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Marrow, John – Marsh, Othniel Charles

Marrow, John

Congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1805 to 1809.

Marselus, Nicholas John

clergyman, author, was born March 12, 1792, in Schenectady, N. Y. He published a sketch of Greenwich church and its pastorate under the title of Gospel Ministry and Its Results. He died April 5, 1876, in New York city.

Marsh, Benjamin F

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1837, in Hancock county, Ill. In 1876 he was elected as a republican to the forty-fifth congress from the then tenth district of Illinois, and was re-elected to the fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses. In 1889 he was appointed by Governor Oglesby railroad and warehouse commissioner, and held the same four years. In 1892 he was elected as a republican to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Marsh, Bonner Goelette

educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 21, 1859, in Bath, N. C. He is the president of the American college of Monterey, Mexico.

MARSH, MRS. CAROLINE (CRANE), author, was born Dec. 1, 1816, in Berkley, Mass. She is the author of The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; and Life of George P. marsh.

Marsh, Charles

lawyer, congressman, was born July 10, 1765, in Lebanon, Conn. For fifty years he practiced law in Woodstock, Vt. He served as a member of congress from 1815 to 1817, and while in Washington became identified with the American Colonization society as one of its founders. He died Jan. 11, 1840, in Woodstock, Vt.

Marsh, Charles Dwight

educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1855, in Hadley, Mass. He is professor of chemistry and biology in Ripon college, Wisconsin, and is the author of many valuable papers on entomostraca and lake faunæ.

Marsh, Dexter

paleontologist, was born Aug. 22, 1806, in Montague, Mass.

At the time of his death his cabinet probably contained the choicest collection of fossil footprints and fishes then in existence. He died April 2, 1853, in Greenfield, Mass.

Marsh, Elias J

publisher, journalist, was born Nov. 9, 1846, in Hancock county, Ind. In 1871 he came to Portland, Ind., and purchased the Jay and Adams Republican, since which time he has had control of that paper as editor and proprietor.

Marsh, James

college president, author, was born July 18, 1794, in Hartford, Vt. In 1826 he was elected president of the university of Vermont, serving until 1833. He is the author of Geography of the Bible; Spirit of Hebrew Poetry; and has contributed a number of articles to journals and newspapers. He died July 3, 1842, in Colchester, Vt.

Marsh, John

clergyman, author, was born April 2, 1788, in Wethersfield, Conn.

He was a congregational clergyman long prominent as a temperance lecturer; and the author of Epitome of Ecclesiastical History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; and Temperance Recollections. He died Aug. 4, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Marsh, Luther Rawson

lawyer, author, was born April 4, 1813, in Pompey, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of New York city; and is the author of a volume of the anti-slavery speeches of his father-in-law, Alvan Stewart.

Marsh, Othniel Charles

palæontologist, educator, author, was born Oct. 29, 1831, in Lockport, N. Y. He is a palæontologist, professor at Yale university since 1866; and the author of Odontornithes; Dinocerata; and Sauropoda.