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Marshall, William Champe – Martin, Auguste Marie

Marshall, William Champe

lawyer, state legislator, orator, was born Aug. 9, 1807, in Augusta, Ky. He served in the Kentucky legislature for many years. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1850, and was commonwealth attorney for Bracken county. He died May 2, 1873, in Augusta, Ky.

Marshall, William Edgar

artist, was born June 30, 1837, in New York city.

He is best known by his portrait engravings, of which the admirable heads of Washington, Lincoln and Grant were especially successful. He made six portraits of Gen. Grant, the last one just before the general's death.

Marshall, William Rainey

surveyor, merchant, financier, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 17, 1825, in Boone county, Mo. In 1848 he served in the legislature of Wisconsin, and in 1849 was elected a member of the first territorial legislature of Minnesota. During 1866-68 he was governor of Minnesota.

Marshall, Willis

educator, college president, was born Feb. 17, 1864, in Manhattan, Kan. He received his education at the Washburn college of Topeka, Kan., and at once entered educational work. He has been principal of the Spencer academy, Indian Territory; superintendent of the Hunderford academy of Springville, Utah; and is now president of the Buena Vista college of Storm Lake, Iowa.

Marston, George W

musician, composer, was born May 23, 1840, in Sandwich, Mass. He is a teacher of piano and harmony; and has published an album of German songs, Anthems, Te Deum and piano pieces.

Marston, Gilman

soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 20, 1811, in Oxford, N. H. In 1845 he was elected to the New Hampshire legislature, and served four years. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1859 to 1863. In 1863 he was commissioned a brigadier-general. Early in 1865 he was elected to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1870 he was appointed governor of Idaho. He died July 3, 1890, in Exeter, N. H.

Martien, William Stockton

publisher, was born June 20, 1798. In 1830, in connection with others, he began the publication of the Presbyterian in Philadelphia, and remained its publisher and principal owner until his death. He died April 16, 1861, in Philadelphia.

Martin, Adam

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 9, 1835, in Bavaria. In 1865 he was called to the presidency of Northwestern university, Wisconsin. In 1869 he accepted the professorship of the German language and literature in Pennsylvania college of Gettysburg, Pa. He has translated the large catechism of Luther for the Book of Concord.

Martin, Alexander

soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born about 1740 in Guilford county, N. C.

He was in the North Carolina state senate, and was elected speaker. He was elected governor of North Carolina in 1782, and again in 1789; and was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States. From 1793 to 1799 he was United States senator.

He died in November, 1807, in Danbury, N. C.

Martin, Alexander

college president, clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 24, 1822, in Scotland. In 1875 he became president of the Indiana Asbury university in Greencastle, Ind.; and was professor of Greek at the Allegheny college. He died Dec. 16, 1893, in Greencastle, Ind.

Martin, Auguste Marie

bishop, was born about 1820 in France. He was consecrated in 1853 bishop of the newly created diocese of Natchitoches, which comprised the part of Louisiana that lies north of the thirty-first parallel of latitude. He died Sept. 29, 1875, in Natchitoches, La.