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Rh, entered the army in 1836 as 2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons, did efficient service in the Semi- nole war, and captured and brought to the camp as a prisoner. King Philip, the principal chief of that nation. He was promoted captain in 1846, and served under Gen. Zachary Taylor as his chief of cavalry throughout the Mexican war, command- ing the cavalry at the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Buena Vista. In the second-named engagement he turned the fortunes of the day by charging a battery that was intrenched and protected by an earthen breastwork that com- manded the only road through the almost impene- trable chaparral on either side, and captured Gen. La Vega, who commanded the battery. For his services and for gallantry, he was brevetted major for Palo Alto, lieutenant-colonel for Resaca de la Palma, and colonel for Buena Vista.. He resigned in 1860, removed to New York city, and became vice-president of the Eighth avenue railroad.

MAY, John Wilder, lawyer, b. in Attleborough, Mass., 29 Jan., 1819; d. in Boston, Mass., 11 Jan., 1883. His father, Lemuel, was a representative to the general court of Massachusetts, and a member of the executive council. The son was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1846, and, after spending several years in farming, read law, and in 1851 was admitted to the Norfolk, Mass., bar. He was subsequently solicitor for Roxbury for several years, served in the legislature in 1867, and was elected district attorney for Suffolk county in the same year. After six years he became judge of the municipal court of Boston. He published " The Law of Insurance as applied to Fire, Life, Accident, Guarantee, and other Non-Maritime Risks" (Bos- ton, 1874-'82) ; " The Law of Crimes " (1881) ; and edited Angell on " Limitations " (1876) ; Greenleaf on " Evidence " (1876) ; and Stephens's " Digest of the Law of Evidence " (1877).

MAY, Samuel Joseph, reformer, b. in Boston, Mass., 12 Sept., 1797 ; d. in Syracuse, N. Y., 1 July, 1871. He was graduated at Harvard in 1817, stud- ied divinity at Cambridge, and in 1822 became pastor of a Unitarian church at Brooklyn, N. Y. He was early interested in the anti-slavery cause, wrote and preached on the subject, and in 1830 was mobbed and burned in effigy at Syracuse for advo- cating immediate emancipation. He was a mem- ber of the first New England anti-slavery society in 1832, and, when Prudence Crandall {q. v.) was proscribed and persecuted for admitting colored girls to her school in Canterbury, Conn., he was her ardent champion. He was also a member of the Philadelphia convention of 1833 that formed the American anti-slavery society, and signed the •' Dec- laration of Sentiments." of which William Lloyd Garrison was the author. In 1835 he became the general agent of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society, for which, by a union of gentleness and courage, he was peculiarly fitted, and in this capaci- ty he lectured and travelled extensively. He was pastor of the Unitarian church at South Scituate, Mass., in 1836-'42, and became at the latter date, at the solicitation of Horace Mann, principal of the Girls' normal school at Lexington, Mass. He returned to the pulpit in 1845, and from that date till three years previous to his death was pastor of the Unitarian society in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. May was active in all charitable and educational enter- prises, and did much to increase the efficiency of the public-school system in Syracuse. He pub- lished '* Education of the Faculties " (Boston, 1846) ; " Revival of Education " (Syracuse, N. Y., 1855) ; and "Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict " (Boston, 1868). See "Memoir of Samuel Joseph May." edited by George B. Emerson, Samuel May, and Thomas J. Mumford (Boston, 1873).

MAY, Samuel Passuiore, Canadian educator, b. in Truro, Cornwall, England, in 1828. He was educated privately, and on arriving at Quebec in 1853 was engaged by the literary and historical society of that city to rearrange their museum and to prepare a scientific catalogue. He soon after- ward became connected with the education depart- ment of Upper Canada, had charge of the educa- tional exhibit at Kingston in 1856. and in 1857 was appointed to establish meteorological observatories at senior county grammar-schools, and to give in- structions in the use of instruments. He was graduated as a physician at Victoria college in 1863, and was for a time curator of its museum and lecturer on pharmacy and microscopy. He gave the first of a series of lectures on chemistry under the auspices of the Pharmaceutical society of Toronto in 1869, and in 1876 was appointed to take charge of the Ontario educational exhibit at the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. In 1878 Dr. May was appointed secretary for the Dominion at the Paris exposition of that year, and was awarded the gold medal for the food exhibit, which won the grand prize. He also received the decora- tion of the Legion of honor, that of an officer of the Academy of Paris, and subsequently a medal from the French government. He received the appoint- ment of superintendent of art-schools in connection with the Ontario department of education in 1880, and represented the Ontario government at the colonial exhibition in London in 1886. When Dr. May was put in charge of the art department there were only two public art-schools ; now (1888) there are five, with more than seventy branch schools throughout the province.

MAYER, Brantz, author, b. in Baltimore, Md., 27 Sept., 1809; d. there, 21 March, 1879. He was educated at St. Mary's college, Baltimore, and studied law during a long voyage to the East in 1827-'8. On his return home he entered the law department of the University of Maryland, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. After practising for several years he visited Europe in 1833, and in 1843 was appointed secretary of legation in Mexico. When he returned home he published his first work, &ldquo;Mexico as it Was, and as it Is&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1844), which was accused of unfairness and gave rise to animated controversy. In the winter of 1844 Mr. Mayer founded the Maryland historical society, the original object of which was &ldquo;the collecting the scattered materials of the early history of the state, and for other collateral purposes.&rdquo; From a membership of twenty it has steadily increased to the present membership of two hundred, including many professional men as well as merchants. During the civil war Mr. Mayer was an active Unionist, and in 1861 was appointed president of the Maryland Union state general committee, and did much to aid the National cause. In February, 1863, he was appointed a paymaster in the U. S. army, and was retained in the service after the close of the war. He served in Maryland, Delaware, and California until his sixty-second year, when he was retired from active service with the rank of colonel. Besides the work mentioned above, he published &ldquo;Mexico, Aztec, Spanish, and Republican&rdquo; (2 vols., Hartford, 1851); &ldquo;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver,&rdquo; founded on fact (New York, 1854); &ldquo;Observations on Mexican History and Archæology&rdquo; in &ldquo;Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge&rdquo; (Washington, 1856); &ldquo;Mexican Antiquities&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1858); &ldquo;Memoir of Jared Sparks&rdquo; (1867); and &ldquo;Baltimore