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Rh or not.&rdquo; During the first session he volunteered as counsel for Drayton and Sayres, who were indicted for stealing seventy-six slaves in the District of Columbia, and at the trial was engaged for twenty-one successive days in their defence. In 1850 he was engaged in a controversy with Daniel Webster in regard to the extension of slavery and the fugitive-slave law. Mann was defeated by a single vote at the ensuing nominating convention by Mr. Webster's supporters; but, on appealing to the people as an independent anti-slavery candidate, he was re-elected, serving from April, 1848, till March, 1853. In September, 1852, he was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by the Free-soil party, and the same day was chosen president of Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Failing in the election for governor, he accepted the presidency of the college, in which he continued until his death. He carried that institution through pecuniary and other difficulties, and satisfied himself of the practicality of co-education. His death was hastened by his untiring labors in his office. He published, besides his annual reports, his lectures on education, and his voluminous controversial writings, &ldquo;A Few Thoughts for a Young Man&rdquo; (Boston, 1850); &ldquo;Slavery: Letters and Speeches&rdquo; (1851); &ldquo;Powers and Duties of Woman&rdquo; (1853); and &ldquo;Sermons&rdquo; (1861). See &ldquo;Life of Horace Mann,&rdquo; by his wife (1865); &ldquo;Life and Complete Works of Horace Mann&rdquo; (2 vols., Cambridge, 1869); and &ldquo;Thoughts selected from the Writings of Horace Mann&rdquo; (1869). His lectures on education were translated into French by Eugene de Guer, under the title of &ldquo;De l'importance de l'éducation dans une république,&rdquo; with a preface and biographical sketch by Edouard R. L. Laboulaye (Paris, 1873). &mdash; His second wife, Mary Tyler , author, b. in Cambridgeport, Mass., 16 Nov., 1806; d. in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 11 Feb., 1887, was a daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Peabody. She resided in Salem during her youth, and afterward lived for the most part in or near Boston. During her husband's life she shared in all his benevolent and educational work, and her familiarity with modern languages enabled her to assist him greatly in his studies of foreign reforms. Her writings, especially those on the kindergarten system, with her sister, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, are distinguished for vigor of thought and felicity of expression. She published &ldquo;Flower People&rdquo; (1838); &ldquo;Christianity in the Kitchen, a Physiological Cook-Book&rdquo; (Boston, 1857); &ldquo;Culture in Infancy,&rdquo; with Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1863); &ldquo;Life of Horace Mann&rdquo; (1865); and &ldquo;Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba,&rdquo; published after her death (1887).

MANN, James, physician, b. in Wrentham, Mass., 22 July, 1759 ; d. on Governor's island, N. Y., 7 Nov., 1832. He was graduated at Harvard in 1776, studied medicine, and served as surgeon for three years in the Revolutionary army, and visited Shays's camp during the rebellion of 1786-'7, in order to report to Gen. William Shepard. He subsequently settled in New York, and practised there till the beginning of the war of 1812, when he joined the U. S. army as hospital surgeon, and was afterward in charge of the medical department on the north- ern frontier. After the peace he was retained as post-surgeon, and became assistant surgeon in 1831. He was a member of the Society of the Cincin- nati. Yale gave him the degree of A. M. in 1782, and Brown the same in 1788, and he was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He published two medical treatises (New York, 1804) that gained prizes, and " Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1813-14 (New York, 1816).

MANN, William Benson, lawyer, b. in Bur- lington county, N. J., 27 Oct., 1816. He was edu- cated under his father. Rev. William Mann, who for many years was at the head of a private school in Philadelphia, read law, and in 1838 was ad- mitted to the bar. He early engaged in politics, and in 1851-'6 was assistant district attorney of Philadelphia. He was then nominated for the dis- trict attorneyship against Lewis C. Cassidy. The latter was returned, but Mr. Mann contested the election and secured the office, which he retained by successive re-elections until 1868 ; and he was again elected in 1871 for a further term of 'three years. His abilities as a prosecuting officer were of the highest order, and won for him a wide reputa- tion. For many years Mr. Mann was a prominent figure in Pennsylvania polities. As a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1860, he op- posed Simon Cameron as a presidential candidate, and did much to bring about the nomination of Mr. Lincoln. His services as a public speaker, dur- ing the war and since, have been in great demand. In 1861 he oi'ganized the 2d regiment of Pennsyl- vania reserves, which he commanded from April until November of that year. Since 1874 he has been prothonotary of Philadelphia.

MANN, William Julius, theologian, b. in Stuttgart, Geruutny, 39 May, 1819 ; d. in Boston, 20 June, 1892. He was graduated at Stuttgart, studied theology at the University of Tubingen, and was ordained to the Lutheran ministry. He came to this country in 1845 with Dr. Philip Schaff, whose intimate friend lie had been for years. In 1850 he became assistant pastor of St. Michael's and Zion's congregation in Philadelphia, and from 1863 till 1884 he was pastor, retiring in the latter year, as pastor emeritus, in order to devote liis time to literary labors. He had been professor of Hebrew ethics and symbolics in the Lutheran theological seminary at Philadelphia since its establishment in 1864. He received the honorary degree of D. D. from Pennsylvania college in 1857. Dr. Mann was a ready writer and an eloquent pulpit orator. He enjoyed a national reputation as an oriental scholar, especially in Hebrew. He was the chairman of the committee of the ministerium of Pennsylvania in 1866 that reported favorably for the organization of the general council, and in the same year, with others, he issued the fraternal address that called all conservative Lutheran synods to Reading for the purpose of organizing the new body. He is the author of " Plea for the Augsbui'g Confession " (Philadelphia, 1856); "Lutheranism in America" (1857): "Luther's Small Catechism Explained," with Dr. Gottlob F. Krotel (1863); an abridg- ment of Schmid's " System of Christian Ethics " (1873) ; " Vergangene Tagen, aus den Zeiten Miih- lenbergs " (Allentown, 1879) ; " The Lutheran Church and its Confessions " (1880) ; " Heilsbot- schaft," a volume of sermons (Philadelphia, 1881); " Das Buch der Biicher und seine Geschichte " (Reading, 1885) ; and " Life and Times of Henry Melehior Muhlenberg" (Philadelphia, 1887). He had also assisted in editing, with notes, " Halle'sche Nachrichten." He wrote the editorials of " Herold und Zeitschrift," a German weekly published at Allentown, and frequent articles for periodicals.

'''MANNING. Daniel''', secretary of the treasury, b. in Albany, N. Y.. 16 May, 1831 ; d. there, 24 Dec, 1887. He was educated in the public schools until his twelfth year, when he entered the office of the Albany "Argus," rose through the various grades to manager, and in 1873 became president of the company. He had also become director in several savings and city banks, was vice-president