Philip Mauro

Philip Mauro (January 7, 1859 – April 7, 1952) was an American lawyer and author.[1][2]

Philip Mauro
Born(1859-01-07)January 7, 1859
St. Louis, Missouri
Died1952
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis

Biography

Mauro was born in St. Louis, Missouri.[3] He was a lawyer who practiced before the Supreme Court, patent lawyer and also 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).[4]

He married Emily Johnston Rockwood in 1882 and had two daughters, Margaret F. Mauro 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.

References
  1. "Books by Philip Mauro -=- Schoettle Publishing Company, Inc". Schoettlepublishing.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  2. "Philip Mauro (1859-1952) Study Archive". Preteristarchive.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
  3. Alexander, Jon. (1983). American Personal Religious Accounts, 1600-1980: Toward an Inner History of America's Faiths. E. Mellen Press. p. 267
  4. McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989). Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity. University of California, Los Angeles.
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