Martin, Robert Moody – Mason, Mrs. Caroline Ather-
Martin, Robert Moody
journalist, was born Oct. 9, 1870, in Marion, S. C. He is the editor and owner of The Liberty County Herald of Hinesville, Ga.; and a general writer on political economy. He is prominently identified with the state democratic executive committee; and an active member of several fraternal. orders.
Martin, Robert N
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1798, in Cambridge, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1827. He died July 20, 1870, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Martin, S. A
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 1, 1853, in Cannonsburg, Pa. He is an eminent clergyman and educator; and the president of Wilson college of Chambersburg, Pa.
Martin, S. Wesley
musician, composer, was born Jan. 20, 1839, in Plainfield, Ill. For many years he was employed in conducting musical conventions. He now resides in San Jose, Cal.; and is the author of one hundred sheet music songs; and various music books.
Martin, Thomas Staples
was born July 29, 1847, in Scottsville, Va.
Though not a regularly enlisted soldier, a considerable part of the time while he was a cadet at the Virginia Military institute was spent in the military service of the confederate states with the battalion of cadets of the institute. Since 1869 he has devoted himself closely to law; for a number of years has been a member of the board of visitors of the Miller Manual Labor school of Albemarle county; and a member of the board of visitors of the university of Virginia. In 1893 he was elected a senator from Virginia for the term commencing March 4, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Martin, William Alexander Parsons
clergyman, missionary, college president, author, was born April 10, 1827, in Livonia, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen college, Pekin. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he has published The Chinese: Their Education, Philosophy and Letters.
Martin, William Dobbin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1789, in Martintown, S. C. He was a judge of the court of common pleas; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1827 to 1833. He died Nov. 16, 1833, in Charleston, S. C.
Martin, William Harrison
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1822, in Twiggs county, Ga. He was elected to the Texas state senate in 1853, and re-elected in 1855. In 1861 he raised a company for the confederate army, and was mustered into the fourth Texas regiment; was assigned to Lee's army, and participated in all the battles of that army till the surrender in April, 1865. He returned to Athens, and resumed the practice of law.
In 1872 he was elected district attorney; and at the expiration of his term of office he retired to his farm and ranch, which he was running when elected to the fiftieth congress and re-elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a democrat.
Martin, William I
soldier, lawyer.
During the civil war he was in the army of northern Virginia; was afterward major-general in the army of the Tennessee; and now practices law in Vicksburg, Miss.
Martin, William Logan
lawyer, was born Nov. 3, 1850, in Madison county, Ala. In 1889 he was elected attorney-general of the state of Alabama.
Martindale, Elijah B
journalist, jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1828, in Wayne county, Ind. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the common pleas court for the district composed of the counties of Henry, Madison, Hancock, Rush, and Decatur, Ind. In 1876 he purchased the Indianapolis Journal, the leading republican paper of the state, and assumed its active control.
Martindale, Henry Clifton
congressman, was born May 6, 1780, in Berkshire county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1835.
He died April 22, 1860, in Sandy Hill, N. Y.
Martindale, John Henry
soldier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1815, in Sandy Hill, N. Y. In 1861 he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers. He subsequently became attorney-general of New York state. He died Dec. 13, 1881, in France.
Martinitz, Stanislaus Von
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 8, 1845, in Bohemia. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Goethen. In 1869 he emigrated to America, and began the practice of medicine.
He subsequently returned to Bohemia and attended the clinics of the university of Prague; and finally took a course of medicine in the Chicago Medical college. In 1893 he was appointed member of the advisory council of the medical department at the World's congress of the World's Columbian exposition. He is the author of The Soul's Functions Within the Human Body, or The Mind's Functions Within the Nervous System of Man, a philosophy of intervening sciences. He has attained success in his profession at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Martyn, Eliza Lamb
poet, was born July 8, 1845, in Charlton, Mass. She is the author of a number of poems.
Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne
[SMITH], author, was born Aug. 15, 1805, in Hopkinton, N. H. She was a writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York city.
Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; and Lady Alice Lisle. She died Nov. 22, 1879, in New York city.
Martyn, William Carlos
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 15, 1841, in New York city. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city; and the author of History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; and Lives of John Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge.
Marvin, Dudley
lawyer, congressman, was born in May, 1786, in Lyme, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1829. In 1844 he moved to Ripley; and was again elected to congress, serving from 1847 to 1849. He died June 25, 1856, in Ripley, N. Y.
Marvin, Enoch Mather
bishop, author, was born June 12, 1823, in Warren county, Mo. He was a bishop of the methodist church south; and the author of The Work of Christ; Sermons; and To the East by Way of the West. He died Dec. 3, 1887, in St. Louis, Mo.
Marvin, Francis
manufacturer, • congressman, was born March 8, 1828, in New York city. He was educated at private schools in that city; entered upon a commercial career, and has been engaged in the promotion, construction, and operation of railways, water supply companies, bridges, the manufacture of illuminating gas, and in banking; and has filled many local offices. He was elected to the fifty-third congress from New York.
Marvin, James M
congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1809, in Ballston, N. Y.
In 1846 he was elected to the house of assembly; and in 1862 was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyeighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican.
Marvin, Jonathan Jones
soldier, lawyer, poet, was born Sept. 23, 1822, in Hammond, N. Y. He settled in Falls City, Neb.; was prosecuting attorney of his county; was postmaster for three years; and for fifteen years was a justice of the peace. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, many of which have been incorporated into standard collections.
Marvin, Richard P
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. He served in the assembly of that state from Chautauqua county in 1836; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1841. In 1855 he was elected a judge of the supreme court of that state.
Marvin, William
lawyer, jurist, was a citizen of Florida. He was appointed United States judge for the southern district of that state.
Maryott, E. Edgar
physician, author, was born Sept. 29, 1845, in North Stonington, Mass. He is the author of The New Medical World, a popular work on hygiene and progressive medicine.
Mash, Samuel Lewis
lawyer, was born Nov. 15, 1868, in Vicksburg, Miss.
When a youth he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in which city his father was a blacksmith. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his profession with success. He was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention in 1892; was the author of the civil rights bill of Iowa; and was instrumental in having it become a law in 1893.
Mason, Amistead Thomson
soldier, United States senator, was born in 1787 in Loudoun county, Va. He was a colonel in the war of 1812; and was a United States senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817. He was killed in a duel Feb. 6, 1819, in Bladensburg, D. C.
Mason, Mrs. Caroline Ather-
TON [BRIGGS], author, poet, was born July 27, 1823, in Marblehead, Mass. She was a verse-writer of Fitchburg, Mass., whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. She was the author of Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; and Rose Hamilan, a tale. She died in