Maynard, George Willoughby – Mcbeth, Robert C
Maynard, George Willoughby
artist, was born March 5, 1843, in Washington, D. C. In 1884 he was awarded a medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Besides numerous portraits, his works include Vespers at Antwerp; and 1776, sent to the centennial exhibition of 1876; Water Carriers of Venice; Musical Memories; and Venetian Court.
Maynard, Horace
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1814, in Westborough, Mass. He held a number of local offices in his adopted state; was a presidential elector in 1852. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-second and forty-third congresses. In 1875 he was appointed minister resident to Turkey. in 1880 he was appointed postmaster-general, and served in that position until 1881. He died May 3, 1882, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Maynard, Isaac H
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, public official, was born April 9, 1838, in Bovina, N. Y. In 1875 he was elected a representative in the New York state legislature; was re-elected in 1876; and in 1877 was elected county judge and surrogate of Delaware county, and served six years. In 1884 he was appointed first deputy attorney-general of the state of New York, and served until 1885, when he was appointed second comptroller of the treasury of the United States.
Maynard, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was a resident of New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829. He was subsequently a member of the New York senate for four years; and was again a member of congress from 1841 to 1843.
He was judge of the supreme court of New York, and from 1850 was a judge of the court of appeals. He died March 24, 1850, in Auburn, N. Y.
Maynard, Samuel Taylor
botanist, horticulturist, and landscape architect, was born Dec. 6, 1844, in Hardwick, Mass. He has filled the chair of horticulture, landscape gardening and forestry in Massachusetts Agricultural college. Most of the ornamental features of the beautiful grounds of the Massachusetts Agricultural college have been due to his skill and care.
Mayo, Amory Dwight
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1823, in Warwick, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman very prominent since the civil war in educational matters in the southern states. He is the author of Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of the Capitol; Religion in Common Schools; and Talks with Teachers.
Mayo, John
legislator, was born July 17, 1737, in Virginia. He was a member of the house of burgesses from Chesterfield county, Va., in 1769, 1770, and 1771; and from Henrico county in 1775. In 1775-76 he was a member of the Virginia state convention. He died Feb. 15, 1780, in Richmond, Va.
Mayo, Robert
author, was born April 25, 1784, in Powhatan county, Va.
He was a writer long in the civil service at Washington; and the author of View of Ancient Geography and History; New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System; and The Treasury Department, its Origin and Operations.
His miscellaneous writings appear in a number of standard educational and scientific works. He died Oct. 31, 1864, in Washington, D. C.
Mayo, Robert M
soldier, congressman, was born April 28, 1836, in Westmoreland county, Va. He was a colonel in the confederate army during the civil war; was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1881; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-eighth congress. MAYO, MRS. SARAH CARTER [ED- GARTON], author, poet, was born March 17, 1819, in Shirley, Mass. She was the author of The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford; and several compilations of poetry and prose. She died July 9, 1848, in Gloucester, Mass.
Mayo, William Starbuck
physician, author, was born April 20, 1812, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. He was a novelist and physician of New York city, and the author of Kaloolah; The Berber; Néver Again; Flood and Field; and Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. He died in 1895.
Mayrant, William
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state during the years 1815 and 1816.
Mcadoo, Mrs. Mary Faith
[FLOYD], author, was born Sept. 8, 1832, in Tennessee. She is the author of The Nereid, a romance; and Antethusia.
Mcadoo, William
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1853, in Ireland. He was for some years counsel to a local board in Jersey City, N. J.; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1882. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Mcadoo, William Gibbs
soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, author, poet, was born April 4, 1820, near Knoxville, Tenn.
He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee; and the following year led a company from Tennessee in the Mexican war. In 1851 he was elected attorney general of the Knoxville judicial district of Tennessee. After the civil war he became county judge of Baldwin county, Ga.; and for nine years filled the chair of history and English literature. He is the author of Elementary Geology of Tennessee; and a volume of poems.
Mcafee, Charles Bingley
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky.
In 1896 he became judge of the criminal court of Green county, Mo. He was a candidate for congress in 1868 and again in 1872. was
Mcafee, Robert Breckinridge
soldier, lawyer, author, was born in February, 1784, in Mercer county, Ky. He lieutenant-governor of Kentucky from 1820 to 1824. He was the author of History of the Late War in the Western Country, in 1816. He died March 12, 1849, in Kentucky..
Mcaleer, William
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1838, in Ireland. He was unanimously elected to the Pennsylvania state senate in 1886 for a term of four years, and received the nomination for president pro tempore by the democratic members in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses; was not a candidate for the fifty-fourth congress; and was elected as a democrat to the fifty-fifth congress.
Mcalester, Miles Daniel
soldier, civil engineer, was born March 21, 1832, in New York. He served with distinction through the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 23, 1869, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mcallister, Archibald
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1814, in Dauphin county, Pa. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eignth congress. He died July 18, 1883.
McALLISTER, MATTHEW HALL
lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, author, was born Nov. 26, 1800, in Savannah, Ga. He was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia. He was for some years mayor of Savannah, Ga. He was a member of the legislature in 1835; and was a state senator for five years, and caused the establishment of the court of errors. In 1850 he moved his family to California; and from 1855 to 1862 was United States circuit judge of that state.
He was the author of a Eulogy on President Jackson, and a volume of legal opinions published by his son. He died Dec. 19, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal.
Mcallister, Robert
soldier, was born June 1, 1813, in Pennsylvania. He entered the civil war as colonel of the eleventh New Jersey volunteers; was brevetted brigadier-general in 1863; and 1864 attained the rank of major-general.
He died Feb. 23, 1891, in Belvidere, N. J.
Mcallister, Ward
lawyer, jurist, was born July 27, 1855, in Newport, R. I.
He was assistant district attorney for California in 1882-85; and then became judge of the United States court for the territory of Alaska.
Mcanally, David Rice
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 17, 1810, in Granger county, Tenn. He is a methodist clergyman, prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the southwest, who, besides a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of lives of methodist bishops.
Mcarthur, Duncan
soldier, legislator, congressman, governor, was born in 1772, in Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1805 he was a member of the Ohio legislature; in 1806 was appointed colonel, and in 1808 major-general of the state militia. In 1815 he was again a member of the legislature. In 1816 he was appointed commissioner to conclude treaties with the Indians. From 1817 to 1819 he was in the legislature; was speaker of the house in 1817; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1825. In 1830 he was chosen governor of the state, which position he held until 1833. He died April 28, 1839, near Chillicothe, Ohio.
Mcarthur, John
soldier, was born Nov. 17, 1826, in Erskine, Scotland. When the civil war began he joined the twelfth Illinois volunteers, with a company of which he was captain, and for his gallantry was promoted brigadier-general in 1862. He was postmaster in Chicago in 1873-77.
Mcauslan, John
merchant, was born Aug. 10, 1835, in Scotland. In 1866 he removed to Providence, R. I., and established the Boston Store, a mercantile house, which has been a success from the start.
Mcbeth, Robert C
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 4, 1838, in Harrison county, Ohio. He has served as judge of common pleas of Henry county, Mo. He was mayor of his city, and a delegate to the republican national convention in 1880, held in Chicago, where he was one of the three hundred and six for Grant.