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Rh 1777, and left the service with the rank of major. He served several terms in the legislature after the Revolution, was state senator in 1795-6, from 1797 till 1816 was major-general of the 4th division, and in 1800 was elected to congress in place of Samuel Lvman, who had resigned, serving from 2 Feb., 1801, till 3 March, 1803. He was sheriff of Hamp- shire county twenty years, became adjutant-general of Massachusetts in 1816, and the next year com- manded the Ancient and honorable artillery. He became blind about this time, but served in the State constitutional convention of 1820. Gen. Mattoon was a scientific and practical farmer.

MATTOON, Stephen, clergyman, b. in Cham- pion, N. Y., 5 May, 1816; d. in' Marion, Ohio, 15 Aug., 1889. He was graduated at Princeton theo- logical seminary, and ordained an evangelist of the Presbyterian church in February, 1846, becoming missionary to Siam. He labored in that field till 1866, was pastor at Balston Spa, N. Y., in 1867-"9, and in 1870-'4 was president of Biddle university, Charlotte, N. C. After 1877 he was the professor of systematic theology in its theological depart- ment. He completed the translation of the Kew Testament into Siamese in 1865, and it was printed that year complete at the Presbyterian mission press at Bangkok, Siam. Parts had been printed earlier as they were finished. Union gave him the degree of D. D. in 1870.

MATTOS, Gregorio de (mat-tos), Brazilian scholar, b. in Bahia, 7 April, 1613 ; d. in Angola in 1696. His parents sent him to receive his scientific and literary training at Coimbra, where he began to acquire note as a satirical poet. After spending some time in the office of a lawyer in Lisbon, he was admitted to the bar. Plaving declined to ac- cept the appointment of judge in a political case, he lost the favor of the regent of Portugal, Pedro II., and returned to Brazil, where he found employ- ment as treasurer of the cathedral of Bahia. In 1681 he received minor orders, but, as he declined to use the religious habit when he was not in the performance of his duties, he was suspected of her- esy and declined to receive orders. In consequence he was dismissed from his post. In 1684 he mar- ried and opened a law-office in Bahia, but, as he had the enmity of the government and the clei'gy, he did not improve his situation. He had published several of his poetical compositions, which, though highly esteemed by intelligent persons, were much disliked by the political and ecclesiastical authori- ties on account of their bitter satire. The un- frien'dly feeling against him became so strong that at last he was banished to Angola, where he found protection, and finished the correction of his com- positions, but died soon afterward. His works in six volumes remained in manuscript till lately, when the " Instituto Geographico Brasileiro " took steps to publish them under its supervision. — His brother, Euzebio, Brazilian clergyman, b. in Bahia in 1629 ; d. there in 1690, became a Jesuit in 1644, but left the company and entered a convent of Carmelites, where he took the name of Euzebio da Soledade. He was an eloquent preacher, and pub- lished several works, including "Ecee Homo," " Espinhos, Purpura, Cordas, Canna e Chagas," " Titulo de homem," " Oragao f unebre feita a 14 de Julho de 1762 ao bispo D. Estevao dos Santos," " Sermao da Soledade," and '' Sermoes." He also composed several pieces of poetry.

MATURANA, Marcos (mah-too-rah'-nah), Chil- ian soldier, b. in San Fernando in 1802 ; d. in San- tiago in 1871. In 1818 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Husares de la muerte, and participated in the battle of Maipo, where he did good service. He was rewarded with a medal and a cadetship in the military academy, which he left in 1820 as sub- lieutenant and marched with the libei-ating army to Peru, participating in the siege of Callao till its capitulation. He also took part in the battle of Moquegua, but at the recapture of Callao by the Spaniards was taken prisoner and kept for a year in the casemates. In 1825 he was sent as com- mander of artillery in the expedition to the Archi- pelago of Chiloe, taking part in the capture of the fort of Agui, and the whole campaign till the peace of 1827. Under Gen. Joaquin Prieto he was again commander of artillery during the campaign of tho north in 1829-'30, which ended with the battle ot Lireay. In 1834 he had charge of the artillery of the department of Valparaiso, and in 1838-9 he took part in the campaign of Peru with the army of restoration, participated in the capture of Lima and the battles of Portada de Guias and Yungay, and in 1847 was promoted colonel. In 1854 he was made brigadier, and in 1862 was secretary of war and the navy. He was afterward appointed coun- cillor of state, and elected senator of the republic, which place he occupied till his death.

MATURIN, Edward, author, b. in Dublin, Ire- land, in 1812 ; d. in New York city, 25 May, 1881. He was descended from a Huguenot clergyman, who settled in Ireland after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and his father, Rev. Charles Rob- ert Maturin, curate of St. Peter's church, Dublin, was well known as a pulpit orator and novelist. The son was graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1832, and came to this country with letters of introduction from Thomas Moore, the poet, and other well-known literary men. He studied law under Charles O'Conor and elsewhere, was admit- ted to the bar, and, on recommendation of Prof. Charles Anthon, of Columbia, made professor of Greek in the College of South Carolina. He mar- ried in that state, but afterward returned to the north, and was an instructor in Greek and Latin in New York city for thirty consecutive years. He was selected in 1850 by the Bible union as one of their corps of revisers, the gospel of St. Mark being as- signed to him. Mr. Maturin was the author of " Montezuma, the Last of the Aztecs ; a Romance " (2 vols.. New York, 1845); "Benjamin, the Jew of Grenada: a Romance," a story of the fall of the Moslem empire in Spain (1848) ; " Eva, or the Isles of Life and Death " (2 vols., 1848) ; " Lyrics of Spain and Erin" (Boston, 1850); and "Bianca; a Tale of Erin and Italy " (New York, 1852).

MATZ, Nicholas, R. C. bishop, b. in Miinster, Alsace-Lorraine, 6 April, 1850. He entered the Petit seminaire of Finstingen in 1865, but did not complete his classical course. In 1868 he came to the United States and prepared for the priesthood in the College of St. Mary's of the West, Cincin- nati. In 1874 he was ordained priest and ap- pointed assistant pastor of the cathedral of Den- ver, and he was transferred in 1877 to the pastor- ate of Georgetown, Col. After building a church, school, and hospital, which latter he placed under the charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph, he ex- changed 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. He was consecrated in the diocesan cathedral on 28 Oct. Bishop Matz is an accomplished linguist, speaking French, Eng- lish, German. Italian, and Spanish.

MAUDUIT, Israel, English political writer, b. in Exeter, England, in 1708; d. 16 June, 1787. He was descended from a family of French Protestant refugees. His father, a dissenting minister, edu-