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 MATZ MAURY

MATZt Nicholas Chrysostora, R.C. bishop, was born in Miinster, Lorraine, France, April 6, 1850. He was educated at the Petit Seminaire, Finstingen, France, and immigrated to the United States in 1868. He was prepared for the priesthood in the College of St. Marys of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio, and was ordained, May 81, 1874, at Denver, Col., by Vicar Ai)ostolic Machelieuf. He was assistant pastor at the Denver cathedral, 1874-77; pastor at Georgetown. Col., 1877-80, and of St. Ann's, East Denver, Col., 1885-87. He was appointed coadjutor to Vicar Apostolic Machebeuf, who became the first bishop of the newly created diocese of Denver in 1887, and he was consecrated at Denver, Col., Oct. 28, 1887, by Archbishop Sali)ointe, assisted by Vicar Apostolic Machebeuf and the Abbot Fiowinus, his title being Bishop of Telmassa. He served as coadjutor to Bishop Machebeuf until the death of that prelate, July 10, 1889, when he succeeded to the see of Denver. MAUCK, Joseph William, educator, was born at Cheshire, Ohio, Aug. 17. 1852; son of Joseph and Adaline R. (Sigler) Mauck; grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth Mauck, and a descendant of Daniel Mauck, born in Pennsylvania, about 1725, who removed to Shanandoah county, Va., in 1751. He was graduated at Hillsdale college, Mich., A.B., 1875, A.M., 1877; was an undergra<luate tutor in Greek and Latin at Hillsdale c«)llege. 1873-75; professor of Greek, 1876-80; a post-graduate student at Johns Hopkins university in 1881, and professor of Latin in Hillsdale college. 1881-83. He engaged in editorial work in Chicago. III., 1883-85, and in banking and insurance in Minneapolis, Minn., 1885-91; was acting editor and publisher of the Free Baptist, in Minneai)olis, 1887; president of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 1891-97; superintendent of the South Dakota educational exhibit at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, III., in 1893, and a trustee of Hillsdale college, 188192, and again elected in 1900. MAUPHIN, Socrates, educator, was born in Albemarle county, Va., Nov. 12, 1808; a descendant of Huguenot ancestors. He was graduated at Washington college, Lexington, Va., in 1828, and from the medical department of the University of Virginia in 1830. He then took a general literary and scientific course in the University of Virginia, receiving his A.M. degree in 1833. He was professor of ancient languages and mathematics at Hamptien Sidney college, 1833-35, and principal of Richmond academy, 1885-38. He then established a private school which he conducted until 1853, and he was also one of the founders in 1838 of the Richmond Medical school, in which he was professor of chemistry and afterward dean. In 1853 he was appointed professor of chemistry and pharmacy in the University of Virginia, and became chairman of the faculty in 1854, continuing as such imtil his death. He was an active member and promoter of the Virginia Historical society. He died in Lynchburgh. Va., Oct. 19, 1871.

MAURY, Abram Poindexter, representative, was born in Williamson county, Tenn., Dec. 26, 1801; son of Abram (1766-1825) and Martha (Worsham) (1775-1844) Maury, who came from Lunenburg county, Va., to Williamson county, Tenn., late in the eighteenth century; grandson of Abraham (1731-1784) and Susannah (Poindexter) (1746-1801) Maury; great-grandson of Matthew and Mary Ann (Fontaine) Maury, Huguenot refugees, married in England, 1716, and settled in Virginia, 1719. Abram Poindexter Maury received a superior education, and when sixteen years of age was taken to St. Louis, Mo., by Col. Thomas H. Benton, to edit a newspaper. He resigned the editorship the next year to enter the U.S. Military academy, but left the academy in 1819 to study law and edit a newspaper in Nashville, Tenn. He was married, Jan. 12, 1825, to Mary Eliza Tennessee Claiborne, a niece of W. C. C. Claiborne, first governor of Louisiana. Mr. Maury purchased the homestead in Williamson county, on the death of his father in 1825, and he represented the county in both branches of the Tennessee legislature and in the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39. After 1839, he devoted himself to the practice of law, to literary pursuits, and to lecturing. He died in Franklin, Tenn., July 16, 1848.

MAURY, Ann, author, was born in Liverpool, England, September, 1803; daughter of James and Mary (Rutson) Maury; grand-daughter of the Rev. James and Mary (Walker) Maury; great-granddaughter of Matthew and Mary Ann (Fontaine) Maury, the Huguenot emigrants, and great2-granddaughter of the Rev. James and Ann Elizabeth (Boursiquot) Fontaine, who before their marriage fled from France to England, Nov. 30, 1685. Her father was U.S. consul to Liverpool, 1789-1837. She was educated in Liverpool, and on the return of her parents to New York in 1837 she published A Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a Huguenot Refugee Family, compiled from the manuscripts of the Rev. James Fontaine by one of his descendants, with an introduction by the Rev. F. L. Hawks, D.D. In 1853 George P. Putnam & Co. republished the work under the title Memoirs of a Huguenot Family translated and compiled from the original autobiography of the Rev. James Fontaine, by Ann Maury, late of New York City, with an appendix giving Translations of the Edict of Nantes, the Edict of Revocation, etc. Ann Maury died in New York city in January, 1876.