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Cornelius Mathews was born on October 28, 1817 in Port Chester, New York. He was the second son of Abijah and Catherine (Van Cott) Mathews. He was descended from Annanias Mathews an early settler in Long Island.
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Cornelius Mathews was born on October 28, 1817 in Port Chester, New York. He was the second son of Abijah and Catherine (Van Cott) Mathews. He was descended from Annanias Mathews an early settler in Long Island.
During the years 1830-32 he was enrolled in Columbia College, but in the fall of 1832 he matriculated at the University of the City of New York (now New York University), which had just opened for instruction, and in July 1834 he received his A. B. degree at the first Commencement of the new university, delivering an oration on "Females of the American Revolution. " He was, apparently, related to the first chancellor of the University, Rev. James M. Mathews; this relationship may have had some connection with his transfer from Columbia to the new university. His membership in the college literary society, the Adelphic, which published a magazine (under the inspiration of Professor Henry B. Tappan, afterward chancellor of the University of Michigan), may possibly have affected his later career.
To please his father he studied law and in 1837 was admitted to the New York bar, but he soon abandoned this profession and turned to literary production and editorial work. He had since 1836 contributed regularly to the American Monthly Magazine, the New York Review, and the Knickerbocker Magazine articles in both prose and verse, mostly humorous in character. In 1839 appeared his first romance, Behemoth: a Legend of the Mound Builders, an imaginative story of which it can at least be said that the plot is original. In 1840, with his friend Evert A. Duyckinck, he founded and edited a monthly magazine, Arcturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion, of which three volumes appeared, and in which Mathews wrote numerous articles, mostly critical, but including a novel, "The Career of Puffer Hopkins" (June 1841 - May 1842) on the theme of New York politics. He had already turned to the drama, and in 1840 brought out The Politicians, a comedy on New York electioneering life, which had no success. In 1846 his tragedy, Witchcraft, or the Martyrs of Salem, met with unusual success, and was even translated into French. Its blank verse is often excellent, and it possesses considerable dramatic power. Two other plays, Jacob Leisler (1848), a tragedy, and False Pretences (1855), a satire on social parvenus, met a less popular response. His Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic, published in 1843, was favorably received by critics, especially by James Russell Lowell, whose remarks upon them in the Fable for Critics "(which contain many verses as fine, by the bye As any that lately came under my eye)" give Mathews today perhaps his chief claim to fame. Lowell, be it added, has several other less complimentary references to Mathews in the Fable for Critics, particularly with regard to the copyright issue and in association with E. A. Duyckinck. Perhaps the reader of today will best sympathize with Lowell's caustic judgment of Yankee Doodle, a comic magazine edited by Mathews in 1846-47: "That American Punch, like the English, no doubt, Just the sugar and lemons and spirit left out. " After 1855 he published little. The Indian Fairy Book, which was compiled by Mathews from material supplied by Henry R. Schoolcraft, is the only book to bear his name. It was issued first in 1856 and was republished in later editions, in 1877 as The Enchanted Moccassins. Mathews appears, however, to have continued his association with the world of journalism and after 1882 was regularly until his death a contributing editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror.
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Mathews in his earlier years, at any rate, was a vigorous nationalist in his literary ideals and insisted that the United States needed a literature which should not be imitative of Europe, but original and American in its essence. At the same time he was always an enthusiastic champion of international copyright, and welcomed the occasion of speaking on that topic at the dinner given to Charles Dickens in 1842. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, also, found his friendship of assistance in first securing American attention to her verse.
He never married.