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MAYNARD


MAYO


Mass.; attended the East Tennessee university through the junior year and received private in- Btruction. under the Rev. Freilerick EHperandieu, near Knoxville. He was graduated ut the U.S. Naval academy in June, 1866 : was promoted en- sign, March 1'^ 1868^; master. Martrh 26. 1869 ; and lieutenant, Marcli 21, 1870. He was married, Oct. 4, 1871, to Be8.sie, youngest daughter of the Rev. Charles Timotliy (qv.). and Harriet Lyman (Ha- ssard) Brooksof Newport. R.I. Of the children of this marriage, all of whom were Ixjrn in New|X)rt, George Stevens 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 Richmond of the Pacific fleet, 1872-71, on special duty

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fisheries, 1874-75, and on the iron-clad Wyan- dotte on the North Atlantic station in 1876. He was engaged on the coast survey, 1876-77, commanded the coast-survey steamer Fathoiner 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 tlie North Atlantic and Asiatic stations, 1885-87 ; at the bureau of ordnance, 1887-91 ; commanded tlie Pinta, 1891- 93. and served in the bureau of equipment, 1893- 97. He was promoted commander, Sept. 27, 1893 ; commanded the Nanhville Aug. 19, 1897, to July, 1899, and during the Spanish-American 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, Amory Dwight, clergyman and edu- cationist, was born in Warwick, Mass., Jan. 31, 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 Deerfield academy, Mass., and at Amherst college, 1843-44. He taught in the public scliools 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 Edgarton 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 parish, residing chiefiy in Washington, D.C., but retaining his citizenship in Massachusetts and residing in Boston 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, Mass., 1872-79. He strongly urged the use of the Bible in the public kcIkjoIs and the i>roi)Osed Christian amendment to the U.S. constitution. He received the honorary degrees, A.M. from Amherst, 1874, and LL.D. from Berea college, Ky., 1897. He lectured in thirty states and was associate editor and edi- torial writer of the New England and National Journal of Education in Boston, 1880-86. He con- tributed largely to educational periodical litera- ture and is the author of : TJie Balance ; or the Moral Argument for Univeraalism (1847); Graces and Powers of the Christian Life (1850); Symbols of the Capital, or Civilization in New York (1859); Religion in Common Scfiools (1869); Talks with Teachers (1878) ; Industrial Education in the Southi\SS2)', Southern Women in the Recent Edu- cational Movement in the South (1885) ; His- tory of the American Common 5c7joo7, app«-aring 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 San Francisco, and was the leading man at Maguire's opera-house in San Francisco, 1863-65 ; at the Boston theatre, 1865- 66, and appeared as Badger in *• The Streets of New York," and as Hamlet, Richard the Third, lago, Othello, Jack Cade, d'Artagnan, and Don Csesar 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 pro<iuce<l " Davy Crockett *' for the first time at Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1872,