the beauty of unblemished manhood, consumed by his fiery zeal." The University of Aberdeen gave him the degree of D. D. in 1749. He published, among numerous sermons and addresses, " Seven Sermons " (Boston, 1749) ; " Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers" (1750); '"Sermons" (1756); and "Sermons to Young Men" (1767). See "A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Jonathan Mavhew," bv Alden Bradford (Boston, 1838).
MAYNADIER, William, soldier, b. in Mary-
land in 1806; d. in Washington, D. C, 3 July,
1871. He was graduated at the "U. S. military
academy in 1827. became 1st lieutenant in 1832,
captain in 1838, major and lieutenaut-colonel in
1861, colonel in 1863, and brevet brigadier-general
in 1865. He was aide to Gen. Winfield Scott in
the Black Hawk war, and on similar duty under
Gen. Alexander Macomb during the early part of
the Florida war. He was frequently assigned to ord-
nance duty while in the artillery, and in 1838, on
the increase of that corps, became captain of ord-
nance, and was assigned to the Pikeville, Md.,
arsenal, where he was in command, acting also as
chief of ordnance till 1842, when he became prin-
cipal assistant to the chief of ordnance. From
this date he was closely associated in official con-
nection with the successive chiefs of the ordnance
bureau, by whom he was greatly valued for his
ability and long experience. He was charged and
acquitted in 1862 of disloyalty, as accessory to the
alleged attempt of Sec. John B. Floyd to transfer
U. S. cannon, munition, and arms to the south.
In 1864 he was inspector of arsenals and depots.
MAYMARD, Edward, inventor, b. in Madison,
N. Y., 26 April, 1813; d. in Washington, D. C, 4
May, 1891. He entered the U. S. military acad-
emy in 1831, but resigned in tlie same year, and
in 1835 became a dentist. In 1857 he became
professor of theory and practice in Baltimore
college of dental surgery, and he long held that
chair in the dental department of the National
university at Washington. He devised many
methods and instruments in connection with his
profession, but is best known by his improvements
in fire-arms. These include a system of priming
to take the place of the percussion - cap (1845),
which has been applied to rifles and muskets by
the U. S. government and abroad; the Maynard
breech-loading rifle (1851-'9), which is now in use
by nearly all civilized nations ; a method of con-
verting muzzle-loading arms into breech-loaders,
which has also been adopted here and nbroad
(1860) ; a device for joining two gun-barrels so
that they may expand or contract endwise inde-
pendently; an indicator for showing the number
of cartridges in the magazine of a repeating fire-
arm at any time ; and numerous minor inventions,
all of which have been patented. Dr. Maynard
had received many honors, both in the United
States and from foreign governments. — His son,
(xeorge Willougliby, artist, b. in Washington,
D. G., 5 March, 1843, studied at the Royal acad-
emy of fine arts of Antwerp in 1869-'73, and in
1878 had a studio in Paris, but returned to this
country and has resided in Xew York city. He is
a member of the Society of American artists ancl
the American water-color society, and has been
president of the Salmagundi sketch-club and the
American black and white society, and in 1885 was
elected a National academician. In 1884 he was
awarded a medal at the Pennsylvania academy of
fine arts. Besides numerous portraits, his works
include "Vespers at Antwerp" and "1776," sent
to the Centennial exhibition of 1876 ; " Water Car- i
riers of Venice " (1878) ; " Musical Memories " ; and
" Venetian Court." He has exhibited at the Na-
tional academy "An Ancient Mariner " (1883) ; "Au-
rora" (1884); "Strange Gods" (1885); "Portrait
of a Child " (1886) ; and " Old and Rare " (1887).
MAYNARD, Horace, statesman, b. in West-
borough, Mass., 13 Aug., 1814 ; d. in Knoxville.
Tenn., 3 May, 1882. He was graduated at Amherst
in 1838, and removed to Knoxville, Tenn., where
he was instructor in East Tennessee college in
1839-'43, and the next year was appointed professor
there of mathematics and natural history. He was
admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised with
success till 1857, when he took his seat in congress,
having been elected as an American, and served
till 1863. He returned to Knoxville after its oc-
cupation by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside in the
autumn of that year, but his property had been
confiscated and his family driven from east Ten-
nessee. He was staj;e attorney-general in 1864, a
delegate to the Baltimore Republican convention,
and a presidential elector. He was returned to
the 39th congress as a Republican, but did not take
his seat till 29 July, 1866, after which he served till
1875. In 1867 he was president of the Border
state convention. He was appointed U. S. minister
to Turkey in 1875, resigned in 1880, and in August
of that year became postmaster-general in Presi-
dent Hayes's cabinet, serving till March, 1881.
MAYO, Amory Dwight, clergyman, b. in
Warwick, Mass., 31 Jan., 1823. He was in Amherst
college in 1843-'4, but was obliged to leave on
account of failing health, and, after studying theology
under Hosea Ballou, was pastor of the Independent
Christian church at Gloucester, Mass., in 1846-'54,
of a church in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854-'6, and
then of Unitarian churches in Albany, N. Y.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Springfield, Mass., till 1879,
since which time he has been engaged in
educational work in the southern states. He served for
fifteen years as a member of the boards of education
in Cincinnati and Springfield, and has been a
strong advocate of the use of the Bible in the public
schools, and of the proposed “Christian amendment”
to the U. S. constitution. He has for many
years delivered an annual course of lectures in the
Meadville, Pa., theological school, in which he held
the chair of ecclesiastical polity. Mr. Mayo was
for six years associate editor of the “National
Journal of Education” in Boston. He has
contributed largely to periodicals, and published “The
Balance” (Boston, 1847); “Graces and Powers of
the Christian Life” (1850); “Symbols of the Capital,”
discourses on Christian civilization (New York, 1859); “Religion in Common Schools” (Cincinnati, 1869); and “Talks with Teachers” (1878). He also edited a volume of selections from his wife's writings, with a memoir (Boston, 1849), — His wife, Sarah Carter Edgarton, author, b. in Shirley, Mass., 17 March, 1819; d. in Gloucester, Mass., 9 July, 1848, began to contribute to journals at the age of seventeen. She edited “The Rose of Sharon,” an annual, from 1840 till her death, and for several years conducted “The Ladies' Repository,” a monthly magazine in Boston. She married Mr. Mayo in 1846. Mrs. Mayo published between 1836 and 1844 “The Palfreys,” “Ellen Clifford,” and “Memoirs of Mrs. Julia W. Scott,” and compiled “The Poetry of Women,” “The Flower Vase,” “Spring Flowers,” “The Floral Fortune-Teller,” and “Fables of Flora.”
MAYO, William, civil engineer, b. in England about 1685; d. in Richmond, Va., 20 Oct., 1744. In 1716 he emigrated to the island of Barbadoes, of which he made an excellent survey between
