Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno – Marcy, Daniel
Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno
soldier, was born Dec. 22, 1803, in New Haven, Conn. In 1822 he was assigned to the engineer corps, and for the next three years was an assistant to the board of engineers, then assembled in New York, and engaged in planning fortifications for the defense of the harbors and cities on the coast. He served in the Mexican war as chief engineer under General Taylor; was brevetted major for gallant and distinguished services; and also served with distinction in the civil war. He died Sept. 18, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Md.
Mansfield, Lewis William
author, poet, was born in 1816, in Connecticut. He is a writer of Cohoes, N. Y., and the author of The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country Letters; and Country Margins.
Manship, Andrew
clergyman, author, was born June 23, 1824, in Caroline county, Md. He is a methodist evangelist of Philadelphia, and the author of Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories; Reminiscences from the Saddle Bags of a Methodist Preacher; and History of Gospel Tents and Experience.
Manship, Luther
merchant, legislator, was born in Jackson, Miss. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Mississippi state legislature.
Manson, Mahlon D
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1820, in Piqua, Ohio. He enlisted as a private during the rebellion, and became colonel of the tenth Indiana infantry; and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He was elected to the forty-second congress from Indiana as a democrat.
Mansur, Charles H
lawyer, congressman, was born March 6, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, Mo., from 1875 till 1879. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Mantle, Lee
state legislator, was born in 1851, in England. He has been alderman and mayor of Butte City; and was three times elected to the territorial legislature of Montana, the last time being made speaker.
Manucy, Dominic
R. C. bishop, was born Dec. 20, 1823, in St. Augustine, Fla.
He was for some time stationed at the cathedral of the Immaculate conception, Mobile, and in 1864 was appointed pastor of Montgomery, where he continued for ten years. He died Dec. 4, 1885, in Mobile, Ala. was
Manville, Marion
author, born July 13, 1860, in La Crosse, Wis. She is the author of a work entitled Over the Divide, a collection of verse. mer-
Manzanares, Francisco
merchant, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1843, in Abiquiu, N. M. He was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Mapes, Charles Victor
agricultural chemist, journalist, was born July 4, 1836, in New York city. The future of successful agriculture depends upon artificial fertilizers, and it has been Mr. Mapes' mission to reduce the discoveries and investigations of chemistry to actual practice. He has published various articles and pamphlets on this subject, and has held the office of president of the New York fertilizer and chemical exchange since its organization.
Mapes, James Jay
chemist, inventor, author, was born May 29, 1806, in New York city. In 1832 he invented a new system of sugar refining, many features of which are still in general use; and his process for the manufacture of sugar from West India molasses was used in nearly every state of the union. He died Jan. 10, 1866, in New York city.
Maple, Joseph Cowgill
clergyman, was born Nov. 18, 1833, in Guernsey county, Ohio. He has received the degrees of A. M. and D. D.; and has filled pastorates in the paptist church at Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Owensboro, Ky.; Kansas City, and Springfield, Mo.; and since 1886 has been pastor of the baptist church of Keokuk, Iowa. For eight years he was chairman of the state mission board of Missouri, and has filled other important positions in the gift of his church. He was commissioned by the governor of Missouri to represent the state at the world's exposition of Paris, France; and during his absence he extended his trip through Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and Great Britain; and wrote Graphic Descriptions or his Travels, which appeared in the Central Baptist of St. Louis, Mo.
Marable, John H
congressman, was born in Brunswick county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1825 to 1829.
Marble, Anna Warren
actress, was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa.
She first appeared at the Holiday street theatre in Baltimore, Mi., as Rosalie Sumers in Town and Country. Her last appearance was in Chicago, Ill., in the winter of 1868-69.
Marble, Mrs. Callie L. Bonney
author, was born in Peoria, Ill. She has published two prose works, Wit and Wisdom of Bulwer; and Wisdom and Eloquence of Webster. She has written two operettas, and dramatized Bulwer's Rienzi. She is the wife of Earl Marble, the well-known journalist and author.
Marble, Danford
actor, was born in 1807, in East Windsor, Conn. He made his first appearance on the stage in 1831 as Rollin Roughhead in Fortune's Frolic, at Chatham garden, New York city, and then visited all the important cities in the United States, being successful as a delineator of American character. He died May 13, 1849, in Louisville, Ky.
Marble, Earl
journalist, poet, was born in Ohio. He became the editor and proprietor of The Great Divide of Denver, Colo. He is the author of numerous operettas and songs, and a volume of poems.
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, Alden
surgeon, author, was born Sept. 20, 1795, in Sutton, Mass. He was once a prominent surgeon of Albany, and the author of Wounds of the Abdomen; and Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations. He died June 17, 1869, in Albany, N. Y.
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March, Charles Wainright
journalist, author, was born Dec. 15, 1815, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a journalist and essayist of New York city; and the author of Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries; and Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain. He died Jan. 24, 1864, in Alexandria, Egypt.
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. I.; 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.