William Arden Maury

American lawyer and politician

William Arden Maury (July 29, 1832 – June 16, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as United States Assistant Attorney General from 1889 to 1893. He was a distant relative to Matthew Fontaine Maury and married his eldest daughter. Note too that they both worked in "Washington City" as it was then called.

Born Washington, D.C., to John Walker Maury and Isabel Foyles, he attended Harvard Law School.^[1]

References

^ Trimpi, Helen P. (2010). Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South. Univ. of Tennessee Press. pp. 368–369. ISBN 978-1572336827.

Maury family tree

Matthew Maury, immigrant
- James Maury (1718–1769)
  - Mathew Maury (1744–1808)
    - Matthew Hawes Maury (1777–1860)
      - Matthew Henry Maury (1815-1858)
        Mason Maury (1848-1919) architect
      - Reuben F. Maury (1824–1906), Oregon Union army colonel
  - James Maury (1746–1840), one of the first United States diplomats
    - William Morris Maury, m. Sarah Mytton, English author
      - Mytton Maury (b. 1839), m. Virginia Draper, daughter of scientist John William Draper and sister of scientists Henry Draper and John Christopher Draper
        Antonia Maury (1866–1952), astronomer & Carlotta J. Maury paleontologist.
  - Walker Maury (1752–1788)
    - William Grymes Maury
      - John Walker Maury (1809–1855), Mayor of Washington, D.C.
        William Arden Maury (1832–1918), U.S. Assistant Attorney General
      - William Lewis Maury (1813–1878), Naval officer
  - Fontaine Maury (1761–1824)
    - Eliza Maury (b. 1793)
    - Richard Brooke Maury (b. 1794)
      - Rev. Thompson Brooke Maury
        Richard Fontaine Maury (1882–1950), railway engineer
  - Richard Maury (1766–1843)
    - John Minor Maury (1795–1824), m. Eliza Maury, his first cousin, daughter of Fontaine Maury
      - Dabney Herndon Maury (1822–1900), Confederate general and brother William Lewis Maury (1818-1838)<-See Recollections..->
    - Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), oceanographer, astronomer
- Abraham Maury (b. 1731), m. Susanna Poindexter, a cousin of George Poindexter
  - Abraham "Abram" Maury, Jr. (b. 1766), Major, Tennessee state legislator
    - Abram Poindexter Maury (1801–1848), U.S. Representative from Tennessee