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Marble, Edgar M

lawyer, was a resident of Michigan. He was an assistant attorney-general of the United States from 1877 to 1880; and was commissioner of patents in the department of the interior from 1880 to 1884.

Marble, Manton

journalist, author, was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Worcester, Mass. He is a journalist of New York city, editor and proprietor of The World in 1862-76; and was one of the founders of The New York World. He is the author of A Secret Chapter of Political History.

Marble, Milton H

poet, was born March 16, 1839, in Wayne county, Ohio.

He is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

March, Daniel

clergyman, author, was born July 21, 1816, in Millbury, Mass.

He is a congregational clergyman, and the author of Walks and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father's House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Lessons in the Life of Joseph; and Morning Light in Many Lands.

March, Francis Andrew

philologist, author, was born Oct. 25, 1825, in Millbury, Mass. He is a philologist of distinction, professor at Lafayette college from 1856, and the successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American Language association. He is the author of Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the Roman Period; Hamilton's Theory of Perception; Method of Philological Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language; and Anglo-Saxon Reader.

March, Walter

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 5, 1814, in Millbury, Mass.

In 1852 he was elected judge of the common pleas district, composed of the counties of Delaware, Grant, and Blackford, Ind. This position he held till 1856, when he was chosen state senator from the counties above named, and served as such by re-election until 1864. In 1878 he was elected representative in the legislature from Delaware county. man.

Marchand, Albert G

congress- He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1839 to 1843. He died Feb. 5, 1846, in Greensburg, Pa.

Marchand, David

congressman, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa.

He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821.

Marchand, John Bonnett

naval officer, was born Aug. 27, 1808, in Greensborough, Pa. He entered the United States navy in 1828 as midshipman, and was promoted commodore in 1866. He died April 13, 1875, in Carlisle, Pa.

Marchant, Dalton Edward

artist, was born Dec. 16, 1806, in Edgartown, Mass. He settled in Philadelphia in 1845, and painted many portraits. Among them are those of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Bishop Meade, and that of President Lincoln, now in the council-chamber of Independence hall, Philadelphia. He died Aug. 15, 1887, in Asbury Park, N. J.

Marchant, Henry

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in April, 1741, in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He practiced law in Newport, R. Ι.; was attorneygeneral of that state from 1770 to 1777; and was a member of the assembly. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1780, and in 1783 and 1784. From 1790 until his death, he was judge of the United States district court.

He died Aug. 30, 1796, in Newport.

Marcy, Daniel

legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1809, in New Hampshire. In 1853 and 1854 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and in 1856 and 1857 a state senator. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-eighth congress.