Matthews, Charles Philo – Maury, Ann
Matthews, Charles Philo
electrical engineer, physicist, author, was born Sept. 18, 1867, in Fort Covington, N.
Y. He is now the associate professor of electrical engineering in the Purdue university; has made a special study of light sources, and is a skilled photometrist. He is the author of several monographs on subjects of an electrical nature, and the joint author of two text-books.
Matthews, Claude
farmer, legislator, governor, was born Dec. 14, 1845, in Bethel, Ky. He attended the schools in Maysville, Ky., afterward taking the regular course in the Centre college, from which institution he graduated in 1867. In 1868 he married Martha R. Whitcomb, daughter of James Whitcomb, twice governor and United States senator from Indiana. The same year he moved to Indiana, settling on a farm near Clinton, which is still his home. In 1890 he was elected secretary of state; and at the close of his term was elected governor, and was inaugurated Jan. 9, 1893. He had previously served with distinction as a state representative in the Indiana state legislature. He died in September, 1898.
Matthews, Elizabeth Kinsey
educator, was born April 15, 1852, in Smithfield, Ohio. She has attained success in educational work as a training teacher, and was at one time principal of the Des Moines Training School for Teachers. For a period of ten years she taught in the first grade of the public schools of Des Moines, and for seven years was principal in the same schools of the training school. She has established a line of work known as pedagogy by correspondence, in which she has been eminently successful. She is prominent in the Des Moines Women's club; was one of the prime movers in the Woman's Round Table, and its first president.
Matthews, George
soldier, congressman, governor, was born in 1739, in Augusta county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1789 to 1791. He was afterward brigadier-general of Georgia militia; and was governor of Georgia in 1780. He died Aug. 30, 1812, in Augusta, Ga.
Matthews, Henry Mason
soldier, educator, governor, was born in 1834, in Greenbrier county, Va. He was for several years a professor in Allegheny college, Pennsylvania; and was a major of artillery in the confederate army during the civil war. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of West Virginia in 1871; was elected attorneygeneral of the state in 1872; and was elected governor in 1876, and served four years. He died April 29, 1884, in Lewisburg, W. Va.
Matthews, James Brander
author, was born Feb. 21, 1852, in New Orleans, La. Among his many writings the more important are, The Theatres of Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th Century; Margery's Lovers, a Comedy; The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of the Sea, and Other stories; A Family Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms; Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father's Son; Introduction to the Study of American Literature; The Royal Marine; and Tales of Fantasy and Fact.
Matthews, James Newton
physician, author, poet, was born in 1852, in Indiana. He is a physician and poet of Mason, Ill.; and the author of Tempe Vale, and Other Poems.
Matthews, John
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor. He was the first speaker of the South Carolina house of representatives of that state after the dissolution of the royal government in 1776. The same year he was associate justice of the supreme court; and from 1778 to 1782 he was a delegate to the continental congress. He was governor of South Carolina from 1782 to 1783; and in 1784, on the establishment of the court of equity, was appointed one of the judges. He died in November, 1802, in Charleston.
Matthews, John
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1772, in Guilford county, N. C. He became president of the Presbyterian Theological seminary at Hanover, Ind. He continued in this office seventeen years, and was for a part of that time vice-president of Hanover college. He was the author of Divine Purpose Displayed in the Works of Providence and Grace; and Influence of the Bible. He dieu May 19, 1848, in New Albany, Ind.
Matthews, Royal
lawyer, banker, state senator, was born Oct. 3, 1859, near Davenport, Iowa. For six years he practiced law in Davenport, Iowa; is now a successful banker of McPherson, Kan.; and in 1897 he was elected a member of the Kansas state senate as a republican.
Matthews, Stanley
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, author, was born July 21, 1824, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected a senator in congress to fill a vacancy, serving in 1877- 79. In 1881 he was appointed. a justice of the supreme court of the United States.
He was the author of A Summary of the Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. He died March 22, 1889, in Washington, D. C.
Matthews, Washington
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1843, in Ireland. He is a surgeon in the regular army, well known as an ethnologist.
Among his writings are included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; and Gentile Organization of the Navajo Indians.
Matthews, William
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1797 to 1799.
Matthews, William Charles
lawyer, author, was born April 2, 1859, in, Cornwall, England. In 1877 he moved to Colorado; has been clerk of the district court for two years; and is now a successful lawyer of Golden. He is the author of a work entitled Colorado Probate Practice.
Matthias, William
educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 19, 1836, in Medford, N. Y. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia and Mount Holly, N. J., and graduated from Harper's Hebrew institute. He first was a local preacher in the methodist episcopal church, and has since attained eminence as a clergyman in that denomination; and has filled pastorates in Michigan, New Jersey, and North Carolina. He has been superintendent of public schools in Michigan; and is a well known Hebrew scholar.
Mattice, Burr
lawyer, jurist, was born in July, 1856, in Schoharie county, N.
Y. In 1889 he was elected district attorney of Otsego county, N. Y.; and in 1893 was elected county judge, a position which he still fills.
Mattison, Hiram
clergyman, controversialist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1811, in Norway, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of New York city, active as a controversialist, and the autnor of Bible Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times; Impending Crisis; Defense of American Methodism; and Popular Amusements. He died Nov. 24, 1868, in Jersey City, N. J.
Mattocks, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1776, in Hartford, Conn. He was judge of the supreme court of Vermont; was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1825, and from 1841 to 1843; and was governor of the state one year. He died Aug. 14, 1847, in Peacham, Vt.
Mattoon, Ebenezer
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1755, in Amherst, Mass. In 1797 he was a presidential elector; was a major in the war of 1812; and sheriff of Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1801 to 1803, having succeeded L. Lyman, resigned; and in 1816 was chosen adjutant-general of militia.
He died Sept. 11, 1843, in Amherst, Mass.
Mattoon, Stephen
clergyman, educator, was born May 5, 1816, in Champion, N. Y. He completed his popular translation of the New Testament into Siamese in 1865, and it was printed that year complete at the Presbyterian mission press at Bangkok, Siam. He died Aug. 15, 1889, in Marion, Ohio.
Maturin, Edward
educator, author, poet, was born in 1812, in Ireland. He was an educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin; and the Jew of Grenada. He died May 25, 1881, in New York city.
Matz, Nicholas
bishop, was born April 6, 1850, in Alsace-Lorraine. In 1874 he was ordained priest and appointed assistant pastor of the cathedral of Denver; and he was transferred in 1877 to the pastorate of Georgetown, Col. After building a church, school, and hospital, which latter he placed under the charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph, he exchanged this parish for the new one of St. Anne's, East Denver. Here he labored with the same zeal until he was nominated in 1887 coadjutor of Bishop Machebeuf, of Colorado.
Mauck, Joseph W
educator, college president, was born Aug. 17, 1852, in Cheshire, Ohio. For three years he was professor of Greek in the Hillsdale college, Michigan; and professor of Latin in the same college during 1881-83. Since 1891 he has been president of the state university of South Dakota.
Maul, Joseph
governor. He was acting governor of Delaware in 1846, having previously been elected lieutenantgovernor.
Maurice, James
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853. to 1855.
Maury, Abraham P
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee, from 1835 to 1839. He died July 22, 1848, in Williamson county, Tenn.
Maury, Ann
author, was born in September, 1803, in England. She was the author of Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. Sne died in January, 1876, in New York city.