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 396 MARDEN. MARSHALL. at his own request, and served until he was mustered out in September, 1S64. 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 ,**r& *H9* GEORGE A MARDEN 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 "Advertiser," 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. Harden was elected a member of the House of Representatives for 1873. Li 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 1 888, 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 ln- fore the alumni of the same college al commencement in 1SS6 ; and has read poems on various occasions before mili- tary, press, and other associations. Mr. Harden 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. ('n the 10th of December, 1807. at Nashua, N. II., Mr. Marden was married to Mary P., daughter of David and Har- riet (Nourse) Liske, of thai city. They have two children: Philip Sanford, born January 12, 1S74, and Robert Fiske, born June 14, 1876. They now live at Lowell. MARSHALL, JAMES FOYVLL 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 ami I lerby 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. H. 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-