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three days when he floated off, raised the Amer- ican flag at the maintop-gallaot-mast, fired thir- teen guns as a signal of defiance and reached Boston in safety wliere he was received with great honors. This incident took place after the preliminaries for peace with Great Britain had been arranged, and he thus had the honor of beginning and ending the naval engagements of the Revolutionary war. He was retained in the naval establishment after the declaration of peace. He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1793.

MANLY, John Matthews, educator, was born in Sumter county, Ala., Sept. 2, 1865 ; son of the Rev. Charles (q.v.),and Mary (Matthews) Manly. He was prepared for college at the Staunton, Va., and Greenville, S.C, military academies and was graduated at Furman university, S.C, A.M., 1883, and at Harvard A.M., 1889, and Ph.D., 1890. He was acting principal at Green's high school, S.C, 1884; tutor at Palmyra, Va., 1884-85; assistant at William Jewell college, 1885-88 ; instructor in Anglo-Saxon at Radcliflfe college, 1890-91, and at Harvard summer school, 1891 ; acting assistant professor of English language and literature, 1891, associate professor, 1891-92, and professor of English language, 1892-98, at Brown university, R.I. In 1898 he was elected professor and head of the department of English in the University of Chicago. He was elected a member of numer- ous scientific societies. He is the author of : Tlie Language of Chaucer's Legende of Ooode Women (1893); Shakspere's Macbeth (1896); and Speci- mens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama (3 vols., 1902).

MANLY, Matthias Evans, jurist, was born in Pittsboro, N.C, April 13, 1800 ; son of Basil and Elizabeth (Maultsby) Manly, and grandson of Thomas and Mary (Ford) Manly. He was graduated from theUniversity of North Carolina, A.B., 1824, A.M., 1829 ; was a tutor in mathemat- ics at the university, 1825-29 ; was admitted to the bar, and practised in New Berne, N.C. He ^was a member of the state house of commons, 1834-45 ; judge of the superior court, 1840-59 ; justice of the supreme court, 1860-65 ; a member of the convention of 1865, and was a speaker of the state senate, 1866-67. He was elected to the U.S. senate in 1867, but was not allowed to take his seat, and he returned to his practice in New Berne, and was chosen judge of Craven county. He was twice married, first to Hannah, daughter of William Gaston, and secondly to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Simpson. He died at New Berne, N.C, July 16, 1881.

MANN, Abljah, representative, was born in Fairfield, Herkimer county, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1793; son of Abijah and Levina (Ford) Mann ; grand- son of Abijah and Sarah (Porter) Mann, and a descendant of Richard and Rebecca Mann who

emigrated from England to America previous to 1644, and settled in Scituate, Mass. He attended the public schools of Herkimer county, and began life as a school teacher in Oneida county. He soon after engaged in trade and acquired con- siderable real estate in the principal cities and villages in New York, and purchased an unde- veloped coal mine in Lackawanna county, Pa^ He was married, Jan. 18, 1814, to Mary Ann Bruce. He early connected himself with the Democratic wing of the Republican party, held several local offices, and was a member of the New York assem« bly, 1828-31. He was a representative in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1833-37 ; was appointed one of the committee to investigate the affairs of the U.S. bank, but was denied access to the- bank building, whereupon he hired men in- tending to dig an entrance under the building, when the oflBcers allowed Mr. Mann to make an investigation and he reported the details to the- President in person. He was again a member of the New York assembly in 1837, and subsequently opened a law office in New York city. He waa the unsuccessful candidate for attorney-general of the state in 1855, served as a delegate from Queens county, in the Republican State conven- tion of 1856 over which Reuben E. Fenton pre- sided and in 1857 was defeated in the Republican convention for the nomination for state senator by Samuel Sloane. He then retired from public life. He died in Auburn, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1868.

MANN, Ambrose Dudley, diplomatist, was born in Hanover Court-House, Va., April 26, 1801. He was a cadet at the U.S. Military academy,, but resigned to take up the study of law. He was apix)inted U.S. consul to Bremen, Germany, by President Tyler in 1842, and in 1845 nego- tiated commercial treaties with Hanover, Olden- burg and Mecklenburg, and in 1847 with all the other German provinces except Prussia. He wa& U.S. commissioner to Hungary in 1849 ; U.S. minister to Switzerland by appointment from President Fillmore, 1850-54, and he negotiated a reciprocity treaty with that republic. He was- assistant secretary of the state of Virginia, 1854- 56, and was sent to Europe by the Confederate government on a special mission to England and France for the accomplishment of which he was soon after joined by James M. Mason and John Slidell. He made his home in France after the collapse of the government he represented. He spent the last years of his life in preparing hi* Memoirs which were published after his death. He died in Paris, France, Nov. 20, 1889.

MANN, Horace, educationist, was born in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 1796 ; son of Thomas and Rebecca (Stanley) Mann ; grandson of Nathan and Esther Mann, and a descendant of William Mann who immigrated to America from England