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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MAYO MORGAN.) 



(1859); and Recollections of a Virginian in ,the 

 Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars (1894). 



Mayo, Edwin Frank, actor, born in San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal., March 18, 1864; died in Quebec, Can- 

 ada, Feb. 18, 1900. He was the only son of the 

 late Frank Mayo, who was famous for his imper- 

 sonations of Davy Crockett. The family name, 

 abandoned by the father for the stage name 

 " Mayo," was'Maguire. Edwin made his first ap- 

 pearance at his father's theater, Rochester, N. Y., 

 in 1868, as the boy in Davy Crockett. For eleven 

 years he played as a member of his father's com- 

 pany, assuming from time to time different roles 

 in Davy Crockett and The Streets of New York, 

 which constituted the elder Mayo's very limited 

 but greatly popular repertory. During the sea- 

 son of 1881-'82 he was a member of his father's 

 company in a traveling season of Shakespearean 

 and standard plays, in which he played minor 

 characters. For four years thereafter he was his 

 father's principal support in the latter's play 

 Nordick, first produced at the Union Square 

 Theater, New York, May 20, 1885. On June 13, 

 1887, he began a series of engagements as a star 

 in his father's play Davy Crockett at the Grand 

 Opera House, New York. He traveled over the 

 country, filling engagements for a season, and 

 in January, 1889, produced The Silver Age at 

 the Thalia Theater, New York. He rejoined his 

 father's company in May, 1890, and remained 

 with him for a season. Dec. 20, 1892, he began 

 an engagement in a production of After Twenty 

 Years, at Niblo's Garden, in the dual role of 

 Aaron Abraham and Major Douglas. After the 

 death of the elder Mayo, in 1896, his son succeeded 

 him as the representative of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 

 which character he played with much success 

 during the regular seasons up to the day of his 

 death. His last appearance was in this character 

 at Montreal, Feb. 17, 1900. 



Mayo, William Kennon, naval officer, born in 

 Drummondtown, Va., May 29, 1829; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., April 10, 1900. He was appointed 

 midshipman, Oct. 18^1841; promoted passed mid- 

 shipman, Aug. 10, 1847; master, Sept. 14, 1855; 

 lieutenant, Sept. 15, 1855; lieutenant commander, 

 July 16, 1862; commander, July 25, 1866; captain, 

 Dec. 12, 1873; commodore, July 2, 1882; and re- 

 tired, May 18, 1886. He took part in the blockade 

 of Tampico and Vera Cruz. He was detailed for 

 special service in connection with scientific ob- 

 servations in the North Atlantic, in surveying a 

 route over the Isthmus of Panama, and in the 

 work of the coast survey. He also served for a 

 time as instructor at the Naval Academy, and 

 wrote the System of Naval Tactics and Fleet Sail- 

 ing, used there as a text-book. He was in com- 

 mand of the corvette Housa tonic in the blockade 

 of Charleston in January, 1862. In November of 

 that year he was placed' in command of the Kana- 

 wha, in the Western Gulf squadron. In February, 

 1864, he was stationed in Washington on special 

 duty, but in July he took command of the Nahant, 

 and made the blockade of Charleston more ef- 

 fective; he ran ashore nine steamers in seven 

 months, for which he received the commendation 

 of the Secretary of the Navy. After the fall of 

 Charleston he became ordnance officer of the South 

 Atlantic blockading fleet. After the war he spent 

 three years on navigation duty at Boston, and 

 later commanded several vessels in station service. 

 He M-as commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard 

 from 1882 till 1885. He was retired upon his own 

 application. 



Mestayer, Charles Henry, actor, born in New 

 York c-ity in 1846; died in Ottawa, Canada, Jan. 

 22, 1900. He was a son of Henry Mestayer and 



brother of the late William Mestayer, all of a 

 family long connected with the American stage. 

 Charles made his first appearance as an infant 

 in the arms of his mother, who was a popular 

 singer at Niblo's Garden, New York. He was 

 taken to California in 1853, and continued to ap- 

 pear as a mute actor of children until old enough 

 to go to school. He was educated at St. Ignatius 

 College, in San Francisco, and in 1869 became ;i 

 member of the stock company at the California 

 Theater. He was afterward a member of various 

 traveling companies, supporting Edwin Booth, 

 Thomas Keene, the Lingards, and others, and for 

 two years before his death had been playing the 

 part of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in the drama entitled 

 Remember the Maine. His last appearance was in 

 that r6le, Jan. 20, 1900, at Cornwall, Ontario. 



Mitchell, Edward Gushing, educator, born in 

 East Bridgewater, Me., Sept. 20, 1829; died in 

 New Orleans, La., March 2, 1900. He was gradu- 

 ated at Waterville (now Colby) College, and con- 

 tinued his studies at Newton Theological Semi- 

 nary. He was pastor in Calais, Me., for a year, 

 and then removed to Rockford, 111. Later he was 

 Professor of Theology in the college at Alton. 111. 

 In 1872 the theological department was trans- 

 ferred to Chicago University, and he went then: 

 as Professor of Hebrew. In 1876 he went to Lon- 

 don as professor in Regent's Park College, serving 

 two years. In 1878 he established a Baptist theo 

 logical school in Paris; he remained there four 

 years, and graduated one class. In 1883-'84 hl 

 reorganized the colored schools of the South unde : 

 the American Home Missionary Society. In 1887 

 he was appointed president of Leland University, 

 New Orleans, which place he filled at his death. 

 He published Principles of Hebrew Grammar (An<| 

 dover, 1880) ; Critical Handbook of the Greek Ne\J 

 Testament (1880) ; Les Sources du Nouveau Testa- 

 ment (Paris, 1882) ; and Hebrew Introduction 

 (Andover, 1884). 



Mitchell, William, jurist, born in Welland 

 County, Ontario, Nov. 19, 1832; died in Alexan- 

 dria, Minn., Aug. 21, 1900. He was graduated 

 at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1853, and 

 was admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1857. In 

 the same year he removed to Winona, Minn., where 

 he practiced from 1857 till 1873. He was ap- 

 pointed judge of the Third Judicial District of 

 Minnesota, and served from January, 1874, till 

 March, 1881, when he became a justice of the 

 Supreme Court of that State. 



Moore, Marcus Marcellus. clergyman, born 

 near Quincy, Fla., March 15, 1856; died in Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., Nov. 23, 1900. He was the son of 

 a slave. He entered the first private school estab- 

 lished in Florida for negroes, and later studied 

 at Howard University and Cookman Institute, 

 Jacksonville. He was appointed sheriff of Brad- 

 ford County in 1875, but was too young to qualify. 

 He was licensed to preach in 1876, became presid- 

 ing elder, and in 1896 was made general financial 

 secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church. In May, 1900, he was elected bishop < f 

 the diocese including the State of Louisiana and 

 Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africa. He was also 

 president of the American Preachers' Aid Society. 



Morgan. William James, editor, born in 

 Peterborough. Canada, Oct. 16, 1840; died in Al- 

 bany, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1900. He was educated h 

 the 'public schools of Buffalo, N. Y. He enlist. I 

 as a private in the 116th Regiment, New \ \ < 

 Volunteers. He participated in all the battles in 

 which his regiment was engaged, and was severely 

 wounded at Port Hudson, and he was breyettel 

 lieutenant colonel. Returning in 1864, he joinei 

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