Mather set the moral tone in the colonies, and sounded the call for second-and third-generation Puritans, whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America, to return to the theological roots of Puritanism.

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 was not known for writing in a neutral, unbiased perspective.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

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

“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.

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 ).

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

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

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

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.

Some historians who have examined the life of Cotton Mather after Chadwick Hansen ’ s book also seem to yearn for a positive view of Cotton Mather.

The name was chosen from many suggested by Ogilvy and Mather ; it being the name least rejected.

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.

The Mather and Jinks approach is more " genetical " than Fisher's, being based on variances arising straight-forwardly from homozygotes and heterozygotes.

" This was the flaxen-haired blue-eyed William Ernest Mather ( 1877 – 99 )-second son of Sir William Mather-a pupil of his at Rydal Mount School 1888-90, who died young after being thrown from his horse A photograph of Nicholson with Ernest, taken at Llandudno in June 1889, was published in The Book Collector ( Summer 1978 ).

The Lime Spiders were formed in 1979 by Mick Blood, who cites their influences as being 1960s garage bands with psychedelic rock, together with Darryl Mather, Eric Grothe and Dave Guest.

Mather, a self-made millionaire and member of the Sierra Club, had written Lane a bitter letter in late 1914, complaining that the national parks were being exploited for private profit.

He worked as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson ( being responsible for one classic campaign, Horlicks for night starvation ) and at Ogilvy, Benson & Mather.

However, one of these, B-17C 40-2047, crashed while being ferried from Salt Lake City, UT, to Mather Army Air Base, CA, on November 2, 1941.

Having worked as a chef, researcher, and farmer, Ogilvy now started his own advertising agency with the backing of Mather and Crowther, the London agency being run by his elder brother, Francis, which later acquired another London agency, S. H.

He was named All-American in both 1927 and 1928 and was a member of Michigan's first back-to-back Western conference champions under E. J. Mather during the 1925 – 26 and 1926 – 27 seasons ( the latter being Michigan's first outright champion and Oosterbaan's first basketball All-American selection ).

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.

First to be delivered in 1839 were those from Mather Dixon, with ' Tamworth ' being used for the inaugural run.

Although Cotton Mather and Dr. Boylston were able to demonstrate the efficacy of the practice, the debate over inoculation would continue even beyond the epidemic of 1721-22.

Through grants from federal, state and private entities, the college has been able to improve the energy-efficiency of the Dining Hall, Dalrymple, Mather and the Admissions building since 2008, with plans to work on student residences in the future.

As railroads eliminated freight cars out of their own fleets, leasing companies such as Mather were able to step in and supply freight cars as needed.

Most had religious objections to variolation, but Mather was able to convince Dr. Zabdiel Boylston to experiment with inoculation.

* Emigrants from Liverpool, with reference to Richard Mather

By July 1716, Mather had read an endorsement of inoculation by Dr. Emanuel Timonius of Constantinople in the Philosophical Transactions.

Mather then declared, in a letter to Dr. John Woodward of Gresham College in London, that he planned to press Boston's doctors to adopt the practice of inoculation should smallpox reach the colony again.

On June 6, 1721, Mather sent an abstract of reports on inoculation by Timonius and Jacobus Pylarinus to local physicians, urging them to consult about the matter.

Cotton Mather strongly challenged the perception that inoculation was against the will of God and argued that the procedure was not outside of Puritan principles.

Mather, a prominent Boston minister, had heard a description of the African practice of inoculation from his Sudanese slave, Onesimus, in 1706, but had been previously unable to convince local physicians to attempt the procedure.

In 1721, Cotton Mather conducted the first attempt at recording the speech of slaves in his interviews regarding the practice of small-pox inoculation.

One of the first documented " ideas " of vaccinations was in 1721 when Reverend Cotton Mather introduced inoculation to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1721 smallpox epidemic.

Mather directly quotes Proclus in a five-line quotation about the purposes for reading the Psalms.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

Mather reported that, from his view, " none that have used it ever died of the Small Pox, tho at the same time, it were so malignant, that at least half the People died, that were infected With it in the Common way.

Later, with Robert Calef's observation of Mather's dealings with Margaret Rule, it became seen as the latter, with Mather perceived as drawing information from her through leading questions, and possibly having a prurient interest -- " Smutty " in Mather's words — in his intimate dealings with afflicted young women.

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

Biblia Americana is incredibly large and Mather worked on it from 1693 – 1728, when he died.

Mather also took inspiration from Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a philosophical novel by Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail ( whom he refers to as " Abubekar "), a 12th-century Islamic philosopher.

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

In its final life, Mills Station has been restored as a community center at the Mather Field / Mills Light Rail Station approximately 1000 feet from its original location.

Her captivity narrative and subsequent escape and revenge upon her captors caught the attention of Cotton Mather, who wrote about her, and she also demanded from the colonial leaders the reward per Indian scalp.

This third version was constructed by stonemasons Mather and Ellis from Trafford Park, and the second was put into storage.

* 1980: Joel Brinkley, reporter and Jay Mather, photographer of Louisville Courier-Journal, " for stories from Cambodia.

Mather illustrates how the Goodwins ' eldest child had been tempted by the devil and stole linen from the washerwoman Mary Glover.

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.

The trail crosses six mountain passes in excess of ; from north to south, they are: Donohue Pass, Muir Pass, Mather Pass, Pinchot Pass, Glen Pass, and Forester Pass.

His play Leah the Forsaken, adapted from the Deborah of Hermann Salomon Mosenthal, was a star vehicle for Margaret Mather.

Stephen Mather, a Club member from Chicago and an opponent of Hetch Hetchy dam, became the first National Park Service director.