Mason, Richard Barnes – Mather, Samuel
Mason, Richard Barnes
soldier, was born Jan. 16, 1797, in Fairfax county, Va. He was brevetted major in 1829 for ten years' faithful service in one grade, and brigadier-general in 1848 for meritorious conduct. He died July 25, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo.
Mason, Richard Sharp
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1795, in West Indies. In 1829 he was elected president of Hobart college of New York, having the previous year become rector of St.
Matthew's at that place. In 1835 he was called to be the head of a similar educational institution at Newark, Del. In 1840 he returned to North Carolina, having been called to the rectorship of Christ church, Raleigh, where he labored for thirty-five years until his death. He was the author of A Letter to the Bishop of North Carolina on the Subject of his Late Pastoral; and The Baptism of Infants Defended from the Objections of Anti-Pædobaptists. He died in 1875 in Raleigh, N. C.
Mason, Samson
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1843, and was afterward a member of the convention which framed the state constitution.
Mason, Thomson
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1733 in Virginia. In 1778 he was appointed a member of the first supreme court of Virginia. He died in 1785 in Virginia.
Mason, Stevens Thomson
soldier, legislator, United States senator, was born in 1760 in Chapawansic, Va. He was an officer in the revolutionary war, attaining to the rank of general. He was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, and a presidential elector in 1792. He was a senator of the United States from Virginia from 1794 to 1803; a member of the convention to frame the constitution of Virginia; and a member of the state legislature. He died May 10, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mason, Stevens Thomson
lawyer, governor, was born in 1811 in Loudoun county, Va. In 1831 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Michigan, and became acting governor. In 1835, United States senate Jan. 20, 1897, by a strict party vote. He took his seat March 4, 1897, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
Mason, William Powell
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 9, 1791, in Boston, Mass. He published Reports of Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit, from 1816 to 1830, in five volumes; and a second series in five volumes. He died in 1867.
Massie, Charles William
lawyer, jurist, was born July 11, 1849, in Adair county, Ky. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been actively engaged in the practice of law; has been county attorney of Palo Pinto county, Texas, and has served with distinction as special district and county judge of that county. In 1884-85 he was commissioner for Texas to the exposition at New Orleans.
Massie, Nathaniel
pioneer, soldier, state senator, was born Dec. 28, 1763, in Goochland county, Va. At the beginning of the nineteenth century he was one of the largest land-owners in Ohio.
He was active in the early Indian wars, was state senator, and for one term speaker, major-general of militia for several years, and a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1802. He died Nov. 13, 1813, in Paint Creek Falls, Ohio.
Masters, Josiah
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1763, in Woodbury, Conn. He was a prominent member of the New York state legislature in 1792, 1800, and 1801, when he was appointed associate judge of Rensselaer county. From 1805 to 1809 he was a representative in congress. In 1808 he was chosen first judge of the court of common pleas of the county, which office he held until his death. He died June 30, 1822.
Masters, Silas W
merchant, clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1868, in Perry county, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio; and is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan university. For many years he was engaged in mercantile business in which he was very successful. In 1890-91 he was business manager of the Franklin County Farmers' Alliance, a He is now successful Ohio newspaper. In 1835, when the territory became a state, he was unanimously elected its first governor, and at the end of his term was reelected. He died Jan. 4, 1843, in New York city.
Mason, William
legislator, congressman, was born in Connecticut. He served in the legislature of New York from Chenango county from 1820 to 1822; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837.
Mason, William
pianist, composer, was born Jan. 24, 1829, in Boston, Mass.
In 1855-56 he established, in connection with Theodore Thomas, a series of clas- These concerts became sical soirees. known as the Mason and Thomas soirees, which were continued until 1868. He has published about forty compositions for the piano-forte, and is the author of two piano-forte methods, and also a system of Piano-forte Technics.
Mason, William E
lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born July 7, 1850, in Franklinville, N.
Y. Since 1872 he has maintained a law office in Chicago, Ill. He was elected to the general assembly in 1879, and to the state : senate in 1881. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses and defeated for the fifty-second in the landslide of 1892. He was elected to the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Piketon, Ohio.
Mastin, Claudius Henry
surgeon, was born June 4, 1826, in Huntsville, Ala.
In 1849 he graduated from the medical department at the university of Pennsylvania; and the following year went abroad, studying in Edinborough, Paris and London. On his return he settled in Mobile, Ala., where he has since practiced, chiefly as a surgeon. During the civil war he served as a surgeon in the confederate army. In 1883 he was vice-president of the American Surgical association. He has invented several surgical instruments, and contributed largely to medical journals.
Masury, John W
manufacturer, inventor, was born Jan. 1, 1820, in Salem, Mass. He established a large paint store in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is known as Masury and Son. He was the inventor of a mill for grinding colors in quick drying varnish to an impalpable fineness.
Mather, Cotton
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 12, 1663, in Boston, Mass. Of his many works his Magnalia Christi Americana is the most noted. His connection with the Salem witchcraft is said to be more the fault of the age than the man, as his philanthropy was rare for that age. He was pastor of the North church in 1683-1728, and his father's colleague for the greater part of that period. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armor of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; and Death Made Easy and Happy. He died Feb. 13, 1728.
Mather, Eleazer
clergyman, was born May 13, 1637, in Dorchester, Mass.
He was ordained minister over the first church that was organized in Northampton, Mass., in 1658, and retained that pastorate till his death. He died July 24, 1669, in Northampton, Mass.
Mather, Fred
pisciculturist, author, was born in August, 1833, in Albany, N. Y.
He is a pisciculturist of note, and the author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.
Mather, Frederic Gregory
journalist, was born Aug. 11, 1844, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he became managing editor of the Times at Binghamton, N. Y., and in 1875 editor-in-chief of the Republican in the same city, but resigned the place in 1879. He wrote editorials for the Albany Evening Journal in 1880.
Mather, Increase
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 21, 1639, in Dorchester, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North church, and president of Harvard college in 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces.
He died Aug. 23, 1723, in Dorchester, Mass.
Mather, Margaret
actress, was born in 1862 in Canada. She opened her career in 1882 as Juliet, at McVicker's theater, Chicago, and her success was instantaneous. She died in 1898.
Mather, Moses
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1719, in Lyme, Conn.
He was a congregational clergyman of Darien, Conn., from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. He was the author of Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; and Election Sermons.
He died Sept. 21, 1806, in Darien, Conn.
Mather, Richard
clergyman, author, was born in 1596 in England. He was a puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester 1636-69. He was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. He died April 22, 1669, in Dorchester, Mass.
Mather, Richard Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1835, in Binghamton, N. Y. He secured for Amherst college the finest collection of plaster casts in the United States. He has edited Greek text-books for use in colleges, which have passed through several editions. The principal ones are Herodotus; selections from Thucydides, the Electra of Sophocles; abstract of lectures upon sculpture; and the Prometheus Bound of Æschylus.
Mather, Samuel
clergyman, author, was born July 5, 1650, in Dorchester, Mass. He was one of the trustees of Yale from 1700 till 1724, and published several religious books, among them The Dead Faith; and On Renouncing Our Righteousness.