Mathias J. Alten (1871 - 1938)

Artist. He was an impressionistic painter who lived most of his life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He ground all of his own paints, which gave his paintings a rich hue that could not be duplicated. He used a palette knife to highlight his paintings. He painted portraits, still-life, landscapes, and seascapes.  Family links:  Spouse:  Bertha […]

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 - 1884)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (April 3, 1817 – November 25, 1884) was a German feminist, socialist, and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. Born Mathilde Franziska Giesler, her first marriage to Alfred von Tabouillot, a rich wine merchant, ended in divorce. The ensuing custody battle over the children influenced her feminist views greatly. She later married Fritz […]

Mati Klarwein (1932 - 2002)

Painter. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. During World War II, his family fled to Palestine and later to Paris, where he studied with Anton Fuchs and Fernand Leger. Klarwein won international success when his painting “Annunciation” was used by Santana for the cover image of their second album, “Abraxas” (1970). Klarwein then designed the […]

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898)

Matilda Gage spent her childhood in a house which was used as a station of the Underground Railroad. She faced prison for her actions under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 which criminalized assistance to escaped slaves. Even though she was beset by both financial and physical (cardiac) problems throughout her life, her work for […]

Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (1899 - 1969)

Actress. Member of a long family of stage and screen actors. She was born and died in Madrid (Spain). She developed her career on Stage and Screen. On stage, she appeared in “La Novia de Reverte (1933), “Casi un Cuento de Hadas” (1953) or “El Patio” (1953). In 1918, she married to actor Rafael Bardem […]

Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (1899 - 1969)

Actress. Member of a long family of stage and screen actors. She was born and died in Madrid (Spain). She developed her career on Stage and Screen. On stage, she appeared in “La Novia de Reverte (1933), “Casi un Cuento de Hadas” (1953) or “El Patio” (1953). In 1918, she married to actor Rafael Bardem […]

Matt Hobden (1993 - 2016)

As a youngster, Matt Hobden played for Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club; in 2009, he was part of the team that won the National Village Cricket Knockout Final at Lord’s. In 2012, Hobden started playing for Preston Nomads Cricket Team, and was part of the team that won the 2012 Sussex Premier League. Hobden’s last […]

Matthew “Stymie” Beard, Jr (1925 - 1981)

Actor. A popular member of “The Little Rascals”, he played ‘Stymie’ in 36 “Our Gang” shorts from 1930 to 1935. One of 14 children born to a Los Angeles, California minister, in the summer of 1930 his parents brought him to an open call at Hal Roach Studios, where they were on a talent search […]

Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

Poet. Author of the well-known poems “Dover Beach”, “Sohrab and Rustum” and “The Scholar Gipsy”. He also was a critic and essayist. Died of heart disease. Buried with his son at All Saint’s Church, Laleham, England. (bio by: David Conway)  Family links:  Parents:  Thomas Arnold (1795 – 1842)  Siblings:  Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)  Thomas […]

Matthew Cowles (1944 - 2014)

Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright. Matthew Cowles is the son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City. In 1980, he married actress [Kathleen Dezina], his All My Children co-star. In 1983 he married actress Christine Baranski with whom he had two […]

Matthew Garber (1956 - 1977)

Actor. Born in London, England, he was a British child performer most noted for the role of Michael Banks in the Disney classic movie, “Mary Poppins” (1964). He began his career on the stage and also appeared in the films “The Three Lives of Thomasina” (1963), “The Gnome-Mobile” (1967) and on the TV series “Walt […]

Matthew Harris Jouett (1788 - 1827)

Artist. Portrait painter. Attributed painter of 334 portraits and miniatures. Subjects included Marquis de LaFayette, Henry Clay, Gen. George Rogers Clark, Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby and Virginia Governor James McDowell. His father was Capt. John “Jack” Jouett Jr. who has been called the “Paul Revere of the South,” as he delivered warnings that the British […]

Matthew James Boylen (1907 - 1970)

Prospector. Although never having completed grade school, he was awarded three honorary degrees including a Doctorate of Civil Law from the University of New Brunswick. He established Brunswick Mining and Smeltering Corporation and Advocate Mines. He was also a renowned thoroughbred raiser.  Family links:  Spouse:  Dorothy Pearson Boylen (1910 – 1986)*  Children:  James Anthony Boylen […]

Matthew Shepard (1976 - 1998)

Matthew Wayne “Matt” Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998. Matthew Shepard died six days later at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, […]

Matthew Webb (1848 - 1883)

Matthew Webb was born at Dawley, Telford, in Shropshire, one of twelve children of a Coalbrookdale doctor. He acquired his ability to swim in the River Severn at Coalbrookdale. In 1860, at the age of twelve, he joined the training ship HMS Conway for two years, then entered the merchant navy and served a three-year […]

Matthew Wrinkles (1960 - 2009)

Matthew Wrinkles A convicted multiple murderer, sentenced to death. He served 14 years at Indiana State Prison located in Michigan City, Indiana, where he was also executed on December 11, 2009.  On July 21, 1994, Wrinkles murdered his wife, Debra Jean Wrinkles, his brother-in-law Tony Fulkerson, and Fulkerson’s wife, Natalie Fulkerson, at their residence in […]

Matthias Grunewald (1970 - 1528)

Painter. A master of the late German Gothic period, celebrated for his multi-panel Isenheim Altarpiece (1510 to 1516), with its incomparable depictions of Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection. Accounts of Grunewald’s  life are scanty and contradictory. From 1501 to 1521 he had a workshop in Seligenstadt; he died in Halle sometime between 1528 and 1532. Of […]

Matthias William Baldwin (1795 - 1866)

Business Magnate, Inventor, Abolitionist. The son of a carriage maker, he was interested in mechanical things. At 16 he worked for a series of jewelers in Philadelphia. During that time he invented a process for gold plating jewelry. Later, he opened his own business. When the jewelry trade went into recession, he started a bookbinding […]

Mattie Blaylock (1850 - 1888)

Mattie Blaylock was born Celia Ann Blaylock in Monroe Township, Johnson County, Iowa, near Fairfax, Iowa, to Henry Blaylock and Elizabeth “Betsy” Vance. She was their third child and second daughter. The family lived on a small farm that Henry had obtained in 1846. Henry and his wife were stern parents and adhered to the […]

Mattie Eliza Howard Coleman (1870 - 1942)

Missionary, Suffragist. Born in Tennessee, in 1870, she was one of the first African American women to become a physician graduating from Meharry Medical College. Active in religious rights and freedoms, she married R.J. Coleman, a CME minister in the Tennessee Conference in the early 1900s. She organized a women’s bible forum and was the […]

Matty Alou (1938 - 2011)

Major League Baseball Player. For fifteen seasons (1960 to 1974), he played at the outfielder position with the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees and San Diego Padres. He was the middle sibling (Felipe, Matty and Jesus) of the Alou Brothers, who each became accomplished Major League players. […]

Matty Malneck (1903 - 1981)

Matty Malneck (December 9, 1903 – February 25, 1981) was an American jazz bandleader, violinist, violist and songwriter. Malneck’s first professional gigs as a violinist began when he was age 16. He worked with Paul Whiteman from 1926 to 1937, and also recorded in the same period with Frank Signorelli, Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and […]

Maud Durbin (1871 - 1936)

Actress. Born in Moberly, Missouri, she was a popular New York stage performer when she made her debut in the silent film “The Ne’er To Return Road” (1913), which she was the screen writer for. She appeared in “Tom’s Little Star” (1919) and the remake of “The Ne’er To Return Road” (1921). She was also […]

Maud Humphrey Bogart (1865 - 1940)

Artist. Mother of motion picture legend, Humphrey Bogart. She was renowned in her own right as a popular artist and illustrator. Her “Humphrey Baby,” a series of watercolors romanticizing infants wearing long curls, period garments, and innocent smiles, was famous in America and throughout the world. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Belmont DeForest […]

Maude “Tillie Doremus” O’Dell (1870 - 1937)

Actress. She appeared in the silent films, “Gambier’s Advocate” (1915) and “Niobe” (1915). (bio by: K)  Family links:  Spouse:  Arthur Lispenard Doremus (____ – 1953)* *Calculated relationship

Maude Adams (1872 - 1953)

Actress. Born Maude Kiskadden in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mormon parents with a theatrical mother, she began her career at the age of nine months, when she was carried on stage by her mother during a Salt Lake City stock company production.  She took speaking roles as soon as she could talk while adopting […]

Maude Adams (1872 - 1953)

Actress. Born Maude Kiskadden in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mormon parents with a theatrical mother, she began her career at the age of nine months, when she was carried on stage by her mother during a Salt Lake City stock company production.  She took speaking roles as soon as she could talk while adopting […]

Maude Eburne (1875 - 1960)

Actress. Eburne started on the stage in Ontario and New York, later appearing on Broadway in 1914, playing a cockney maid. She played comic servants on stage until 1930 then moved to films in 1931. On screen, she played a variety of roles from maids to aristocrats to pipe-smoking harridans. Eburne retired from the screen […]

Maude Fealy (1883 - 1971)

Born Maude Mary Hawk in 1883 in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of actress and acting coach, Margaret Fealy. Her mother remarried to Rafaello Cavallo, the first conductor of the Pueblo, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and Maude Fealy lived in Colorado off and on for most of her life. At the age of three, she performed on […]

Maudie Merrie Prickett (1914 - 1976)

Actress. She appeared in the motion pictures “Call Her Mom” (1972), “Sweet Charity” (1969), “The Gnome-Mobile” (1967), “The Legend of Tom Dooley” (1959), “North By Northwest” (1959), “Lost In Alaska” (1952), “Harvey” (1950) and “Song of Idaho” (1948). She is best known for her roles in many television series, including, “Leave It To Beaver” (1957-1963), […]