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 MATTOCKS

MATTSON

1864, and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant services during the campaign ending with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox, March 13, 1865. He received a medal ot honor from congress for gallantry at Little Sailors Creek, Va., April 6, 1865, and was mustered out of service in 1865. He was graduated from Harvard Law school, LL.B., 1867, and practised in Portland, Maine. He was state's attorney of Cumberland county, Maine, 1869-72, a representa- tive in the state legislature, 1880-84, and was appointed judge of probate of Cumberland county, Dec. 11, 1900. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish American war he was reappointed brigadier-general of U.S. volunteers, June 9, 1898, and was assigned to the 3d army corps at Chickamauga, Ga. He was honorably discharged, Oct. 31, 1898. at the close of the war.

MATTOCKS, John, governor of Vermont, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 4, 1777, son of Samuel Mattocks, a captain in the Continental array, who removed to Tin mouth, Vt., in 1778; served in the state legislature; was chief-justice of the Rutland county court and state treasurer, 1786- 1800. John studied law with his father; lived with his sister Rebecca, who had married Samuel Miller, a lawyer, who had an office at Middlebury, 1792-95, and with Judge Bates Turner, at Fairfield, 1795-97; was admitted to the bar in 1797, and practised at Danville. He removed to Peacham, Vt., where he was a director of the Vermont State bank, and brigadier-general of the state militia in 1812. He was married, Sept. 4. 1810. to Esther Newell, who died July 21, 1844, leaving a son and three daughters. He was a representa- tive in the state legislature in 1807, 1815-16 and 1823-24; a delegate to the constitutional conven- tion of 1836, and was a representative in the 17th, 19th, and 27th congresses, 1821-23, 1825-27 and 1841-43. He was judge of the supreme court of Vermont in 1832: and was elected governor of the state by the Whig party in 1843 «nd served one terra. He died at Peacham, Vt., Aug. 14. 1847.

MATTOON, Ebenezer, representative, was born in Amherst, Mass.. Aug. 19. 1755. He was graduated from Dartmouth. A.B., 1776, A.M., 1779; served in the Revolutionary army in Can- ada, as a lieutenant of artillery, at Bemis's Heights, Oct. 7, 1777, and reached the rank of major. He was a representative in the general court for several terms: state senator, 1795-96; an Adams presidential elector in 1797: major- general of the 4th division, state militia. 1797- 1816; and was a representative in the 7th con-

gress to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Lyman, serving from Feb. 2, 1801. He was sheriff of Hampshire county for twenty years; was adjutant-general of Massachusetts. 1816; w-as a member and in 1817 commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston, but resigned on account of an affliction of his eyes. He became totally blind, but continued to cultivate his farm. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820. He died in Amherst, Mass.. Sept. 11, 1842.

MATTOON, Stephen, educator, was born in Champion, N.Y., May 5, 1816. He was gradu- ated from Union college in 1842, and from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1846; and was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Troy, Feb. 11, 1846. He was in Siam as a mis- sionary under the auspices of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, 1846-66, and pastor of the First church at Bangkok, Siam, 1860-66. He was pastor at Ballston Spa, N.Y., 1867-69; and stated supply at New Hope, N.C., 1870-71; at the Second church, Charlotte, N.C., 1871-78; and at Caldwell, Hopewell and Good Hope, N.C., 1878-79. He was president of Biddle university, N.C., 1870-84; and filled the chair of systejnatic theology, 1877-88. He translated the New Testa- ment into Siamese (1865). The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Union college in 1870. He died in Marion, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1889.

MATTSON, Hans, U.S. consul, was born in Khristianstad, Sweden, in 1832. He served in the Swedish army, 1849-51; immigrated to the United States in 1851, and resided in Boston. He was cabin boy on a coastwise steamer, and in 1855 removed to Galesburg, 111., and soon after to Malone, where his father, with several Swed- ish companions, joined him, and the whole party took up claims in Goodhue county, Minn., and founded the town of Vasa. In 1857 he removed to Red Wing, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He was auditor of Goodhue county, 1859- 61, and in 1861 became captain of a company of Swedes and was mustered into the Federal service in the 3d Minnesota volunteers. He served through the war, received the surrender of Gen. M. J. Thompson at Batesville, Ark., in 1865, and was shortly afterward mustered out, having attained the rank of colonel. He en- gaged in editorial work: was a member of the state board of immigration; secretary of the state of Minnesota, 1870-72 and 1887-91; and European agent for Jay Cooke & Co., 1872-73. He published the Svenskn Folkets Tidning at Minneapolis. 1876-81: and was also an editorial writer for the Svenskn Tribunen, Chicago, 111. He was U.S. consul-general at Calcutta, India, 1881-83, and engaged in the hanking in Minneapo- lis, Minn., where he died, March 5, 1893.