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1898. He is the author of: A Oovemmeiit Text Book for Iowa ScJiools (1885); Institutional Be- ginnings in a Western State (1886); Our Oovem- ment, How it Qreiv, What it Does and How it Does it (1886); First Lessons in Civil Government (1894); TJie English Constitution {\S97); Political Parties in the United States, 184G-1S61 (1899), and many articles in reviews and other periodi- cals.

MACY, John B., representative, was born in Nantucket, Mass., March 26, 1799; son of Francis and Elizabeth (Brown) Macy; grandson of Fran- cis and Judith (Coffin) Macy, and a descendant of Thomas Macy, the emigrant. He was married to Mary, daughter of Sylvanus and Susan (Rand) Russell of Nantucket. He removed to New York city in 1826, and thence, in the same year, to Buffalo, N.Y., where he had large land inter- ests. He resided in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1842-45; was one of the founders of Toledo and other cities in Ohio, and in 1845, having purchased land in Wisconsin, he removed to Fond du Lac in that state, and was instrumental in founding several towns in Wisconsin. He was a representative from Fond du Lac in the 32d and 33d congresses, 1851-55. He was lost by the burning of the Niagara on Lake Michigan, Sept. 24, 1857.

MACY, William 5tarbuck, painter, was born in New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 11, 1854; son of William Henry and Eliza Jane (Wordell) Macy; grandson of Zacheus and Rebecca (Smitli) Macy and of John and Sarah (Stanton) Wordell, and a descendant of Thomas Macy, the first settler of Nantucket. He attended the public and private schools of New Bedford, studied art in the New York Academy of Design, 1870-75; and af Munich under Velten, the Russian painter, 1875. On Iiis return to the United States he opened a studio in New York city and another in New Bedford, Mass. He was married, in April, 1894, to Anne, daughter of William and Jessie Alexander of Santa Barbara, Cal. He was a member of the Lotos club and the Artists' Fund society of New York. He exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1877 and at the Mechanics' Fair, Boston, Mass., in 1878, where he received one of the six " A " medals for his landscape " Meadows near Munich." He also exhibited annually at the National Academy of Design in New York city. Among his more im- portant pictures are: Edge of the Forest (1881); Old Forest in Winter (1884); Winter Sunset (1884); Old Mill (1885); January in Bermuda (1886).

MADDOX, John W., representative, was born in Chatooga county, Ga., June 3, 1848. He attended the public schools, and in 1863 en- listed in the Confederate army as a private, serv^ing in the ranks throughout the remainder of the civil war. He studied law in Summerville.

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Ga.; was admitted to the bar in 1877; practised in Summerville, 1877-86, and then removed to Rome, Ga. He was county commissioner, 1878- 80; a representative in the state legislature, 1880- 84; state senator, 1884-86; judge of the superior court, 1886-92, and a Democratic representative from the seventh district of Georgia in the 53d- 58th congresses, 1893-1905.

MAD150N, Dorothy (Payne) Todd, wife of President Madison, was born in North Carolina, May 20, 1767; daughter of John and Mary (Coles) Payne and granddaughter of John and Hannah (Fleming) Payne, and of William Coles of Coles Hill, Va. Her pa- ternal grandfather emigrated from Eng- land to Virginia early in the 18th century and her paternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, one of the pioneer settlers of Jamestown. Her parents removed to Philadelpliia while Dorothy was a child and joined the So- ciety of Friends, in which faith she

was reared. She was married in 1786 to John Todd, a young lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa., who died in 1789 leaving her with an infant son. She made her home with her widowed mother in Philadelphia and assisted her in keeping a board- ing house. She was married secondly in 1794 to James Madison, one of her mother's boarders, in attendance as representative from Virginia in the 3d congress. The ceremony was performed at " Harewood," Jefferson county, Va., the home of her younger sister Lucy, the wife of George Steptoe Washington. They resided at " Mont- pelier," Mr. Madison's summer home, until 1809 when he w^as appointed secretary of state and they removed to Washington, D.C. Mrs. Madison became the centre of Washington's .social circle, and upon the election of her husband as President of the United States, she filled the position of mistress of the White House brilliantly and suc- cessfully. In 1814 the British army marched against the national capital and the President and his cabinet fled to Virginia, but Mrs. Madison remained at the White House where she packed many important cabinet papers into trunks which were put into a carriage, and as an afterthought she removed Stuart's portrait of Washington from its frame and saw it in a place of safety before leaving. She vvas rejoined by Mr. Madison in Washington and together they fled to Virginia.