• Thomas Mather (1795-1853) was an American politician in Illinois who served in the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. Thomas Mather...
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    Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park...
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    Scopes to Kirtley F. Mather, January 24, 1927, Denison University Archives, 12P MI Box 19, K. B. Bork Biography of Kirtley Mather, "Scopes, John T./Scopes...
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    State funeral of Abraham Lincoln (category 1865 in Illinois)
    the location of the burial to Mather Block, she remained firm in her decision. A large number of Illinois politicians were in Washington when Lincoln...
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  • January 2, 1826, he was elected Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to replace Thomas Mather who resigned to take a job to locate a military...
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  • (1929–1932) William Mather Lewis, mayor of Lake Forest (1915–1917); president of George Washington and Lafayette Universities Thomas J. Moran, Chief Justice...
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    Plainfield is a village in Will and Kendall counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 44,762 at the 2020 census. The village includes land...
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    the Illinois General Assembly. In 1837, Lincoln moved to Springfield, where he lived and worked for the next 24 years as a lawyer and politician. Lincoln...
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  • Ira Silverstein (category Mather High School alumni)
    teacher.[citation needed] Silverstein attended Boone Elementary School and Mather High School and then earned his bachelor's degree from Loyola University...
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    helped organize Illinois' first anti-slavery society, Yale graduate; married Isabella Jones Mary Foote Beecher (1805–1900), married Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870)...
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