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Mr. March was married in Proctorsville, Vermont, October 8, 1841, to Jane P'., daughter of Abel and Anna (Parker) Gil- son. Of this union are three children : Daniel March, Jr., M. D., Winchester ; Rev. Frederick W. March, missionary in the East, and Charles A. March, bureau of pensions, Washington, D. C.
Mr. March has made three journeys through the Bible lands- Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece ; has made three tours of the Continent, visiting every capital of Europe except Lisbon ; traveled in Ceylon, India, Burmah, Siam, China and
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Japan, visiting the chief cities, spending three years abroad.
He is a scholarly writer, and his works have been translated into the German, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian tongues, more than 450,000 copies having been sold. Among his works are : " Night Scenes in the Bible," "From Dark to Dawn," "Home Life in the Bible," "Our Father's House," " Days of the Son of Man," and "The First Khedive."
MARCY, HENRY ORLANDO, son of Smith and Fanny (Gibbs) Marcy, was born in Otis, Berkshire county, June 23, 1837. His ancestry was of Puritan stock-paternal (Marcy-Lawton); maternal (Gibbs-Morton) -dating back to the early settlers of New England. His grandfather, Thomas Marcy, was one of the first settlers in northern Ohio. His maternal great grandfather Israel, and grandfather, Elijah Gibbs, served in the revolutionary war, and were with General Gates at the surrender of Burgoyne. His father, who served in the war of 1812, was a teacher by pro- fession.
Dr. Marcy received his preliminary and classical education at Wilbraham Academy and Amherst College, and was graduated from the medical department of Harvard University, 1863. He was commissioned assistant-surgeon of the 43d Massachusetts volunteers, in April, 1863, and in the fol- lowing November, surgeon of the first regiment of colored troops recruited in North Carolina. He was appointed med- ical director of Florida in 1864, and served on the staff of Generals Van Wyck, Pot- ter, and Hatch.
In the autumn of 1863, Dr. Marcy was married to Sarah E. Wendell of Great Falls, N. H.
At the close of the war he located in Cambridge, Mass. In the spring of 1869 he went to Europe for the purpose of study, and entered the University of Berlin, where he remained a year as a special student of Professors Virchow and Martin. He then visited the various capitals of Europe, and studied the hospitals and their service, spending quite a period in London and Edinburgh. He became convinced of the truth of Prof. Lister's teachings, and re- turned to America, to adopt, among the first, the now famous, but then (in this country) unknown methods of aseptic and antiseptic surgery.
For the purpose of devoting himself more especially to the surgical diseases of women, Dr. Marcy removed to Boston in 1880, and opened in Cambridge a private
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hospital for women, which is still in suc- cessful operation. He participated ac- tively in the seventh international Med- ical Congress held in London in 1881, was a contributor to the eighth, held in Copen- hagen in 1884, and president of the Gynæ- cological section of the ninth congress held in Washington in 1887.
He has contributed largely to surgical literature, and is an active worker in the American Medical Association, to the vice-
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presidency of which he was elected in 1879. In 1882 he was president of the section of obstetrics and gynæcology, and for some years a member of the judicial council of the association. He is a mem- ber of various medical and scientific or- ganizations in both Europe and America, and was president of the American Acad- emy of Medicine in 1884.
In 1886 Dr. Marcy published, in two volumes, the translation of the works of Prof. Ercolani of Bologna, Italy, upon the " Reproduction Processes," besides which he has published his own special studies of the uterine mucosa during pregnancy. His best known publications are : "Plastic Splints in Surgery," "Aspiration of the Knee Joint," " Histological Studies of the Development of the Osseous Callous in Man and Animals," "Cure of Hernia by
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the Antiseptic Use of the Animal Suture," "The Best Methods of Operative Wound Treatment," " The Histology and Surgical Treatment of Uterine Tumors," "The Comparative Value of Germicides," " The Relations of Micro-Organisms to Sanitary Science," "Medical Legislation," "The Climate of the Southern Appalachians," " The Surgical Advantages of the Buried Animal Suture," " Exploratory Laparoto- my," "General Treatise on Hernia," and "The Perineum, its Anatomy, Physiol- ogy and Methods of Restoration after In- jury.'
The Wesleyan University conferred, in 1887, the honorary degree of LL. D. upon Dr. Marcy, in recognition of his skill and literary merit.
MARDEN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Buss) Marden, was born in Mt. Vernon, Hillsborough county, N. H., August 9, 1839.
His father was a mechanic, and the son was taught his father's trade, that of shoe- maker, at an early age; and such time as was not spent in school, until he was sixteen, was occupied with work at the bench and in farming. He fitted for college meanwhile, attending Appleton Academy, which had been established in his native town in 1851 (now known as McCollom Institute). During his college course (Dartmouth, 1861) he paid his way mainly by his own exertions in working at his trade and teaching school.
In November, 1861, he enlisted as a private in company G, 2d regiment, Ber- dan's United States sharpshooters; and on the organization of the company, Decem- ber 12, 1861, when he was mustered into- the United States service, received a war- rant as second sergeant. In April, 1862, he was transferred to the ist regiment of United States sharpshooters, and was with that regiment during the Peninsular cam- paign under McClellan from Yorktown to Harrison's Landing. On the 10th of July, the same year, he was commissioned by the governor of New Hampshire Ist lieuten- ant and regimental quartermaster, in which capacity he served with the regiment until the Ist of January, 1863, when he was ordered on staff duty as acting assistant adjutant-general of the 3d brigade, 3d division, 3d corps. He served in this capacity until August, 1863, taking part meantime in the battles of Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg and Wapping Heights. He was then ordered to Riker's Island, New York harbor, on detached service, but was soon returned to his regiment
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at his own request, and served until he was mustered out in September, 1864.
Returning to New Hampshire in the spring of 1865, he entered the law office of Minot & Mugridge at Concord, N. H., where he pursued his legal studies, and was also employed as a writer on the Concord "Daily Monitor." In November of the same year he went to Charleston, Kanawha county, W. Va., and purchased the "Ka- nawha Republican," a weekly newspaper, which he edited until the spring of 1866; but finding that success in the enterprise depended upon "swinging around the circle " with President Andrew Johnson, a task which was impossible to him, he dis- posed of the paper, and returned to New Hampshire. He was then employed by Adjutant - General Natt Head, of New Hampshire, to compile, arrange, and edit a
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history of each of the New Hampshire military organizations during the war, which histories form a large part of the adjutant- general's report for 1866. On January 1, 1867, he was offered a position as an assist- ant editor of the Boston " AAdvertiser," which he accepted and held until the first of the following September, when he, with his classmate Rowell, purchased the Lowell " Daily Courier" and Lowell " Weekly Journal " at Lowell, where both
still remain, editing and publishing those papers.
Mr. Marden was elected a member of the House of Representatives for 1873. In 1874 he was elected clerk of the House, and was re-elected every year until 1883, when he was again a member of the House, and was elected its speaker, and was re-elected to the same position in 1884. In 1885 he served as a member of the Senate for the 7th Middlesex sena- torial district. He was one of the four Grant delegates from Massachusetts to the national Republican convention at Chi- cago, in 1880, being a colleague of Ex- Secretary Boutwell of the 7th congres- sional district. On the state ticket, in 1888, he was elected treasurer and re- ceiver-general of the Commonwealth.
He read the poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Dartmouth College at commencement in 1878, and a poem be- fore the alumni of the same college at commencement in 1886 ; and has read poems on various occasions before mili- tary, press, and other associations.
Mr. Marden was the first commander of Post 42, G. A. R., Lowell, and is a mem- ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Massachusetts Commandery. At Dartmouth commencement, 1889, he was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association.
On the Ioth of December, 1867, at Nashua, N. H., Mr. Marden was married to Mary P., daughter of David and Har- riet (Nourse) Fiske, of that city. They have two children : Philip Sanford, born January 12, 1874, and Robert Fiske, born June 14, 1876. They now live at Lowell.
MARSHALL, JAMES FOWLE BALD- WIN, son of Thomas and Sophia ( Kendal) Marshall, and grandson of Captain Chris- topher Marshall of the revolutionary army, was born in Boston, August 8, 1818.
He was educated at the public schools in Charlestown and Derby Academy, Hing- ham. He entered Harvard in 1834, but was soon compelled by weakness of the eyes to leave college.
After three years' service as clerk in a dry-goods house, his eyes still troubling him, by advice of his physician he sailed in 1838 for the Hawaiian Islands, where he was a partner successively in the houses of Marshall & Johnson, C. Brewer & Co. and S. II. Williams & Co.
In 1843 an English naval officer, Lord George Paulet, having made forcible seiz- ure of the Islands, and for the time sub- verted the sovereignty of King Kame-
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hameha III., Mr. Marshall was, at the age of twenty-four, selected as the King's rep- resentative to present his case at the court of St. James. In 1851 he retired from mercantile business to give his attention to sugar planting on the island of Kauai.
He served four years as a member of the Hawaiian Parliament, taking an active part in giving form to the liberal constitu- tion granted to his people by Kamehameha III., and doing good service as chairman of the committee on education. General Samuel C. Armstrong, then a youth, was a Sunday-school scholar of Mr. Marshall in Honolulu.
In 1858 he returned to Massachusetts, settling in Westborough. On the breaking out of the rebellion, he labored earnestly to raise and equip troops, and went several times to the front to look after the West- borough contingent. In 1862 he repre- sented his town in the lower house of the "War Legislature."
Governor Andrew appointed him in Jan- uary, 1864, one of the state paymasters. In May, 1864, obtaining leave of absence, he with his wife entered the service of the Sanitary Commission, following General Grant's army through the Wilderness to City Point.
In the following autumn Mr. Marshall re-organized the paymaster's bureau, and as paymaster-general became a member of the governor's staff, with the rank of brigadier-general. He held the position until the close of 1866.
As president of the Hawaiian Club, Mr. Marshall introduced to the public of Bos- ton General Samuel C. Armstrong, when he was seeking to establish the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. In 1870 he became treasurer of that institu- tion and removed to Hampton. Increas- ing trouble with his eyes led him to resign the post in 1884. He returned to Massa- chusetts, making his home at Kendal Green in Weston, and taking charge of the Southern and Indian educational work of the American Unitarian Association.
Mr. Marshall married, October 4, 1848, Martha A. T., daughter of John and Eliza (Rand) Johnson, of Charlestown, and with his bride sailed on the ship " Leland " for Honolulu, a wedding trip of five months' length.
MARTIN, AUGUSTUS PEARL, son of Pearl and Betsey Verrill (Rollins) Martin, was born in Abbot, Piscataquis county, Me., November 23, 1835.
He received his educational training in the public schools of Boston, Wesleyan
Academy, Wilbraham, and in private schools in Melrose.
Upon entering business life he was first a clerk in the office of Thompson & War- ner, and subsequently clerk for Fay & Stone, boots and shoes, Boston, until the breaking out of the war, in 1861.
After the war he returned and was made a partner with Fay & Stone ; was admitted partner in 1868 in the house of Francis Dane & Co .; dissolved with Dane & Co. in 1871, and formed a co-partnership as A. P. Martin & Co., in May, 1871. In December of the same year, the firm changed to Martin & Skinner, and in 1876 to Martin, Skinner & Fay, and this in 1881 was changed again to A. P. Mar- tin & Co .- the present firm name.
He manufactures boots and shoes, with factory at Hudson, and office in Boston.
General Martin was married, in Boston, February 3, 1859, by the Rev. A. A. Miner, to Abbie Farmer, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Barry (Leavitt) Peirce. Of this union are four children : Flora E. (now Mrs. John Shepard, Jr.), Franklin Pearl, Charles Augustus and Everett Fay Martin.
General Martin was lieutenant of the Boston light artillery 1858 to '60 ; ser- geant during the three months' campaign in 1861 ; was commissioned Ist lieutenant, 3d Massachusetts battery, Massachusetts volunteers, September 5, 1861, and captain in November of same year. He was chief of artillery, Morell's division, 1862, and assigned to duty by General Meade as commander of the artillery brigade, 5th corps, army of the Potomac, in May, 1863 ; commissioned brevet-colonel at the close of the war, for gallant and meritorious services. He was commander of the An- cient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1878 ; commander of the Massachu- setts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, U. S., 1879 and '80 ; chief marshal at the dedication of the monu- ment on Boston Common, September 17, 1877 ; chief marshal at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, September 17, 1880 ; senior aid on the staff of Governor John D. Long, with the rank of brigadier- general, 1882, and mayor of Boston, 1884.
He is a director in Howard National Bank ; vice-president Home Savings Bank; he was president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, five years ; has been president of the Beacon Society, Tapley Machine Company, New England Mutual Aid Society, Central Club ; he is president of the Showalter Mortgage Com-
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pany, New England Phonograph Com- pany ; a member of the governing com- mittee of the Boston Athletic Association, and was a director of the Metropolitan Horse Railroad. He was one of the three who issued the notice requesting a com- pany of gentlemen to meet at the Hotel Vendôme to organize what is now the Algonquin Club, and acted as chairman of all the preliminary meetings until the or- ganization was completed.
MARVEL, JOHN C., son of William Marvel, 2d, and Betsey (Pitts) Marvel, was born in Westport, Bristol county, July 31, 1817.
His early education was limited to the common school.
He entered commercial life in the gro- cery business with his father in 1840, the firm name being William Marvel, 2d, & Son. In 1862 John C. assumed the business, and in 1869 took in his son as partner - firm name being John C. Marvel & Son. He again became sole owner in 1871, and has conducted the business alone'to the present time. He now divides his time between the store and farm.
Mr. Marvel was first married in Reho- both, February 20, 1842, to Ruth W., daughter of Sylvanus and Charlotte (Wright) Peck. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister, Frances A. Peck, December 2, 1849. They have five children : William H., Ruth A., John F., May W., and Bessie W. Marvel.
Mr. Marvel has been postmaster at Re- hoboth from 1843 to the present time ; treasurer of the Congregational society ten years ; town treasurer ten years ; mem- ber of the school board ; and a representa- tive to the General Court in 1859.
MASON, ALBERT, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle- borough, Plymouth county, November 7, 1836.
He was educated in the common schools and in Pierce Academy, Middleborough. He then studied law with Edward I. Sher- man, Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1860.
Ile commenced practice in Plymouth. In August, 1862, he entered the United States service in the 38th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, as 2d lieutenant, and contin- ued in the service till 1865. Early in his military service he was detailed for staff duty, serving as regimental and brigade quartermaster, and was subsequently com- missioned captain and assistant quarter- master by the president.
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November, 1865, he resumed practice in Plymouth, and was chairman of the board of selectmen from 1866 to '74; was a member of the House of Representatives, 1873 and '74; and in January, 1874, he took an office in Boston with Charles H. Drew, still retaining his office in Plym- outh. In May, 1874, he formed a part- nership with Arthur Lord. Benjamin R. Curtis was afterward admitted to this firm, with offices in Plymouth and Boston.
In July, 1874, Mr. Mason removed from Plymouth to Brookline, where he now re- sides ; December, 1874, was appointed on the board of harbor commissioners, and con- tinued on the boards succeeding this with various changes of title, till appointed jus- tice of the superior court in February, 1882, which office he has acceptably filled to the present time.
Judge Mason was married in Plymouth, November 25, 1857, to Lydia F., daugh- ter of Nathan and Experience (Finney) Whiting. Of this union are six children : John W., Mary A., Alice, Charles N., Martha, and Grace W. Mason.
MASON, SAMUEL WILLIAM, son of Rev. Samuel and Abigail Sawyer (Whitcomb) Mason, was born in Proctorsville, (Caven- dish) Windsor county, Vt., October II, 1824.
He attended the district schools in Ver- mont and New Hampshire ; was fitted for college in Kingston, N. H. ; entered Dart- mouth College in 1845, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1849. From his alma mater he received the degree of A. M. in 1854, and that of Ph. D. in 1881.
Immediately after leaving college, Mr. Mason went to Connecticut, and engaged in teaching in Rockville, but soon came to Boston with the intention of applying him- self to the study of law. While reading law in the office of Lyman Mason, he was appointed usher in Otis school, Boston, and subsequently transferred to the Endi- cott school. In 1850 he was appointed sub-master in the Eliot school, and master of the same school in 1885. This position he held until the establishment of the board of supervisors, and was then (March, 1876) elected a member of the board of super- visors of the Boston public schools, which office he still holds.
lle has done much to mould public school methods in their evolution, and has ever been a tower of defence to the system.
Dr. Mason has been secretary of the American Institute of Instruction, and president and secretary of the New Eng- land Superintendents' Association. He
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resides in Chelsea, and has been a member of the Chelsea common council two years, IS62 and '63, and two years, 1864 and '65, a member of the board of aldermen.
His church relations are with the First Congregational church, Chelsea, of which he has been clerk, and also superintendent ,of the Sabbath-school.
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Dr. Mason was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 28, 1853, to Ann W., daughter of Col. Ashbel and Lucinda (Tenney) Smith, of Hanover, N. H. Of this union were three children : Flora A., Esther P., and Mary C. Mason.
MAYNARD, ELISHA BURR, son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) Maynard, was born in Wilbraham, Hampden county, November 21, 1842.
He attended the schools of his native town until 1856, when he went to Spring- field, where he graduated from the high school, studying classics under Hon. M. P. Knowlton. Heentered Dartmouth College in 1863, spent the junior year at Amherst, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1867.
After leaving college he studied law at Springfield in the office of George M. Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. A year later he opened a law office in Springfield, form-
ing a partnership with Hon. William L. Smith, then mayor, in 1870, under the firm name of Smith & Maynard. This part- nership only lasted for three years, but Mr. Maynard has continued the practice of law in Springfield to the present time - for the past five years under the firm name of Maynard & Spellman.
On the 25th of August, 1870, Mr. May- nard was married to Kate C., daughter of Calvin and Sarah (Townshend) Doty of Springfield, Pa. Mrs. Maynard died April 4, 1889, leaving as children : Robert D., Ruth, and William Doty Maynard.
In 1872 and '73 Mr. Maynard was a member of the common council of Spring- field, in 1879 he was representative to the General Court, and for two years, 1887 and '88, he was mayor of Springfield. He is a trustee of the Springfield Hospital
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and of the Springfield Industrial and Technological school. In politics he is a Democrat.
MAYNARD, LORENZO, son of Amory and Mary (Priest) Maynard, was born at Marlborough, Middlesex county, on the 22d of June, 1829.
The common school and high school of Marlborough furnished him his means of obtaining an education. When seventeen years of age he moved with his parents to
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what is now known as Maynard, the place having been named for his father, in 1871. At that time there were not half a dozen dwellings in sight, and his first duty was to clear the brush from the present site of the extensive mills. The present popula- tion of three thousand, and the mills em- ploying a thousand hands, together with the general appearance of the place, speak for themselves of the energy, skill and temper of the man through whose care they have become what they are.
On the 2d of October, 1850, at Sudbury, Mr. Maynard was married to Lucy A., daughter of Peter and Lucy (Patch) Da- vidson, of Sterling. Of their five children (one son and four daughters) only the son, William Henry, survives.
Notwithstanding the demands of his extensive business, Mr. Maynard has at different times held the office of selectman, assessor and town treasurer of Maynard, and for many years has been deacon of the Congregational church and superintendent of the Sunday-school.
MCCALL, SAMUEL WALKER, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in East Providence, Pa., Feb-
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ruary 28, 1851. His family on both sides have been identified with Pennsylvania from its earliest history.
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Having fitted for college at New Hamp- ton (N. H.) Academy, he entered Dartmouth College in 1870, and was graduated in the class of 1874.
He then studied law with Staples & Goulding of Worcester, and was admitted to the Worcester county bar, and began the practice of law in Boston, January, 1876, in which profession he has since re- mained. The only time he has not de- voted himself to law practice was between May 1, 1888, and January 1, 1889, when he officiated as editor of the "Boston Ad- vertiser."
Mr. McCall was married in Lyndonville, Vt., May 23, 1881, to Ella Esther, daughter of Sumner S. and Harriet (Wiley) Thomp- son. Of this union are four children : Sum- ner Thompson, Ruth, Henry, and Catherine McCall.
He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives 1888 and '89, the latter year serving as chairman of the judiciary com- mittee. He was a delegate from the 6th district to the national Republican conven- tion at Chicago in 1888, where he seconded the nomination of General Gresham to the presidency.
His residence is Winchester.
MCDONOUGH, JOHN H., son of Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDon- ough, was born in Portland, Cumberland county, Maine, March 29, 1857.
His education was limited to the public schools of his native city. When thirteen years of age he began to learn the tailor- ing and clothing business, at which trade he worked until May, 1872, when he decided to learn the watch-making and jewelry busi- ness. He followed this trade fourteen years, eight in Portland, two at Auburndale watch- factory, and four years with the E. Howard Watch Company, Roxbury. After several years spent in Boston, Mr. McDonough left this industry, and choosing the pro- fession of law, began his preparatory studies and legal reading in the office of Hon. Charles J. Noyes.
He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1886, '87, '88 and '89, serving on the important committees on water sup- ply, election laws, and railroads. Four con- secutive years of service in the Massachu- setts Legislature by a young man while yet a law student, before his admission to the bar, is an unusual and highly honorable record. Mr. MeDonough himself may well be proud of a constituency that will exhibit such continued evidence of confidence in his efforts to serve them. His skill in debate, his oratorical powers, and his quick percep-
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