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 MAYES

MAYHEW

that city. He was fitted for college at Mr. Camp- bell's grammar school and was graduated at Columbia in 1799. He studied theology under the Rev. Dr. John C. Kunze, 1799-1802, and was re- ceived as a member of the Evangelical Lutheran

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Ministerium of the state of New York, Sept. 1, 1803. He was ordained in 1803, and was pastor at Lunenburg (now Athens), N.Y., 1803-06. He was married, May 24, 1804, to Lucy W., daughter of Daniel Rodman, of New York. He was pastor of St. John's English Lutheran church, Philadel- pliia. Pa., 1806-57. This was the first exclusively English Lutheran congregation in the United States. He was active in originating and sustain- ing many important cliarities in Philadelphia; was one of the founders, in 1808, of the Pennsyl- vania Bible society, the first in the United States; its active manager for many years, and its pre- siding officer at the time of his death. He pre- pared a collection of hymns for public worship, to which was appended a liturgy in 1812, and a new edition in 1833. He was influential in estab- lishing the system of public education adopted by the state in 1817, and was president of the board of managers of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for several years. He declined the degree b.D. from Harvard in 1804, believing himself too young for such honor, and also declined the pro- vostship of the University of Pennsylvania in 1833, when the Rev. Dr. W. H. de Lancey resigned. He received the degree D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1823 and from Columbia in 1837, and was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, .1824-57. His sermon, delivered in 1856, on the fiftieth anniversary of his settlement over St. John's church was published. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 16, 1857.

MAYES, Edward, educator, was born in Hinds county. Miss., Dec. 15, 1846; son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Rigg) Mayes. He attended Bethany college, Va., 1860-61; served in the Confederate army, 1864-65: was graduated at the University of Mississippi, A.B., 1868, and LL.B., 1870, and

practised law in Oxford, Miss. He was professor of governmental science and law in the Univer- sity of Mississippi, 1877-92; chairman of the faculty, 1886-89, and chancellor of the university, 1889-92. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Mississippi college. He is the author of Life, Times and Speeches of L. Q. C. Lamar (1896), and of History of Education in Missis- sippi (1900).

MAYHEW, Jonathan, clergy rnan, was born at Martha's Vineyard, Oct. 8, 1720; son of the Rev. Experience (1673-1758) and Thankful (Hinck- ley) Mayhew; grandson of the Rev. John May- hew and of Gov. Thomas Hinckley, and a descend- ant through the Rev. Thomas, Jr. (1620-16- 57) of Thomas and Jane (Paine) Mayhew (1592-1682), who set- tled in Medford, Mass., about 1631, and with their son Thomas re- moved to Watertown in 1636 and to Mar- tha's Vineyard in 1643, where he established a colony and served as governor. Jona- than was graduated at Harvard in 1744; tutored and studied theology in Cambridge, Mass., 1744-47, and on March 6, 1747, became pastor of West church, Bos- ton, as successor to William Hooper, where he served until his death. His religious views, which were extremely liberal and approached rational ism, were so unpopular that no Boston minister took part in his ordination, and he was not admit- ted to the Boston Association of Congregational Ministers. He was married in 1756 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark, of Boston. He advocated limited allegiance to the crown jis early as 1750, and in 1763 opposed the work of the British so- ciety for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts and the introduction of bishops into the colonies, which involved him in a controversy with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Rev. East Apthorpe, Episcopal missionary to Boston. He addressed a letter to James Otis in June, 1766^ in which he showed his anxiety respecting the political state of the country and the importance of the union of the colonies. He received the degree D.D. from the University of Aberdeen in 1750, and served as scribe to the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers, 1755-56. He is the author of many sermons published singly and in collections. Alden Bradford pre- pared a memoir of his life and writings (1838). He died in Boston, Mass., July 9, 1766.

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