Maury, Dabney Herndon – May, Albert Quitman
Maury, Dabney Herndon
soldier, author, was born May 21, 1822, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was a confederate major-general in the civil war, and the author of Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; and Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars.
Maury, Francis Fontaine
surgeon, journalist, was born Aug. 9, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. For two years he edited the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, and he published numerous reports of medical and surgical He was a surgeon to Jefferson Medical College hospital, and the Philadelphia hospital, and during the civil war had charge for a time of an army hospital.
He died June 4, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. cases.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
scientist, author, was born Jan. 14, 1806, in Virginia. He was a once famous scientist, for many years in charge of the hydrographical office at Washington, as well as of the naval observatory. During the civil war he entered the confederate service, and in 1868-73 was a professor in the Virginia Military institute at Lexington.
He was the author of Treatise on Navigation; Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical Geography for Schools; and The World We Live In. He died Feb. 1, 1873, in Lexington, Va.
Maury, Mrs. Sarah Mytton
(HUGHES), author, was born Nov. 1, 1808, in England. She was the author of Etchings from the Caracci; The English Woman in America: The Statesmen of America; and Progress of the Catholic Church in America. She died in October, 1849, in Virginia.
Maute, Andrew
journalist, legislator, was born June 28, 1844, in France. He learned the printing business, and became foreman of the Nevada state printing office. He has been the publisher of the Carson Independent; editor and manager of the Austin Reveille; and is now the editor and proprietor of the Belmont Courier.
For eight years he served with distinction as a state senator in the Nevada legislature, and has taken an active par in the legislation of Nevada. He is a member of the board of honorary visitors of the Nevada State university, and takes an active part in public affairs.
Maverick, Peter
engraver, was born Oct. 22, 1780, in New York city.
Among his line engravings are portraits of Henry Clay; Bishop Benjamin Moore, and Andrew Jackson. He died June 7, 1831, in New York city.
Maxcy, Jonathan
educator, college president, was born Sept. 2, 1768, in Attleborough, Mass. In 1792 he became president of Brown college. In 1802 he was elected to the presidency of Union college.
In 1804 he was chosen first president of South Carolina college, which had been just established at Columbia. He died June 4, 1820, in Columbia, s. C.
Maxcy, Virgil
lawyer, legislator, was born about 1785, in Attleborough, Mass. He was a member of both houses of the Maryland legislature; solicitor of the United States treasury, and charge d'affaires to Belgium. He published Compilation of the Laws of Maryland from 1692 to 1809, in four volumes; Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He was accidentally killed Feb. 28, 1844.
Maxey, Samuel Bell
soldier, lawyer, state senator, United States senator, was born March 30, 1825, in Monroe county, Ky. He moved to Texas in 1857, and in 1861 was elected state senator for four years, but declined to serve, and raised the ninth Texas infantry for the confederate service, and was made colonel. He was brigadier-general in 1862, major-general in 1864; commanded the district of the Indian territory from 1863 to the close of the war, and was also superintendent of Indian affairs. In 1874 he was elected United States senator from Texas; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1887.
Maxson, Eva E
educator, poet, was born in New Lebanon, N. Y. She began her literary career before the civil war, and is still actively engaged in the work, although the greater part of her time is devoted to teaching.
She has contributed both prose and verse to current literature, and several of her songs have been set to music. Her poems have been given a place in Poets of America, Poets and Poetry of Iowa, and various other standard collections.
Maxson, Frederick
musician, composer, was born June 13, 1862, in Beverly, N. J. Since 1884 he has been organist and choir master of the Central congregational church of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of a considerable number of church services.
Maxwell, Augustus Emmett
railroad president, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1820, in Elberton, Ga. In 1847 he was elected to the assembly of Florida; was secretary of state in 1848; a state senator in 1849; and was a member of congress from 1853 to 1857. In 1866 he was appointed president of the Pensacola and Montgomery railroad.
Maxwell, George C
congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813.
Maxwell, George Troup
soldier, physician, author, was born Aug. 6, 1827, in Bryan county, Ga. In 1848 he graduated from the medical department of the university of the city of New York.
Until 1857 he practiced medicine in Tallahassee, Fla., when he was appointed surgeon of the marine hospital at Key West. In 1860 he became professor of obstetrics in the Oglethorpe Medical college of Savannah; but a year later he enlisted as a private in the first Florida regiment, and was subsequently promoted to brigadier-general. In 1866 he was elected to the Florida state legislature; and since 1871 has made Middletown, Del., his home. He claims to have invented the laryngoscope independently several months before Professor Czermach announced his discovery. He has published pamphlets on Malarial, Hæmoglobinuria; The Negro Problem; and An Address on Municipal Hygiene. He is a member of the leading medical bodies of America and Europe.
Maxwell, Hugh
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1787, in Scotland. He was made assistant judge-advocate general in the United States army in 1814; and in 1819 was elected district attorney for New York county, serving by successive reelections until 1829. From 1849 till 1852 he was collector of the port of New York.
He died March 31, 1873, in New York city.
Maxwell, J. P. B
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1805, in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843.
He died Nov. 14, 1845, in Belvidere, N. J.
Maxwell, Lewis
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1833.
Maxwell, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born May 20, 1826, in Syracuse, N. Y. He was elected a representative from Cass county to the Nebraska territorial legislature; was elected to the legislature in 1864, and reelected in 1865. He assisted in framing the constitution of 1866; and was elected to the first state legislature in 1866. He organized the First National bank of Plattsmouth about 1870. He was elected judge of the supreme court as a republican in 1872 for a term of six years. He located in Fremont in 1873; and was elected in 1875 a member of the third constitutional convention. He was elected the same year judge of the supreme court under the new constitution, and was reelected in 1881 and 1887. He is the author of a Digest of Nebraska Reports; Practice in Justice Courts; Pleading and Practice; Criminal Procedure, and Code Pleadings. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a fusionist.
Maxwell, Sidney Denise
soldier, journalist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1831, in Centreville, Ohio. Since 1871 he has been superintendent of the Cincinnati chamber of commerce, and is now its statistician. In addition to pamphlets and the annual reports of the chamber of commerce, he has published The Suburbs of Cincinnati; and The Manufactures of Cincinnati and their Relations to the F'uture Progress of the City.
Maxwell, Thomas
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.
Maxwell, Thompson
soldier. He was a member of the Boston tea party in 1773; and helped to frame and adopt the Massachusetts constitution. He also served in the war of 1812. He died in 1835.
Maxwell, William
soldier, was born in Ireland. In 1775 he represented Sussex county in the New Jersey provincial congress. When the revolutionary war broke out he was made colonel of the second New Jersey regiment; and in 1776 attained the rank of brigadier-general.
He died Nov. 12, 1798, in Sussex county, N. J.
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.