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hotel, St. Augustine, Fla.; William Rockefeller's home at Tarry town, N.Y. ; Whitelaw Reid's resi- dence at Tarry town, N.Y., and the dining-rooms of the Plaza, Imperial and Savoy hotels and the ball-room of Sherry's, New York city. He also

received the commis- sion for the decora- tion of the Agricul- tural building at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893, and received a medal of honor as one of the designers of the World's Columbian exposition. He made a 8p<»cialty of por- traits and figure group ])aintings, was award- ed the Temple gold medal by the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1884 ; the medal of honor by tlie American Art association in 1888 ; the Evans prize by the American Water Color society, and the Shaw prize by the Society of American Artists. Besides portraits his paintings include : Vespers at Antwerp (1873) and 1776, exhibited at the Centennial exhibition of 1876 ; An An- cient Mariner (1883) ; Strange Gods (1885) ; 37te Portrait of a CJnld (1886) ; Old and Rare (1887) ; In Strange Seas (1889) ; Sappho, TJie Sirens, and Aurora (1899).

MAYNARD, Horace, statesman, was born in Westboro, Mass., Aug. 30, 1814 ; son of Ephraim and Diana (Cogswell) Maynard ; grandson of Jon- athan and Zipporah (Bruce) Maynard. and of

James and Rebe<;ca (Cotton) Cogswell, and a descendant in the sixth generation from Sir John May- nard, proprietor of Sudbury, Mass., 16- 88 ; and from John Cogswell, 1635. He paid his own way through college and was graduated at Amherst, valedictor- ian of the class, 18- 88. He was an in- structor and princi- pal of the prepara- tory department, East Tennessee college, 1838-40, and was professor of mathematics and natural history there, 1840-44. He was married, Aug. 80, 1840, to Laura Ann. daughter of the Rev. Azel Washburn of Royalton, Vt. He was ad-

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mitted to the bar in 1844, practised in Knox- ville, and was an unsuccessful candidate on the Whig ticket for representative in the 33d con- gress in 1852 ; elector on the Scott and Graham ticket, and elector at large on the Fillmore and Donelson ticket. He was a delegate to the Whig national convention of 1852 ; a member of the constitutional convention of Tennessee, 1865 ; a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' conven- tion, 1866, and president of the Border State con- vention, Baltimore, 1867. He was Native Ameri- can representative from the second Tennessee district in the 35th, 36th and 37th congresses, 1857-63 ; and was chairman of the special com- mittee to investigate the accounts of William Cullom, clerk of the house. For his disloyalty his property was confiscated by the Confederate government in 1862, and he and his family were driven from eastern Tennessee. He was attorney- general of Tennessee, 1863-65, was a Republican representative in the 39th congress, being ad- mitted to his seat near the close of the first ses- sion, and was re-elected to the 40th, 41st and 42d congresses, and as a representative at large to the 43d congress, serving 1866-75. He was chair- man of the committees on southern railroads and banking. He was the defeated Republican candi- date for governor of Tennessee in 1874 ; was U.S. minister to Turkey, 1875-80, and postmaster- general under President Hayes from August, 1880, until March 4, 1881. He received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1862.v He died in Knox- ville, Tenn.. May 3, 1882.

MAYNARD, Samuel Taylor, botanist, was born in Hard wick, Mass., Dec. 6, 1844; son of William and Sarah (Nourse) Maynard ; grandson of Taylor and Betsey Maynard, and a descendant of Samuel Nourse. He was graduated f i-om the Massachusetts Agricultural college in 1872 and was chosen professor of botany and horticulture at that institution in 1879. He was botanist and homologist of the Massachusetts state board of agriculture ; a director of the horticultural divis- ion of the state experimental station, and sec- retary of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' asso- ciation. He is the author of: The Practical Fruit Grower (1884), which reached a sale of over 100,000 copies, ^nd Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration (1899), besides numerous contributions on botanical and horti- cultural subjects to the leading magazines.

MAYNARD, Washburn, naval officer, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1844; son of Horace and Laura Ann (Washburn) Maynard ; grandson of Ephraim and Diana Harriet (Cogs- well) Maynard, and of Azel and Sallie (Skinner) Washburn, and a descendant of Sir John May- nard, who settled in Sudbury, Mass., 1638. He was a student in the public schools of Westboro,