Markoe, Thomas Masters – Marshall, Alexander K
Markoe, Thomas Masters
surgeon, author, was born Sept. 13, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a surgeon of New York city, professor in Columbia college from 1860, and author of a Treatise on Diseases of the Bones.
Marks, Albert S
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born in October, 1836, in Daviess county, Ky. He was governor of Tennessee from 1879 to 1881.
Marks, Elias
educator, author, was born Dec. 2, 1790, in Charleston, S. C.
He became president of Columbia Female college, and subsequently founded Barhamville Collegiate institute, near Columbia, and conducted it till a short time before the civil war. He died in June, 1886, in Washington, D. C.
Marks, William
United States senator, was born Oct. 13, 1778, in Chester county, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1831. He died April 10, 1858, in Beaver, Pa.
Marlowe, Julia
actress, was born in 1865 in England. She has attained prominence as one of the foremost actresses in the United States.
Marmaduke, John Sappington
soldier, journalist, governor, was born in March, 1833, in Saline county, Mo. In 1861 he entered the confederate army as a colonel; in 1862 was promoted to brigadier-general, and in 1864 to major-general. In the year 1884 he was elected governor of Missouri. He died Dec. 28, 1887, in Jefferson City, Mo.
Marmaduke, Meredith Miles
governor, was born Aug. 28, 1791, in Westmoreland, Va. In 1840 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Missouri, and in 1844 became acting governor by the death of Thomas Reynolds. He died March 26, 1864, in Arrow Rock, Mo.
Marotz, Frederick William
physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 7, 1855, in Rock Island, Ill. He received his education in the Iowa State university; holds a medical degree from the Long Island College hospital of Brooklyn, N. Y., and took a post-graduate course at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college of New York city. Since 1883 he has practiced his profession at Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa, where he is a prominent pharmacist.
Marquand, Allan
educator, journalist, was born Dec. 10, 1853, in New York city. He became a fellow of Johns Hopkins university, and on taking the degree of Ph. D. in 1880 returned as tutor to Princeton, and in 1883 was made professor of the history of art. He is one of the editors of the American Journal of Archæology, has written on archæology and logic for various journals, and edited Volume three of the Iconoclastic Cyclopedia of Arts.
Marquand, Henry Gurdon
banker, railroad president, was born April 11, 1819, in New York city. For ten years he was a banker in New York city, and in 1868 became one of the purchasers of the Iron Mountain railroad, of which he was vice-president, and afterward president until its incorporation in the Missouri Pacific system. He is a director in the latter company, and in many other corporations.
Marquette, David
clergyman, college president, was born July 19, 1842, in Clark county, Ohio. He now fills a pastorate in Oakdale. He has been presiding elder of several districts, and for many years was president of the Nebraska Central college.
Marquette, T. M
congressman. He was elected a representative from Nebraska to the thirty-ninth congress, but did not take his seat until the last day of the last session of that congress.
Marquiss, Seymour
farmer, legislator, was born June 7, 1837, in DeLand, Ill. He is a successful farmer of DeLand, Ill., and served with distinction in the fortieth general assembly of the Illinois state legislature.
Marr, Alem
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831.
Marr, Frances Harrison
poet, was born July 2, 1835, in Warrenton, Va.
She is the author of three volumes of poems entitled Heart-Life in Song; Virginia and Other Poems; and Songs of Faith.
Marr, George W. L
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1817 to 1819.
Marr, John Quincy
soldier, was born May 27, 1825, in Warrenton, Va.
In 1861 he was elected a member of the Virginia state convention, and opposed secession as long as it could be honorably avoided. He was ordered to the front in 1861, and was in the first encounter between the United States and the confederate troops.
Marr, Robert Athelstan
naval officer, was born April 18, 1823, in Warrenton, Va. In 1840 he was appointed midshipman in the United States navy, and served under Commodore Perry on the coast of Africa. He took part in the Mexican war, and fired the first shot in the naval attack on Vera Cruz. In 1854 he was appointed master. He was lost in the Caribbean sea with the entire crew of the United States sloop of war Albany, in October, 1854.
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, 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.
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.
Marsh, Samuel
clergyman, was born July 3, 1796, in Danville, Vt. He originated in 1827 the system of colportage that has since been employed with excellent results by the American Tract society, the American Sunday School union, and other religious societies. He died April 1, 1874, in Underhill, Vt.
Marsh, Sylvester
engineer, inventor, was born Sept. 30, 1803, in Campton, N. H. He originated the meat packing industry; invented various appliances; originated and built Mt. Washington railway; and invented the locomotive, cograil, and brakes used thereon. He died Dec. 30, 1884, in Concord, N. H.
Marsh, Tamerlane Pliny
clergyman, college president, was born July 30, 1845, in Orland, Ind. For twenty years he filled pastorates in the Rock River conference of the methodist episcopal church; and was stationed at Oak Park, Chicago, Rockford, and Evanston. He is now president of the Mount Union college of Alliance, Ohio.
Marshall, Alexander K
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.