Female Poets; The Woodbine, a Holiday Gift; Poems; Hymns on the Collects; and Lays of Memory and Affection.

May, Mrs. Celeste

lecturer, poet, was born Oct. 20, 1850, in Lee county, Iowa. She is an ardent advocate of temperance, in the cause of which she has lectured extensively throughout the United States. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Sounds of the Prairie.

May, Edward Harrison

soldier, artist, was born in 1824, in England. His works include The Dying Brigand (in the Philadelphia academy of fine arts); Christopher Columbus signing his Will in Prison; Lady Jane Grey presenting her Tablets to the Governor of the Tower; and Franklin playing at Chess with Lady Howe. He died May 17, 1887, in Paris, France.

May, Henry

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1816, in Washington, D.

C. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1853 to 1855; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.

He died Sept. 25, 1863, in Baltimore, Md.

May, John Wilder

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 29, 1819, in Attleborough, Mass. He was a jurist of Boston, and the author of The Law of Insurance; Law of Crimes; and Criminal Law. He died Jan. 11, 1883, in Boston, Mass.

May, Joseph Lee

journalist, poet, was born June 11, 1867, in Rutherfordton, N. C. He is a son of the late Rev. Daniel May, an eminent homilist in the North Carolina conference of the methodist episcopal church, south. He is a poet of high order, a graceful prose writer, and a successful journalist. For many years he was editor-in-chief of the Dixie Telegrapher of Atlanta, Ga.

May, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born in 1810, in Massachusetts. He is a retired unitarian clergyman of Leicester, Mass.; of prominence in the anti-slavery movement; and the author of The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims.

May, Samuel Joseph

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 12, 1797, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Syracuse prominent in the anti-slavery cause, and also in educational reforms.

He was the author of Education of the Faculties; Revival of Education; and Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict. He died July 1, 1871, in Syracuse, N. Y.

May, William Augustus

musician, composer, was born Dec. 9, 1850, n Lackawaxen, Pa. He is a successful teacher and director of choirs and classes in Montclair, N. J.; and the author of a number of songs and hymns.

May, William L

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1835 to 1839.