Hansen also claims that most negative impressions of Cotton Mather stem from his defense of the ongoing trials in Wonders of the Invisible World.

In 2005, Shona Seifert and Thomas Early, two former directors of Ogilvy & Mather, were convicted of one count of conspiring to defraud the government and nine counts of filing false claims for Ogilvy over-billing advertising work done for the U. S. Office of National Drug Control Policy account.

" Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather ; none more clearly exemplified it.

Despite the fact that Increase Mather did not support the trials, Cotton Mather documented them ( Hovey 531-2 ).

Speak out he did: " The battle between these two prestigious adversaries and Mather lasted far longer than the epidemic itself, and the literature accompanying the controversy was both vast and venomous.

People did not have to choose one or the other and in Biblia Americana Mather looked at the Bible through a scientific perspective, the complete opposite of when he wrote The Christian Philosopher, in which he decided to approach science in a religious manner ( Smolinski 280-281 ).

His rule did not begin auspiciously, since a number of Massachusetts magistrates who had been named to his council refused to serve, and he was unable to reconcile with Increase Mather, who refused to see him.

According to Albright, Lane was not a conservationist, but did not care to interfere in the decisions of his officials, and so let Mather and Albright have free rein.

Blathwayt continued to support him, as did Increase Mather, but this was not enough to overcome the many complaints lodged against him.

Cotton Mather even suppressed the accusations made by Glover as he did not believe they could be trusted.

On the right at the hotel entrance there is a Tyrolean style Stuberl with the signatures, written on the ceiling, of the team that did the first ascent of Everest in 1953 and of the successful first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955, these include Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Sir John Hunt, Charles Evans, George Band, Joe Brown, John Angelo Jackson, Wilfred Noyce, Tony Streather, Tom Mackinnon, Norman Hardie, Neil Mather, John Clegg and others including Noel Odell from Mallory's 1924 expedition and Chris Bonington of later successes.

The venture did not last long, but it is possible that Mather may have met future associates such as Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Bill Tilghman, who also tried their hand at hunting.

The gunfight also resulted in Dave Mather being wounded by a bullet that grazed his head, and it has been reported that his brother was killed, but in fact he did not die until 1933.

In 1910 Mather sailed to Shanghai, then moved up the Yangtze river to attend the Anqing language school.

Mather was influential in the construction of the court for the trials from the beginning.

Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).

Bancroft notes that Mather considered witches " among the poor, and vile, and ragged beggars upon Earth ," and Bancroft asserts that Mather considered the people against the witch trials to be witch advocates.

In the years after the trials, Cotton Mather remained unrepentant for his role.

William Stoughton, Mather wrote Wonders of the Invisible World written during the trials and published in 1693.

The book contained a few of Mather ’ s sermons, the conditions of the colony and a description of witch trials in Europe.

Calef's book was inspired by the fear that Mather would succeed in once again stirring up new witchcraft trials, and the need to bear witness to the horrible experiences of New Englanders in 1692.

Hansen claimed Mather acted as a moderating influence in the trials by opposing the death penalty for those who confessed — or feigned confession — such as Tituba and Dorcas Good.

After others had lamented the roles they played in the executions of nineteen and imprisonment of hundreds, Mather remained the chief defender of the trials, which diminishes the view of him as a moderate influence.

Larry Gragg highlights Mather ’ s cloudy thinking and confusion between sympathy for the possessed, and the boundlessness of spectral evidence when Mather stated, “ the devil have sometimes represented the shapes of persons not only innocent, but also the very virtuous .” And writing in the early 1980s, John Demos seemed to consider Mather a moderating influence on the trials.

The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft ( 1689 ) and the Salem witch trials held 1692-3 in Salem, Massachusetts.

September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.

Mather quickly completed his account of the trials Wonders of the Invisible World and it was given to Phips when he returned from the fighting in Maine in early October.

Increase Mather and other ministers sent a letter to the Court, " The Return of Several Ministers Consulted ," urging the magistrates not to convict on spectral evidence alone ( spectral evidence was later ruled inadmissible, which caused a dramatic reduction in the rate of convictions and may have hastened the end of the trials ).

:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.

Chadwick Hansen ’ s Witchcraft at Salem, published in 1969, defined Mather as a positive influence on the Salem Trials.

* Upham, Charles Wentworth Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather, A Reply Morrisania, N. Y. 1869 http :// www. gutenberg. org / files / 26978 / 26978-h / 26978-h. htm

The practice had been known in Boston since 1706, when Cotton Mather ( of Salem witch trial fame ) discovered that his slave, Onesimus had been inoculated while still in Africa and that many slaves imported to Boston had also received inoculations.

" In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's play Giles Corey of the Salem Farms, Hathorne is shown debating Cotton Mather on the nature of witchcraft and presiding over hearings in which Giles Corey refuses to enter a plea.

Increase Mather became an opponent of spectral evidence-though not until after the Salem hangings had taken place, and not on the basis that it was false testimony by witnesses, but that it might be a deception by demons.

Bradstreet died at his home in Salem on 27 March 1697 at the age of 93 ; due to his advanced age he was called the " Nestor of New England " by Cotton Mather.

The tale spread, and the fervour brought Beelzebub to North America, where the witch-hunting Cotton Mather was the unseen villain of the Salem Witch Trials.

There, he meets Cotton Mather of the Salem Witch Trials, Tomas de Torquemada of the Spanish Inquisition, and other famous inquisitors from history, who, despite their reputations as shrewd and conniving characters, call themselves " mere untutored novices " compared to the Senator.

Rosenthal suggests that Mather might have had guilty feelings — feigned or not — for choosing not to restrain the judges during the trial, though he was in the best position to do so.

Mather is the Harvard house farthest from Harvard Yard to the southeast, though the school provides shuttle service from its courtyard every ten minutes during the schoolday.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

" Upham's book runs to almost 1, 000 pages and a quick search of the name Mather ( referring to either father, son, or ancestors ) shows that it occurs only 96 times ; Poole's critique, in book form, runs less than 70 pages but the name " Mather " occurs many times that.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

According to Cotton Mather, Comenius was asked by Winthrop to be the President of Harvard University, this being more plausibly John Winthrop the Younger than his father since the junior Winthrop was in England ; but Comenius moved to Sweden instead.

He was the son of Richard Mather, and the father of Cotton Mather, both influential Puritan ministers.

Among the Bostonians buried here are the original owner, William Copp, his children, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Robert Newman ( the patriot who placed the signal lanterns in the steeple of Old North Church for Paul Revere's midnight ride to Lexington and Concord ), Prince Hall ( the father of Black Freemasonry ), and many unmarked graves of the African Americans who lived in the " New Guinea " community at the foot of the hill.

Mather went into railway service like his father.

Yet in 1586, four years earlier, the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: " Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young ".

He bore the same name as his grandfather ( 1763 – 1819 ), pastor at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, from 1785 to 1819, and his father ( 1787 – 1873 ), pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1873 ( except the years 1831-1836 ), both prominent Congregational ministers, who were descendants of Richard Mather.

He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston divines.

Mather started working for the Pacific Coast Borax Company at its headquarters in New York, where his father was administrator.

After seeing the manual, Ogilvy's older brother Francis Ogilvy-the father of actor Ian Ogilvy-showed the manual to management at the London advertising agency Mather & Crowther where he was working.

Shawcross's father was the politician, lawyer, Chief British Prosecutor at Nuremberg and life peer Hartley Shawcross, his mother Joan Winifred Mather, who died in a riding accident on the Sussex Downs in 1974.

According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were on the James, the following was recorded ;

John Cotton Smith's father was Cotton Mather Smith, a Puritan minister who moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut.