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(V) J. Munn Andrews, eldest child of Lu- ther Munn and Lois (Wilkins) Andrews, was born in Great Falls (now called Somers- worth) New Hampshire, May 7, 1865. When six months old he came with his parents to Lowell, Massachusetts, in which city he has since continuously resided. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Lowell, gradu- ating from the high school in 1882, and re- ceiving one of the Carney Medals awarded at that time. He is secretary and manager of the O'Sullivan Rubber Company of Lowell. He has been prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity of Lowell for a great many years; he is a past master of William North Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and a member of Mount Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Ahasuerus Council, Royal and Select Masters; Pilgrim Comman- dery, Knights Templar ; the Scottish Rite bod- ies; and Massachusetts Consistory, S. P. R. S .; and at one time served as junior steward of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
Mr. Andrews was married, at the Emanuel Church, Boston, Massachusetts, February 10, 1891, to Isabel Almira Huse, born in Lowell, June 25, 1865, daughter of Nathan and Almira (Soper) Huse. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have one child, Nathan Huse An- drews, born in Lowell, November 19, 1898.
Thomas Hardy, immigrant an- . 1730-1. 4. Asa, born January 20, 1732-3. 5.
HARDY cestor, born in England in 1606, was one of the twelve founders of Ipswich, Massachusetts, April I, 1633, and was for many years a proprietor and active citizen there. He removed to Rowley about 1653, and to Bradford in 1663. In his historical sermon on the history of Bradford, Perry says that Thomas and his brother John came in the family of Governor John Winthrop, and that the governor gave them land at Ipswich. In 1636 his house in Ipswich was on a lot near the river, adjoining Robert Adams, and Thomas Howlet's land. He was a subscriber to the Denison fund in 1648. He gave land at Haverhill to his daughter. Mary, wife of Samuel Currier, July 1, 1679. He died January 4, 1678, aged sev- enty-two. In his will made at Merrimac Vil- lage, near Haverhill (Bradford) March 4, 1672, with postcript added December 12. 1677, proved March 7, 1678, he bequeathed to his wife; to sons Thomas, John, Joseph, Jacob and William; son-in-law William Hutchins, and daughter Mary Currier and her children. Children: I. Thomas, resided
in Bradford; married Mercy Tenney. 2. Mary, married, 1670, Samuel Currier, of Haverhill. 3. John, resided in Bradford. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Jacob. 6. Wil- liam, married Ruth 7. Daughter, married William Hutchins.
. (II) Captain Joseph Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy (I), born in Ipswich, 1641, died in Bradford, January II, 1726-7. He was cap- tain of the Bradford company, and was prob- ably in active service in King Philip's war. He married Mary Jackson; had a son Joseph, and perhaps other children.
(III) Joseph Hardy, son of Joseph Hardy (2), was born 1665-70, in Bradford, died there January, 1747; married April 6, 1698, Mary Burbank, of an old Rowley family at Bradford. Children, all born at Bradford: I. James, mentioned below. 2. Martha, born February 17, 1700-I. 3. Mary, January 21, 1702-3. 4. Timothy, August 24, 1705. 5. Ebenezer, November 14, 1707. 6. David, October 3, 1709. 7. Jemima, May 13, 17II. 8. Stephen, August 29, 1713. 9. Amos, bap- tized July 15, 1716. IO. Mehitable, born March 20, 1718.
(IV) James Hardy, son of Joseph Hardy (3), was born in Bradford, April 14, 1699; married there, July 4, 1727, Hannah Bailey. Children, all born in Bradford: I. Abigail, March 17, 1728. 2. Peter, baptized Decem- ber 21, 1729. 3. Beulah, born February 7,
Silva, baptized December 8, 1734 (probably same as Zilpha, born December 3, 1734). 6. Ednah, born May 30, 1737. 7. James, born January 12, 1739. 8. Aaron, born August 30, 1742; mentioned below. 9. Hepsebath, born December 16, 1745. 10. Peter, born April 25, 1748.
(V) Aaron Hardy, son of James Hardy (4), was born in Bradford, August 30, 1742, and died in Hollis, New Hampshire, December 26, 1775, aged thirty-three, according to rec- ord at Hollis. He settled at Hollis about the time of his marriage. He was a soldier in the Hollis company on the Lexington call, April 19, 1775, and marched to Cambridge under Captain Reuben Dow. His home in Hollis was on the east side, and he paid a tax of four pounds six shillings in 1774. He mar- ried Abigail Dutton, of Tewksbury, Massa- chusetts, and she remained in Hollis after his death; she married second, Nehemiah Hardy. Children: 1. Aaron, Jr., born October 24, 1771 ; mentioned below. 2. Reuben, August 28, 1773. 3. Abigail, October 12, 1775.
(VI) Aaron Hardy, son of Aaron Hardy
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(5), born in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 24, 1771, died September, 1849. He had a common school education in Hollis, and the training of a farmer. In 1794, when he was twenty-three, he settled in Lempster, New Hampshire, and followed farming for his occupation. He also taught school during the winter terms at Lempster and Hollis. He began to study for the ministry in Hollis, but found himself handicapped by his sur- roundings, and finally gave up the idea. His farm at Lempster comprised some eighty acres in the eastern part of the town. He owned a grist mill and a saw mill, and oper- ated both. In 1836 he sold his farm and re- .. moved to Hollis to occupy the farm that his father had owned there, buying the rights of his mother's second husband, Nehemiah Har- dy. Aaron Hardy was a rigid orthodox in religion, and deacon of the church many years. In politics he was a Whig. He was one of the early advocates of total abstinence. He belonged to the' militia when a young man. He married February 12, 1795, Sally Shattuck, born May 4, 1774, died July, 1869, daughter of Zacharaiah and Elizabeth (Far- ley) Shattuck of Hollis, New Hampshire. Her father was a farmer. Children: I. Aaron, Jr., died 1826. 2. James, born December 30, 1797, died April 22, 1884; married January I, 1824, Lucy Hurd, of Lempster, New Hamp- shire; children: i. Asenath, born January 29, 1828; married June 20, 1848, Nathan M. Ames, of Hollis; resides at Vineland, New Jersey ; children: William Henry Ames, born March 21, 1851, married June 19, 1879, Florence M. Jolly, of Vineland, New Jersey, and have: Arthur Garfield Ames, born Sep- tember 16, 1880; Leroy Hardy, Ames, Feb- ruary 8, 1884; Pearl Ames, December 7, 1886. Lucy Ella Ames, born June 8, 1852, died unmarried, January 3, 1878. Sarah Elizabeth Ames, born January 14, 1854, mar- ried May 5, 1880, Leonard Spencer of Vine- land, New Jersey; ii. Henry Martin Luther, born 1832, died 1834. 3. Reuben, married Harriet Hurd, of Lempster; children: i. George Aaron; ii. Milan Reuben; iii. Harriet Louise; iv. Sarah Shattuck, married Kendall Tyler. 4. Sarah. 5. Mary. 6. Hiram, born February 12, 1810, died February 15, 1884; married April 22, 1841, Pamelia Kittridge, of Merrimac, New Hampshire ; children, i. Sarah Matilda, born June 17, 1843, married Decem- ber 25, 1876, William Bennett, of Mil- ford, New Hampshire, and had Herbert Allen Bennett, born October 6, 1878, married Sep- tember 13, 1904, Clara Becker of Wheeling,
Vermont, (child, Blanche Alda Bennett, born August 10, 1905;) ii. Mary Elizabeth, born June 24, 1845; unmarried. 7. Truman, born April 12, 1812; died February 5, 1889; mar- ried September 27, 1836, Ellen M. Beal; chil- dren: i. Clara Ellen, born November 3, 1837, died June 18, 1847; ii. Truman Alvah, born October 21, 1839, married November, 1863, Louise R. Wheeler (Children: I. Frank, died young; 2. Richard, died young; 3. Lizzie Frances, born July 20, 1866; 4. Arthur Proc- tor, born February 22, 1873; 5. Henry Wheeler, born May 5, 1876; 6. Daughter died in infancy.); iii. Milo Thomas, born October 9, 1841, married February 27, 1866, Melissa H. Ober (Children: I. Etta Louise, born March 20, 1869; 2. Clara Ellen, born May 7, 1870 ; 3. Eva Mary, born September 26, 1873 ; 4. Laverne Melissa, born July 13 1875) ; iv. Lucy Caroline, born April 26, 1844, mar- ried June 27, 1865, William Watermeyer (Children: 1. Willie Watermeyer, born Jan- uary, 1867, died July, 1868; 2. E. Ada Water- meyer, born December 5, 1870; 3. Bertha D. Watermeyer, born April 23, 1876); v. Emma Jane, born May 15, 1860, died December 14, 1903; married September 27, 1888, Rev. N. E. Hurlbut ; (Children : I. Nettie C. Hurl- but, born October 17, 1889; 2. Roy Truman Hurlbut, born November 22, 1891; 3. Esther L. Hurlbut, born September 17, 1894; 4. Frederick L., Hurlbut, born November 19, 1896; 5. Howard H. Hurlbut, born May 20, 1898). 8. John, born June, 1815; mentioned below. 9. Tryphena. 10. Solon, born April 3, 1817, died March 18, 1903; married April 22, 1846, Martha Chenery; children i. Mary Arvilla, born December 6, 1848; ii. Willis Chenery, born November II, 1851; married November 22, 1898, Lymena Thompson, of Charlestown, Massachusetts; iii. George Her- bert, born July 19, 1853, married May II, 1881, Hattie Moore, of Hollis, New Hamp- shire; (Children: I. son, born February 7, 1882, died February 26, 1882; 2. Mabel Moore, born January 24, 1883; 3. Frank Wil- lis, born December 14, 1885 ; 4. Grace Chenery, born December 22, 1888; 5. Henry Alpheus, born May 25, 1892, died August 6, 1892; 6. Howard, born November 7, 1896, died No- vember 24, 1896); iv. Alice.
(VII) John Hardy, son of Aaron Hardy (6), was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, June, 1815. He had a common school edu- cation. In his youth he worked on his fath- er's farm and in his mills, and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1836 he removed with his parents to Hollis. In the forties he set-
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tled in Columbus, Ohio, and was engaged in the manufacture of winnowing machines for a time. He returned to Hollis, and in his later years was a miller most of the time. He died January 7, 1847, in the prime of life. He was jovial, good-natured and philosophical in temperament. Amiable and attractive, he made many friends. He was a member of the Congregational church (orthodox) at Lempster and Hollis, New Hampshire; was active in the temperance movement and of, high character. He was a Whig in politics; sergeant of his militia company. He married January 1, 1845, Hannah Farley, who died in April, 18 -. She was a descendant of George Farley, the first settler of Billerica, daughter of James and Jane (Wright) Farley. Samuel Wright, father of Jane, was a soldier in the Revolution, and fought in the battles of Bun- ker Hill and Bennington. James Farley was a millwright, carpenter and bridge builder. The only child of John and Hannah Hardy was John Henry, mentioned below.
(VIII) Judge John Henry Hardy, son of John Hardy (7), was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, February 2, 1847. He was edu- cated there in the public schools, and in Ap- pleton Academy at Mont Vernon and the ac- ademy at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, en- tering Dartmouth College, where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1870. While a college student he taught school in Mason and Hollis, New Hampshire, and at Provincetown and Southborough, Massachu- setts. After graduating from college he be- gan to study law in the office of Judge Ed- ward F. Johnson, of Marlborough, Massachu- setts and at Harvard Law School. He then entered the office of Robert M. Morse, a prominent Boston lawyer, as a student. While there in 1871 and 1872, he also taught Greek and Latin in Chauncy Hall School, Boston. In 1872 he was admitted to the Suffolk coun- ty bar and began to practice law in partnership with George W. Morse, at 5 Court street, Boston, under the firm name of Morse & Hardy. In 1874 this firm was dissolved and he became a partner in the firm of Hardy, Elder & Proctor. His partners were Samuel J. Elder, Esq., and Thomas W. Proctor, Esq. In May, 1885, he was appointed associate justice of the municipal court of Boston, an office he filled with ability until he resigned to accept the appointment from Governor Wolcott as associate justice of the superior court of Massachusetts, in September, 1896, a position that he has since filled with credit. He was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting
September, 1862, in Company E, Fifteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Mili- tia, for nine months, under Lieutenant Col- onel Henry W. Blair (afterward United States senator), and Colonel Hosea W. King- man. This regiment was in the Nineteenth Army Corps, General Neal Dow's brigade, and served at Carrolton, New Orleans, at Camp Parapet, and at the siege of Port Hud- son. He received an honorable discharge August 8, 1863. Judge Hardy is a member of the Unitarian church at Arlington, Massa- chusetts, and at one time was trustee of the American Unitarian Association. He was superintendent of the Sunday school of this church for five years. In politics he is a Re- publican, and has frequently served as dele- gate to state and other nominating conven- tions of his party. He was representative to the general court from Arlington and Win- chester in 1883 and 1884, and served on the committee on probate and chancery and also on banks and banking. He was for several years counsel for the town of Arlington, and has been chairman of the Arlington school committee. He is a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Masons since October 17, 1872, and was its worshipful master from 1879 to 1880; was exalted in Menotomy Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, May 3, 1875; received the Templar degrees in the Boston Commandery, Knight Templar, at Boston. He is a mem- ber of the Suffolk Bar Association.
He married, August 30, 1871, Anna Jane Conant, born at Littleton, Massachusetts, November 16, 1849, daughter of Levi and Anna (Mead) Conant, of Littleton. Her father was a farmer. Children: born at Ar- lington : I. Harry Ballard, born December 9. 1872, died August 1I, 1873. 2. John Henry Jr., born June 10, 1874; mentioned below. 3. Horace Dexter, born February 28, 1877; married December 15, 1905, Harriet Louise Decker, of Madison, New Jersey; member of state legislature from the Arlington-Lexing- ton district: a practicing attorney in Boston; children: Harriet Louise, born September 23, 1906; Anna Jones, born November 10, 1907. (IX) John Henry Hardy, son of Jonh Henry Hardy (8), was born at Arlington, Massachusetts, June 10, 1874. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, but left before graduation, and at the age of eighteen en- tered the employ of the Nathan Robbins Company, dealers in poultry and game, 33 Faneuil Hall Market, as a clerk, and has re- mained with that concern in various capaci-
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ties to the present time. In 1901 the firm was incorporated under the laws of Massa- chusetts with the following officers: Presi- dent, Michael W. Scannell; vice-president, Miss E. P. Robbins; secretary and treasurer Horace Bassett; director, John Henry Hardy. This concern is the oldest in their line of bus- iness in Faneuil Hall Market, having been es- tablished by the late Nathan Robbins in 1826. Mr. Robbins was a pioneer in the game and poultry trade. The company has two stalls in the market, and a large store at 20 Clinton street, where the wholesale business is trans- acted. Among their customers are many Maine and other summer hotels, the Boston hotels and the wealthy sections of Boston, such as the Back Bay. Mr. Hardy is one of the managers of the business, and he is es- pecially interested in game. He is a student of ornithology, for many years has been col- lecting specimens of bird life, and has one of the finest and most complete private collec- tions of American birds in this country, and is deemed an authority in this subject. He is a member of the Nuttall Club; of the Bos- ton Society of Natural History; of the Audu- bon Society, and the American Ornithologist Union. He loves nature, and is devoted to the pleasures of the rod and gun. In relig- ion Mr. Hardy is a Unitarian; in politics a Republican. He was formerly a member of the Arlington Golf Club. He belongs to the Fruit and Produce Exchange of Boston.
He married, September 15, 1898, Dorothy Myra Keeler, born at Hyde Park, Vermont, daughter of Fred Nelson and Ellen (Sawyer) Keeler, of Hyde Park. Her father was a ho- tel keeper and a prominent Free Mason. Children of John H. and Dorothy M. Hardy: I. John, born December 3, 1899. 2. Sher- man Keeler, May 10, 1902. 3. Ruth Whit- ney, born March 4, 1904.
John Marshall, the immi- MARSHALL grant ancestor, was born in 1632, according to his gravestone, though he testified October 9, 1677, giving his age as sixty. One of the statements is in error, possibly both. He set- tled in Billerica, Massachusetts. His first allotment was twenty acres "lying partly on the township and partly on the commons; bounded by John Sheldon north; by the com- mons east; by Peter Bracket south; by Mr. Whiting and William Pattin west; and a par- cel of land reserved for the ministry on ye west and partly on ye south, and partly by
East street on the south-west." The last bound is a reminiscence of the ancient An- dover road before it was changed in 1660 to its present location. It was then east of the narrow gauge railroad line, as it runs south from the street. When the road was altered Marshall was allowed a private way across Sheldon's land to reach it. He had later grants farther west by Low's Plain, and sold his first grant, above described, to Dr. Sam- uel Frost. The road running east across Low's Plain was known only as Marshall's Lane, and the old house in which the family long lived is still standing on the east road, near the turning of this lane.
He married, November 19, 1662, Hannah Atkinson, probably daughter of Thomas At- kinson, of Concord, Massachusetts. She was born March 5, 1644, and died September 7, 1665. He married (second), November 27, 1665, Mary Burrage, who died October 30, 1680, aged thirty-nine. He married (third), November 30, 1681, Damaris Waite, of Mal- den, widow. Sergeant John Marshall died November 5, 1702, aged seventy, and his widow married, July 14, 1703, Lieutenant Thomas Johnson, of Andover, Massachu- setts. Children: I. John, born June 7, 1667, died July 7 following. 2. Mary, born October 2, 1668, died July 17, 1669. 3. Joan- nah, born April 1, 1670, married Peter Cor- nell, of Billerica. 4. John, born August I, 1671, married, December 8, 1695-96, Eunice Rogers, daughter of John Rogers. 5. Mary, born October 14, 1672, died October 18, 1673. 6. Hannah, born February 18, 1673- 74, died June 21 following. 7. Thomas, born November 10, 1675, and baptized, perhaps. on account of the Narragansett war, at Charlestown, November 14, and died Novem- -ber 28, 1675, at Billerica. 8. Isaac, born January 31, 1677-78, died April 28 following. 9. Mehitable, born August 13, 1680, died in August following. .
(II) John Marshall, son of John Marshall (I), was born August 2, 1671; married, De- cember 8, 1695-96, Eunice Rogers, daughter of John Rogers; children, born in Billerica: I. Mary, born October 28, 1696, married, June 27, 1734, Nathan Cross, of Nottingham West (now Hudson), New Hampshire. 2. John, born January 19, 1698-99, married, Au- gust 15, 1722, Abigail Parker; mentioned be- low. 3. Daniel, born May 13, 1701. 4. Eu- nice, born October 16, 1703. 5. Thomas, born March 28, 1706. 6. Samuel, born June 23, 1708. 7. William, born July 28, 1710. 8. Isaac, born December 18, 1712.
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(III) John Marshall, son of John Marshall (2), was born in Billerica, January 19, 1698- 99. He was a sergeant of the Billerica mili- tia company; settled in Tewksbury, Massa- chusetts, where he died October 6, 1762. He married, August 15, 1722, Abigail Parker, daughter of Benjamin Parker. Children: . I. John, born July 28, 1723, died August 14 fol- lowing. 2. John, born August 14, 1724. 3. Daniel, born August 29, 1726, mentioned be- low. 4. Abigail, born May 24, 1730, died October 22 following. 5. David, born March II, 1732-33, died April II following.
(IV) Daniel Marshall, son of John Mar- shall (3), was born in Billerica, Massachu- setts, August 29, 1726. With others of the family he settled at Nottingham West (now Hudson), New Hampshire. Of this family the census of 1790 shows as heads of families and having children under sixteen years of age : Daniel. Samuel, Elijah, Nathaniel, Phil- ip, John, Lot, Benjamin and Henry. Daniel signed a petition relating to the protection of fish in 1778. In 1779 his name was third on the petition of most of the then residents of Nottingham West to substitute a ditch at Moses Hadley's mill for the flue ordered by the general court. His sons Elijah and Ben- jamin were also signers, and also Thomas Winn, Abiathar Winn, Joseph Winn and Jos- eph Winn, Jr. Children of his aunt, Mrs. Nathan Cross, also resided in this town.
(V) Elijah Marshall, son of Daniel Mar- shall (4), was born in Nottingham West about 1750. Among his children was Eli- jah W., mentioned below.
(VI) Elijah W. Marshall, son of Elijah Marshall (5), was born in Nottingham West, now Hudson, New Hampshire, August 14, 1788, died May 5, 1842. He served in the war of 1812. He married, October 4, 1808, in Hudson, New Hampshire, Elizabeth Winn, of the family mentioned. About 1823 they removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts. She died at Everett, Massachusetts, January 29, 1880, aged ninety-two years, four months and twenty-five days. Children: I. Leonard, born May 3, 1809, at Hudson, died July I, 1890. 2. Eliza, born October 26, 1810, died October 6, 1843. 3. Mary A., born May 15, 1814, died May 28, 1901. 4. Wyzeman, born September 26, 1816, mentioned below. 5. Lucenna C., born December 7, 1818, died February 15, 1885. 6. Otis, born August 3, 1822, died May 29, 1893. 7. George, born December 11, 1824, died May 20, 1848. 8. Nathan W., born March 21, 1831, died No- vember 3, 1835.
(VII) Wyzeman Marshall, son of Elijah W. Marshall (6), was born in Hudson, New Hampshire, September 26, 1816, died Decem- ber 25, 1896. He received some slight early schooling, but the education he possessed (and he was a man of extensive reading and much culture) was attained by his own un- aided efforts. In his early youth he em- barked in various pursuits, among which was farming, but he was ambitious for a public career and cultivated natural ability in elo- cution and acting until he became proficient. In February, 1836, he made his first appear- ance in public on the boards of the Lion The- atre, in Boston, then under the management of William Barrymore, in the small part of Vibulanus, in James Sheridan Knowles' trag- edy "Virginius." After his first appearance he became permanently attached to the com- pany, and during the remainder of the season continued to fill small parts in the nightly bills, meantime studying hard, and fitting him- self for the upmost round of the ladder. Dur- ing the summer of this year he became a member of a dramatic company which per- formed in Providence and Newport, and ap- peared in such parts as Pizarro Angerstoff in "The Floating Beacon," and Duke of Buckingham in "Richard III." For the fall season of 1836 he was engaged at the Old National Theatre under the management of William Pelby, and played a variety of busi- ness-anything and everything for which he was cast. He remained at the Old National for a number of seasons, steadily advancing in his profession, and each season approach- ing nearer to the goal of his ambitions. Dur- ing the summer of 1839 Mr. Marshall first tried his hand at management. He organ- ized a small company and gave performances in a number of country towns, doing a good business, and returned to the Old National for the fall and winter campaign. On July 10, 1840, he opened Boylston Hall, in the Boylston Market building, a once popular concert hall, and for two months conducted a profitable business. . For the regular sea- . son of 1840-41, he was again engaged at the Old National; during the summer he again became the manager of a small traveling. troupe, meeting with success; and on his re- turn to the Old National for the season of 1841-42 found himself promoted to a singular combination of two lines of business-the leading "heavies" and "ballet master." At the close of the season he brought his connection with the Old National to a termination. On the 27th of June, 1842, Mr. Marshall took
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possession of the Amphitheatre, formerly used for circus and kindred performances, situated on the corner of Haverhill and Trav- erse streets, and opened it as the Eagle Thea-
. tre. This establishment, in connection with his theatre at Providence which he had leased, he carried on until the spring of 1843. At the close of the season of 1843 Mr. Marshall went to New York and played a short en- gagement at the Chatham Theatre, after which he returned to Boston, but did not act again until the fall of 1844. At the close of a brief season, Mr. Marshall went "down east" .on a starring tour, and in May, 1845, accepted an engagement at the Chatham The- atre, and remained until June 17, 1847, when he transferred his services to the Bowery Theatre. During the vacation he played star engagements at Utica, Syracuse and Al- bany, and returned to the Bowery for the opening of the regular season. In 1848 Mr. Marshall was again in Boston, reappearing at the Federal Street Theatre with great suc- cess. At the close of this engagement he starred in the British provinces, and then went to the Arch Street Theatre, Philadel- phia. At the close of the Philadelphia sea- son he played engagements at Baltimore and Providence, returning to Philadelphia, where he remained until the close of the season of 1850. He followed this up by engagements in Baltimore, Washington, Albany, New York, and then took a theatre in Portland, Maine, for a short season. From Portland he went south, and returning to Boston be- came the manager of the Howard Atheneum for the season of 1851-52. At the close of this season, which was pecuniarily success- ful, he starred throughout the country and played in various theatres in Boston up to 1857. On February 9, 1857, Mr. Marshall opened the new theatre in Worcester. On August 24, 1863, he opened the Boston The- atre for the fall season. The season, which was quite a profitable one, was brought to a close on June 13, 1864, and this terminated ยท his connection with the theatre, and his ca- reer, long and honorable, as a theatrical man- ager.
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