Hiram F. Mather
Hiram Foote Mather(February 13, 1796Colchester,New London County, Connecticut- July 11, 1868Chicago,Illinois) was an American lawyer and politician fromNew York.
Life[edit]
He was the son of Gibbons Mather (1760–1815) and Hannah (Foote) Mather (1766–1844). He graduated fromYale Collegein 1813. Then he studied theology atAndover Seminary,but abandoned this after two years, and studied law atAuburn, New Yorkinstead. He was admitted to the bar in 1819, and practiced inElbridge,Onondaga County, New York.
On April 8, 1821, he married Sarah Anne Hyde (1800–1824), and they had two children. On November 26, 1831, he married Mary Parsons Cole (1806–1855), and they had eight children.
He was anAnti-Masonicmember of theNew York State Senate(7th D.) from 1829 to 1832, sitting in the52nd,53rd,54thand55th New York State Legislatures.
In 1844, he removed toNiles, Michigan,and in 1853 to Chicago. On October 15, 1857, he married Anna T. Norton.
He was buried at the Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles, MI.
Sources[edit]
- The New York Civil Listcompiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 128f and 143; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- Death of Hon. Hiram F. Matherin NYT on July 14, 1868
- Obituary Record of Yale Graduates (who died 1867-68)(pg. 267) [gives wrong death date "July 12" ]
- Mather genealogy
External links[edit]
- 1796 births
- 1868 deaths
- People from Colchester, Connecticut
- Yale College alumni
- People from Elbridge, New York
- New York (state) state senators
- Anti-Masonic Party politicians from New York (state)
- 19th-century American legislators
- People from Niles, Michigan
- Lawyers from Chicago
- Andover Newton Theological School alumni
- 19th-century American lawyers