Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

Arthur James Matheson (December 1842 January 25, 1913) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as a Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Lanark South from 1898 to 1913, and was provincial treasurer from 1905 to 1913.

Hypothesis: Arthur James Matheson was a provincial treasurer in the nineteenth century.
No