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• Birth	13 Feb 1888	Chicago, Cook Co., IL
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 May 1978	Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM
  Buried	4 Jun 1978	Granville, Licking Co., OH
  Person ID	I3552	Mather-Schaffner
  Last Modified	02 Jul 2004
  Father	William Green Mather,   b. 15 Oct 1855, Romeo, Macomb Co., MI ,   d. 7 Nov 1937, Granville, Licking Co., OH
  Mother	Julia Sabrina King,   b. 1 Aug 1860, Jackson, Jackson Co., MI ,   d. 29 Jun 1938, Granville, Licking Co., OH
  Married	8 May 1884	Jackson, Jackson Co., MI
  Family ID	F855	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Marie Porter,   b. 12 May 1889, Lenawee Co., MI ,   d. 17 Sep 1971, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM
  Married	12 Jun 1912
  Children	1. Florence Margaret Mather,   b. 13 Jun 1916, Canada ,   d. 23 Feb 2006, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co., NM   2. Julia Carolyn Mather,   b. 16 Mar 1920, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH ,   d. 15 May 1986, Columbus, Franklin Co., OH   3. Jean Marie Mather
  Family ID	F1770	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Muriel Speare,   b. 14 Aug 1913,   d. 4 Sep 1996, Middlesex Co., MA
  Married	31 May 1977
  Family ID	F2373	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Kirtley Mather was serving as the Chairman of the Department of Geology of Harvard University at the time of the Scopes trial. He offered extensive testimony on how geologists are able to accurately tell the history of various animal and plant life by discovering and researching fossil remains. He testified that in many of the rocks they find, there are fossil remains of both plant and animals that are as old as the rocks from which they are found. Mr. Mather then traced out a chronological time line of the oldest rocks and the fossils found. Mather argued that evolution is not trying to replace religion, but merely serves as another approach to finding out how mankind and the rest of the living world came about. Tompkins, Jerry R., Ed. D-Days at Dayton: Reflections on the Scopes Trial.