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Mayer, Francis Blackwell

artist, was born Dec. 27, 1827, in Baltimore, Md. He received his education in the university of Maryland; has filled positions of professorship and librarian; has been president of the Improvement association; and vice-president of the Historical society. He exhibited at the Paris salon, and was given a medal at Philadelphia in 1876 for his Continentals, and his Attic Philosophers. He has made a special study of Indian types and character in the west. Others of his works of art are Founders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Planting of the Colony of Maryland, which latter painting was purchased by the state of Maryland.