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Marsh, George Perkins

lawyer, philologist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 15, 1801, in Woodstock, Vt. He was a philologist of distinction and was a member of congress in 1842-61, when he was appointed minister to Italy in 1861-82. He was the author of Lectures on the English Language; Man and Nature, rewritten and enlarged with the title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the English Language; and Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. He died July 24, 1882, in Rome, Italy, while serving as United States minister to Italy.