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Marshall, Christopher

patriot, was born Nov. 6, 1709, in Ireland. His Remembrancer is one of the most valuable diaries that was kept during the revolution. The manuscript was presented to the Pennsylvania Historical society by his great-great-grandson, Charles Marshall, of Germantown, in 1839. He died May 4, 1797, in Philadelphia.

MARSHALL, EDWARD CHAUNCEY, educator, journalist, author, was born July 8, 1824, in Little Falls, N. Y. He is the author of Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; and Ancestry of General Grant.

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