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 MAYNARD

MAYO

Mass.; attended the East Tennessee universitj through the junior year and recjeived private in- Btruction. under the Rev. Frederick Es|>erandieu, near Knt>xviile. He wjis graduated at the U.S. Naval academy in June, 1866 ; was promoted en- sign, March 1*2, 1808 ; nuister. March 26, 1869 ; and lieutenant, March 21. 1870. He was married, Oct. 4, 1871, to Bessie, youngest daughter of the Rev. Charles Timotliy (q.v.),and Harriet Lyman (Ha- zard) Brooks of Newport, R.I. Of the children of tliis marriage, all of whom were lM»rn in NewjKirt, George Stovens Maynard was born Jan. 23. 1873 ; Edward Washburn Maynard, Sept. 13, 1875, and Robert Washburn Maynard,Oct.l9,1879. He served

on the Califor- nia, Sarannc and Richmoud of the Pacific fleet, 1872-74, on special duty in connection

fisheries, 1874-75, and on the iron-clad Wyan- dotte on the North Atlantic station in 1876. He was engaged on tlie coast survey, 1876-77, commanded the coast-survey steamer Fathomer in 1877, and was attached to the Tennessee on the North Atlantic station, 1879-82. He was promoted lieutenant-commander, Sept. 27, 1884 ; served on the Brooklyn on tl»e North Atlantic and Asiatic stations, 1885-87 ; at the bureau of ordnance, 1887-91 ; commanded the Pinta, 1891- 93, and served in the bureau of equipment, 1893- 97. He was promoted commander, Sept. 27, 1893 ; commanded the Nashville Aug. 19, 1897, to July, 1899, and during the Spanish-Ainerican war, from April to August, 1898 ; was made lighthouse inspector of the 2d district, Dec. 12, 1899, and on March 9, 1900, was promoted captain.

MAYO, Araory Dwight, clergyman and edu- cationist, was born in Warwick, Mass., Jan. 81, 1823 ; son of Amory and Sophronia (Cobb) Mayo ; grandson of Caleb and Molly Mayo and of Will- iam- and Beulah Cobb, and a descendant of the Rev. John Mayo, first minister of the Second church of Boston, Mass., 1655. He was a student at Deerfieid academy, Mass., and at Amherst college, 1843-44. He taught in the public schools of Massachusetts, 1839-44 ; studied for the Liberal Christian ministry under the Rev. Hosea Ballon, 1844-46, and was pastor of the Independent Christian society, the first Universalist church in the United States, in Gloucester, Mass., 1846-54, He was married, first, July 28, 1846, to Sarah Carter Eklgarton of Shirley, Mass., and secondly, in December, 1853, to Lucy Caroline Clarke of New Brighton, Pa. He was pastor of the Liberal Christian church at Cleveland. Ohio. 1854-55 ; of the Division Street church at Albany, N.Y,,

1856-68 ; of the Church of the Redeemer (Unita* rian), Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863-72, and of the Church Of the Unity (Unitarian), Springfield, Mass. , 1872-79. He was professor of ecclesiastical polity and a lecturer in Meadville Theological school, Pa., 1868-98. From 1880 he held no parisli, residing chiefly in Washington, D.C., but retaining his citizenship in Massachusetts and residing in Bo.ston during the summer. He devoted himself to educational work, especially in the southern states. He was a member of the board of education in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1863-72, and in Springfield, Mas.?., 1872-79. He strongly urged the use of the Bibh? in the public scIkx>1s and the proposed Christian amendment to the U.S. constitution. He received the honorary degrees, A.M. from Amherst, 1874, and LL.D. from IJerea college, Ky., 1897. He lectured in thirty states and was a.ssociate editor and edi- torial writer of the Neio England and National Journal of Edncat ion in Boston, 1880-86. He con- tributed largely to educational periodical litera- ture and is the author of : The Balance ; or the Moral Argument for Universalism (1847); Graces and Powers of the Christian Life (1850); Symbols of the Capital, or Civilization in New York (1859); Religion in Common Schools (1869); Talks trith Teachers (1878) ; Industrial Education in the South{\8S2); Southern Women in the Recent Edu- cational Movement in the South (1885) ; His- tory of the American Common School, appearing in the reports of the U.S. bureau of education from 1893. He also edited a volume of selections from his first wife's writings, with a memoir (1849).

MAYO, Frank, actor, was born in Boston, Mass., April 19, 1839. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and in 1854 went to Cali- fornia to engage in mining gold. He made his debut as an actor, July 19, 1856, at the American theatre, San Francisco, under the management of Laura Keene. and played in the west with Edwin Booth, Julia Dean Hayne and others. He scored a success as Nana Sahib, in Boucicault's " Jessie Brown," in Sjui Francisco, and was the leading man at Maguire's opera-house in San Francisco, 186.3-65 ; at the Boston theatre, 1865- 66, and appeared as Biidger in " The Streets of New York," and as Hamlet, Richard the Third, lago, Othello, Jack Cade, d'Artagnan, and Don Caesar de Bazan, with great success. He played for the first time in New York city in March, 1869, at the Grand opera-house, as Ferdinand in " The Tempest," followed by a tour, in which he played in the standard Shakespearian dramas, and in "The Robbers." "The Three Guards- men," "The Marble Heart" and "Damon and Pythias." He produced " Davy Crockett " for the first time at Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1872,