Marshall, Thomas Alexander – Martin, Homer Dodge
Marshall, Thomas Alexander
lawyer, jurist, journalist, was born March 29, 1812, in Augusta, Ky. He was judge of the Vicksburg circuit court; and a publisher and editor of Swedes and Marshall's Reports of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Marshall, Thomas Francis
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 7, 1801, in Frankfort, Ky. He was for several years judge of the circuit court of Louisville, and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. He died Sept. 22, 1864, in Versailles, Ky.
Marshall, William
surgeon, was born May 23, 1827, in Milton, Del. He served in the national army as surgeon of the third Delaware regiment, and after the battle of Antietam was discharged for disability, but he subsequently led a company in the sixth Delaware regiment, and also acted as surgeon until the close of the war.
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.
Martin, Augustus N
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 23, 1847, in Whitestown, Pa.
He represented Adams and Wells counties in the Indiana legislature in 1875. He was elected reporter of the supreme court of Indiana in 1876 and served for a term of four years, during which period he edited and published Indiana Supreme Court Reports. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Martin, Barclay
congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1847.
Martin, Benjamin F
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1828, in Marion county, Va. He was elected a representative from West Virginia to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses.
Martin, Benjamin Nicholas
educator, was born Oct. 20, 1816, in Mount Holly, N. J. He was called in 1852 to the chair of psychology and cognate subjects in the university of the city of New York, where he also lectured on rhetoric, belles-lettres, modern history, political economy, apologetics, and natural theology. He died Dec. 26, 1883, in New York city.
Martin, Charles D
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirtysixth congress.
Martin, Charles H
educator, clergyman, congressman. He became a clergyman of the baptist church at Polkton, N. C. In 1896 he was elected a member of the fifty-fifth congress by the populists.
Martin, D. M
soldier, lawyer. He served with distinction through the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadiergeneral. He has attained eminence at the bar in Chicago.
Martin, Daniel
governor, was born in Maryland. He was governor of that state in 1830. He died July 10, 1830, in Talbot county.
Martin, Edward L
railroad president, was born March 12, 1842, in Maysville, Ky. He is president of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad.
Martin, Edward Livingston
lawyer, congressman, was born March 29, 1837, in Seaford, Del. He was elected a representative from Delaware to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. as a democrat.
Martin, Edward Sandford
journalist, author, was born in 1856 in New York. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, Some Views of Ours; and Windfalls of Observation.
Martin, Elbert S
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth congress.
Martin, Francois Xavier
journalist, lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 17, 1762, in France. He was appointed judge of Mississippi territory by Jefferson; in 1813 was attorney-general of the state of Mississippi; and in 1815 was made judge of supreme court of Louisiana; and chief justice from 1837 to 1845. He published histories of Louisiana and North Carolina; Notes and Decisions in. the Superior Courts of North Carolina from 1787 to 1796; Acts of the North Carolina Assembly from 1715 to 1803; Reports of the Superior Courts of Orleans from 1809 to 1812; Reports. of the Supreme Court of Louisiana from 1813 to 1830; and a Digest of the Territorial and State Laws, in French and English. He died Dec. 11, 1846, in New Orleans, La.
Martin, Frederick S
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born.
April 25, 1794, in Rutland county, Vt. He served three years in the New York state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1851 to 1854.
Martin, George
lawyer, jurist, was. born June 30, 1815, in Middlebury, Vt. In 1857 he was elected chief justice of Michigan for two years; and in 1859 he was elected a justice of the court for a term of eight years. He died Dec. 15, 1867, in.
Detroit, Mich.
Martin, George Alexander
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Norfolk county, Va. He enlisted as a private in the confederate service and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In 1881 he was a member of the Virginia state senate; has. twice been a delegate to the Virginia.
House of delegates; in 1883-84 was railroad commissioner of Virginia; and in. 1888 was presidential elector of Virginia. He has made his-- tory and the classics a special study; and has contributed extensively to current. literature. He is one of the foremost. lawyers of his native state at Norfolk.
Martin, Henry Newell
educator,. biologist, author, was born July 1, 1848, in Ireland. He was a biologist of note, pro-- fessor of biology at Johns Hopkins university from 1876; and the author of The Human Body; Practical Biology; and Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection. died in 1896.
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Martin, Homer Dodge
artist, was born Oct. 28, 1836, in Albany, N. Y. His landscapes are notable for color and atmosphere. His works include White Mountains from Randolph Hill; Adirondacks; Thames at Richmond; Evening on the Saranac; Sand Dunes on Lake Ontario; On the Neck, Newport, R. I.; and Old Manor at Criquebœuf, Normandy.