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Mary McNair Mathews (1834-1903) was a Nevada historian. Her memoir and early chronicle of life in Virginia City Nevada Ten Years in Nevada or Life on the Pacific Coast was published in 1880. She was born in Livingston County New York in 1834 Widowed early and learning of her brother’s death in Virginia City she sold her hoop skirt factory and left for Nevada in 1869 with her young son.