I'cmained three years. After this service he was 

 unployed professionally in New York city. 

 Mason, Edwin ., military officer, born in Ohio, 

 May 31, 1831; died in St. Paul, Minn., April 20, 

 1898. lie was appointed a captain in the 17th 

 United States Infantry from civil life, May 14, 1861 ; 

 was transferred to the 35th Infantry, Sept. 21, 

 1866 ; and to the 20th Infantry, Oct. 14, 1869 ; was 

 promoted major, 21st Infantry, Sept. 5, 1871 ; lieu- 

 tenant colonel, 4th Infantry, May 19, 1881 ; and col- 

 onel, 3d Infantry, April 24, 1888; and was retired 

 May 31, 1895. In the volunteer service he was ap- 

 pointed a captain in the 2d Ohio Infantry. April 29, 

 1861, and was commissioned colonel of the 7th Maine 

 Infantry, Aug. 22, 1861, and of the 176th Ohio In- 

 fantry, Sept. 23, 1864. He was brevetted major, 

 Dec. 13, 1862, for gallantry at Fredericksburg ; lieu- 

 tenant colonel, May 6, 1864, for the battle of the 

 Wilderness; colonel, May 10 following, for Spott- 

 sylvania; brigadier general of volunteers, June 3. 

 1865, for faithful services during the war; and 

 brigadier general United States army, Feb. 27, 1890, 

 for services in action against the Indians in the 

 lava beds, Cal., April 17, 1873, and at Clear water, 

 Idaho, July 11, 12, 1877. 



Massett, Stephen, author and actor, born in Lon- 

 don, England, in 1820; died in New York city, 

 Aug. 22, 1898. He came to America in 1837 on a 

 sailing vessel, and made his. debut as an actor in 

 Buffalo, N. Y. In 1841 he was engaged for singing 

 parts in the drama by the manager of the Charles- 

 ton^. C., Theater, where he quickly won popularity 

 both as an actor and as a good ballad singer. Hi's 

 singing of " The Light of Other Days " and " Oh, 

 would I were a Boy again " were especially admirod. 

 After one season in Charleston, where he had played 

 under the name of Stephens, he was engaged for 

 Mitchell's Olympic Theater, and made his first ap- 

 pearance, under the name of Mr. Raymond, as the 

 count in the opera of "Amalie," Oct. 2, 1842. 

 In the summer of 1843 he made a voyage to the 

 Mediterranean, returning to Boston in 1844. The 

 discovery of gold in California attracted him to 

 that country, and in June, 1849, he arrived in San 

 Francisco. Here he inaugurated his career as an 

 entertainer by giving a concert in a schoolhouse, 

 June 22, 1849, the first public entertainment ever 

 given in the city. He had for some time been engaged 

 in writing humorous sketches for the press under 

 the name of Jeems Pipes. He continued this 

 work on the Pacific coast, and, having acquired 

 some lots among the sand hills on the outskirts of 

 the town, he built himself a shanty and gave his 

 estate the name of Pipesville. He remained for 

 several ye;irs on the Pacific coast, and made a 

 small fortune by his amusing musical and humor- 

 ous concerts. From California he made a tour of 

 the world, going to Australia, India, and the Cape 

 of Good Hope. He was well received in England, 

 and made a great many friends in London. His 

 wit and vivacious conversation made him a desirable 

 quisition to the best circles of literary and artis- 

 ic life. He returned to the United States in the 

 rly '70's, and thenceforward made his home in 

 ew York, where he lived quietly in retirement, 

 ven to his last days he continued his favorite 

 ork of song composition. He published his auto- 

 iography under the title " Drifting About'' (New 

 York, 1863). 



Mather, Margaret, actress, born near Toronto, 

 anada, Oct. 21, 1859 ; died in Charlestown, 

 Va,, April 7, 1898. She was the daughter of a 

 Scotch ship carpenter named John Finlayson, and 

 ook the name of her mother's family for profes- 

 ional use. Her childhood was passed in great pov- 

 rty in Detroit, Mich., where her father and mother 

 ept a sailor's boarding house, and where even as a 



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child she contributed to the meager income of the 

 family by selling newspapers in the street. When 

 twelve years old she attended a public school in 

 New York city for a few months from the house of 

 an elder sister. In 1877 she began to study for the 

 stage, and filled an engagement with a traveling 

 company under the name of Miss Bloomer. In 

 1878 she was engaged in the company supporting 

 George Edgar, and made her first appearance 

 therewith as Cordelia in "King Lear," in Provi- 

 dence, R. I., under the name of Margaret Mather. 

 In June, 1881, she made the acquaintance of J. M. 

 Hill, an enterprising manager, who, after witnessing 

 her work, engaged her on a six-year contract, one 

 of the conditions of which was that she was to retire 

 from the stage and devote herself to study for a 

 year at her manager's direction and expense. She 

 spent that year in reading and preparation at the 

 house of John Habberton, the author, near New York. 

 On Aug. 28, 1882, Miss Mather made her debut as a 

 star under Mr. Hill's management as Juliet at Mc- 

 Vicker's Theater, Chicago. Her success was rather 

 the result of general curiosity than the effect of 

 personal talents ; it was some time before the 

 crudeness of her methods became toned to smooth- 

 ness of expression. After two seasons of touring, 

 during which Miss Mather added Pauline in "'I lie 

 Lady of Lyons," Leah in " Leah the Forsaken." 

 Juliana in " The Honeymoon," and Rosalind in "As 

 You Like It," to her repertoire, Mr. Hill leased the 

 Union Square Theater in New York city for the 

 season of 1885-'86, and opened it on Oct 13, 1885. 

 with a sumptuous revival of " Romeo and Juliet." 

 with Miss Mather as Juliet. The play was kept on 

 the stage there seventeen weeks, at a loss of $22, 

 532.95 (according to Mr. Hill's subsequent testimony 

 in court); but the investment was good, as the coun- 

 try for several seasons paid 'liberally to see what 

 had infatuated New York according to the ad- 

 vertisements. In January, 1886, Miss Mather 

 played Leah at the Union Square, closing her en- 

 gagement at that house in February with Juliana 

 in "The Honeyinoon." She then began a very 

 profitable succession of engagements "on the road." 

 On Feb. 15. 1887, in Buffalo, N. Y., she married 

 Emil Haberkorn, a musician, leader of the orchestra 

 at the Union Square Theater, in New York. She 

 then continued her tours, sometimes under her hus- 

 band's management, and again under that of others. 

 On Jan. 1, 1889, she made her first appearance as 

 Peg Woffington at Niblo's Garden, New York. 

 The Columbus Theater, One Hundred and Twenty- 

 fifth Street, New York, was opened by her Oct. 11. 

 1890, with a performance of "Romeo and Juliet." 

 On Nov. 24, 1890, she first played Imogen in 

 "Cymbeline " at the same house. An adaptation 

 of Jules Barbier's " Jeanne d'Arc," which Bern- 

 hardt was then playing in Paris, was produced by 

 her at the Fifth Avenue Theater, Dec. 8, 1890. 

 Her performance of the heroic Joan did not satisfy 

 the metropolitan taste, but she kept the play in her 

 " road " repertoire. She married, on July 26, 1892, 

 Gustave Pabst, son of a wealthy Milwaukee brewer, 

 and on Dec. 10 of the same year retired from the 

 stage to reside with her husband and his family in 

 Milwaukee, She was divorced from Mr. Pabst in 

 October, 1896, and in January, 1897, returned to 

 the stage as Imogen in a fine production of " Cym- 

 beline "at Wallack's Theater, New York. While 

 playing that part, on the stage of the theater, she 

 was stricken with her fatal illness. 



Matthews, Claude, politician, born in Bethel, 

 Ky., Dec. 14, 1845 ; died in Indianapolis, Intl., Aug. 

 28, 1898. He was graduated at Center College. 

 Danville, Ky., in 1867, and in 1869 went to Ver- 

 milion County. Intl., where he devoted his time to 

 farming and cattle raising. He organized the first 



