Gilbert De La Matyr
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Gilbert De La Matyr (July 8, 1825 - May 17, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born in Pharsalia, New York, De La Matyr pursued an academic course. He was a graduate of the theological course of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1854. Itinerant elder in that church. He served as member of the general conference in 1868, and for one term filled the office of presiding elder. During the Civil War helped enlist the Eighth Regiment of New York Heavy Artillery in 1862, and was its chaplain for three years. After holding pastorates in several large cities he settled in Indianapolis, Indiana, and continued his ministerial duties.
De La Matyr was elected as a National candidate to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress. He moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1881 and again engaged in preaching. Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Akron, Ohio, from 1889 until his death in that city May 17, 1892. He was interred in Mount Albion Cemetery, Albion, New York.
