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the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association^ was organized 

 in Richmond, with three specific objects in mind. The 

 first was to have Maury's name placed in the Hall of 

 Fame of New York University. In this they have not 

 as yet succeeded, but in the election of 1925 Maury's 

 name came sixth, with fifty-two out of the one hundred 

 votes cast. The two successful candidates, John Paul 

 Jones and Edwin Booth, received sixty-eight and eighty- 

 five votes respectively; while the other three who were 

 ahead of Maury were John Jay with fifty-nine votes, 

 Samuel Adams with fifty-eight, and "Stonewall" Jackson 

 with fifty-three. The second object of the Maury 

 Association was to induce the State Board of Education 

 of Virginia to appoint January 14th — Maury's birthday 

 — as Maury Day in the schools; this was done June 27, 

 1916. Their third and most ambitious undertaking was 

 the erection of a bronze statue of Maury in Richmond. 

 In this effort slow but steady progress was made. The 

 Virginia legislature contributed $10,000, and after the 

 close of the World War the United Daughters of the 

 Confederacy gave their support to the raising of funds. 

 The school children of Virginia gave $2000, and many 

 others contributed generously. Accordingly, the sum 

 of $60,000 has now been raised, and the monument will 

 in the near future be put in place at the intersection of 

 Belmont and Monument Avenues in Richmond, where 

 the corner stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies 

 on June 22, 1922. A tentative model of this monument 

 has been made by the sculptor, Mr. F. William Sievers, 

 and approved by the committee in charge of the memo- 



* Great praise is due Mrs. E. E. Moffitt for founding this Maury Association, 

 and successfully raising the money necessary to build the monument to Maury 

 in Richmond. 



