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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MARTY MAYO.) 



tered the shipyard of John Roach, where he re- 

 mained till Mr. Roach's failure in 1885. During 

 this period he designed the engines of the steam 

 ram " Dunderberg." a pioneer armored ship, which 

 was sold to the French Government, and also the 

 machinery for the cruiser "Iroquois" and other 

 war ships, for the ocean steamsTiips " City of To- 

 kio." "City of Pekin,'' and others of the Pacific 

 Mail line, and for the Sound steamers "Bristol" 

 and "Providence." After the Roach failure Mr. 

 Main engaged in designing on his own account. 

 On the establishment of the Webb Academy of 

 Shipbuilding, in New York city, he was appointed 

 its Professor of Engineering. He was author of a 

 " History of the Steam Engine.'' 



Marty, Martin, clergyman, born in Schwyx, 

 Switzerland, Jan. 12,1834; died in St. Cloud, Minn., 

 Sept. 19, 1896. He was educated for the priesthood 

 in Switzerland and Austria ; entered the Benedic- 

 tine abbey of Einsiedeln in 1855 ; and was ordained 

 in the following year. In 1860 he came to the 

 United States to assist 

 a party of monks from 

 Einsiedeln who had found- 

 ed St. Meinrad's. in Indi- 

 ana, in 1854. Five years 

 afterward a priory was 

 established there, of which 

 he was appointed the first 

 superior. In 1870 Pope 

 Pius erected the priory 

 into an abbey, constituted 

 the clergy connected with 

 it the H el veto- American 

 Congregation, and ap- 

 pointed the superior a 

 mitered abbot. On May 

 22, 1872, the abbot laid 

 the corner stone of a new 



monastery. He had previously been zealous in ex- 

 tending missions, building churches, and establish- 

 ing educational and benevolent institutions, and 

 had induced a large immigration of German Roman 

 Catholics to Spencer and Dubois Counties. After 

 presiding over the abbey and its institutions for 

 several years, the abbot voluntarily relinquished 

 the dignity and burdens of his office to undertake 

 mission work among the Indians of Dakota. He 

 made a study of their languages, particularly that 

 of the Sioux ; compiled a Sioux grammar and dic- 

 tionary, with which he taught a number of priests 

 and Sisters of Charity that language ; and sent this 

 company to engage in religious and educational 

 work among the Sioux. He acquired great influ- 

 ence over the Indians, had unmolested range of 

 their camp when no other white man was permitted 

 there, and aided the Federal Government in its 

 dealings with this troublesome tribe. In 1879 the 

 Territory of Dakota was formed into a vicariate- 

 apostolic and placed under charge of Father Marty, 

 who was consecrated Bishop of Tiberias on Feb. 1, 

 1880, with the local title of First Bishop of Sioux 

 Falls. In 1884 Bishop Marty reported to the 

 Plenary Council of Baltimore that his vicariate con- 

 tained nearly 90 churches, 50 priests, and 7 Indian 

 missions, attended by the clergy, Benedictine, 

 Ursuline, and Presentation nuns, besides the Sisters 

 of the Holy Cros&and the You ville Sisters of Charity. 

 In 1894 Bishop Marty was transferred to the diocese 

 of St. Cloud, Minn. 



Mason, Luther Whiting 1 , educator, born in Tur- 

 ner, Maine, April 3. 180S; died in Buckfield, Maine, 

 July 14, 1896. In 1853 he became superintendent 

 of music in the public schools of Louisville, Ky., 

 where he introduced singing by rote and then by 

 note into all departments. From Louisville lie went 

 to Cincinnati, where he occupied a similar post for 



several years. To promote his original methods of 

 musical education, he invented type with which to 

 print the special charts that he used. These charts 

 and the text-books accompanying them ultimately 

 became "The National System," since published in 

 Boston. Prof. Mason served in the National army 

 in the civil war as a drum major, and after the war 

 settled in Boston, where he spent fourteen years in 

 teaching music in the public schools. His' exhibit 

 at the Centennial Exposition attracted the atten- 

 tion of the representatives of Japan, and they in- 

 vited him to visit their country professionally. ' lie 

 remained there three years, supplementing his school 

 work with instruction in the families of the nobility, 

 and took charge of a school where an orchestra of 

 Japanese and European instruments was formed. 

 On leaving Japan he received valuable presents 

 from the Mikado, which he presented to the Boston 

 Art Museum, and the public thanks of the Empress. 

 He went to Germany and studied the method of 

 training of the cathedral choirs. On May 25, 1895, 

 his long service in the cause of musical education 

 was commemorated by a public reception. 



Maynard, Isaac Horton. jurist, born in Bovina, 

 Delaware County, N. Y., April 9, 1838; died in 

 Albany, N. Y., June 12, 1896. He was graduated 

 at Amherst College in 1862; was admitted to the 

 bar in 1863 ; and made his permanent home at 

 Stanford, N. Y., in 1865. In 1875 and 1876 was 

 elected to the Legislature as a Democrat, and in 

 1877 was elected county judge and surrogate of 

 Delaware County. He was defeated as candidate 

 for Secretary of State of New York in 1883. and 

 was appointed second comptroller of the United 

 States Treasury in 1885, and assistant secretary of 

 the department in 1887. Two years afterward Gov. 

 Hill appointed him one of the commissioners to re- 

 vise the general laws of the State; in 1890 he be- 

 came first deputy attorney-general ; and on Jan. 19, 

 1*92, Gov. Flower appointed him an associate, 

 justice of the Court of Appeals. AYhile deputy at- 

 torney-general he was accused of abstracting from 

 the State Comptroller's office the corrected election 

 returns from Dutchess County, on Dec. 22, 1891. 

 These returns would have decided the political com- 

 plexion of the State Senate, and in their absence 

 the State Board of Canvassers had to act on a single 

 return, which made the Senate Democratic. Judge 

 Maynard explained his connection with the case, 

 but the State Bar Association was not satisfied, and 

 after an investigation pronounced a severe censure 

 on him. In the Legislature a hasty investigation 

 was made and resulted in a report practically ex- 

 onerating Judge Maynard. He was nominated for 

 a full term in the Court of Appeals in 1893, but was 

 defeated by the Republican candidate by 106,000, 

 the Republican candidates for the other offices re- 

 ceiving from 23.000 to 35,000 plurality. 



Mayo, Frank, actor, born in Boston. Mass., April 

 19. 1839 ; died on a railroad train near Grand Island, 

 Neb., June 8. 1896. When sixteen years old he 

 went to California to engage in mining, hut instead 

 became a supernumerary in the American Theater, 

 San Francisco. The following year he began taking 

 speaking parts. He spent seven years playing with 

 different companies, and in 1863 was engaged as lead- 

 ing man at Maguire's Opera House In 1865- '(56 he 

 was leading man at the Boston Theater. He made 

 his first appearance in New York city in the Grand 

 Opera House as Ferdinand in "The Tempest," 

 March 31, 1869. This engagement was followed by 

 a starring tour, in which he appeared in all the 

 standard Shakespearean dramas, as well as " Yir- 

 ginius." " Richelieu," "The Robbers," "The Three 

 Guardsmen," "The Marble Heart," " Damon and 

 Pythias," " Jack Cade," and " Tlic Streets of New 

 York." In 1872 he first produced " Davy Crockett " 



