| Philip Mauro | |
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| Born | (1859-01-07)January 7, 1859 St. Louis, Missouri, US |
| Died | April 7, 1952(1952-04-07) (aged 93) Staunton, Virginia, US |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis |
Philip Mauro (January 7, 1859 – April 7, 1952) was an American lawyer and author.
Biography
Mauro was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a lawyer who practiced before the Supreme Court, a patent attorney, and a Christian writer. He prepared briefs for the Scopes Trial. His works include God's Pilgrims, Life in the Word, The Church, The Churches and the Kingdom, The Hope of Israel, Ruth, The Satisfied Stranger, The Wonders of Bible Chronology, The World and its God, The Last Call to the Godly Remnant, More Than a Prophet, Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion, Evolution at the Bar and Of Things Which Soon Must Come to Pass.
In his 1921 work, The Seventy Weeks: And the Great Tribulation, Mauro argued that Herod the Great was the "wilful king" of Daniel 11:36.
Mauro was a creationist and authored an anti-evolution book entitled Evolution at the Bar (1922).
He married Emily Johnston Rockwood in 1882 and had two daughters, Margaret Frances Mauro (1882–1948) and Isabel Rockwood Mauro (later Mrs. Charles Stratton French). Together with his daughter Margaret, Mauro was a passenger on the British ocean liner RMS Carpathia when it rescued the passengers of the Titanic in April 1912.
Philip Mauro died in Staunton, Virginia on April 7, 1952, and was buried at Masonic Cemetery in Culpeper.
References
- "Philip Mauro". Plymouth Brethren Archive. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- Alexander, Jon. (1983). American Personal Religious Accounts, 1600-1980: Toward an Inner History of America's Faiths. E. Mellen Press. p. 267
- McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989). Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity. University of California, Los Angeles.
- "Carpathia Passenger's Titanic Sermon". Hull Daily Mail. May 30, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Philip Mauro, Attorney and Scholar, Succumbs". The Culpeper Exponent. April 10, 1952. p. 4. Retrieved October 15, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Philip Mauro at Find a Grave
- Works by Philip Mauro at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
