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cessf ul. He invented a method of tanning hides, made an analysis of beer and wine for the New York senate, which was regarded as a standard for several years, and made many improvements in distilling, dyeing, color-making and other in- dustries. He removed to Newark, N.J., in 1847, engaged in farming, and edited the Working Farmer, which he founded in 1850. He intro- duced the use of superphosphates in 1849 and in 1859 received a patent on his formula. He was president of the Mechanics institute. New York city, and of the American institute, and organ- ized the Franklin institute of Newark, N.J. He was professor of chemistry and natural phil- osophy in the American institute, colonel in the New York state militia, and a member of varioas scientific societies in the United Stsites and in Europe. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Williams in 1840; was editor of the Jour- nal of Agriculture, and The American Repository of Arts, Sciences and Manufactures (1840). He died in New Y'ork city, Jan. 10, 1866.

MARBLE, Manton, journalist, was born in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 16, 1834; son of Joel and Nancy Chapin (Goes) Marble, and a descendant of Deacon Solomon and Jerusha (Greenwood) Marble of Millbury Mass., through Samuel and Freegrace Marble of Marble Ridge, near Andover, Mass., and of Thaddeus and Lucy (Whitney) Chapin. Solo- mon Marble fought at Bunker Hill, Saratoga and Yorktown. Manton Marble was graduated at Albany academy, 1853; University of Rochester, 1855; was assistant editor of the Boston Journal, 1855-56; editor of the Boston Traveler, lSoQ-57; served on the staff of the Evening Post, 1858-60, and World, New Y'ork city, 1860-63,and was editor . and proprietor of the World, 1863-76. He sustained the government, but opposed exorbitances of ex- ecutive power, a federal revenue tax, the sub- stitution of greenbacks for money, negro suf- frage and the impeachment of the executive. He wrote the Democratic state platform in 1874, tiie Democratic national platform in 1876 and most of the platform of 1884. He supported the negotiations leading to the Washington Treaty and to the Geneva arbitration. He was sent to Europe in 1885 by President Cleveland as special envoy to confer with the governments of Great Britain, France and Germany, and reported the opposition of the British ministry to the re- sumption of free bi-metallic coinage as fatal to liopes for its adoption by the other powers. He gave early publicity in the United States to the writings of Herbert Spencer; was elected a member of the Century association in 1860; was a founder of the Manhattan club, 1865; was made an honorary member of the Cobden club, 1873, and the Round Table, 1878, and was president of the Manhattan club, 1884-89. He is the author of:

TJie Presidential, Counts (IS":!); Notes on the Out- look on Life; being selections fromprivate MSS. of Alexander Gardiner Mercer, S. T. D. (1899), and articles in the World under his own signature, in- cluding: Letters to Abraham Lincoln and A Secret Chapter of Political Histoi-y (1878).

MARBLB, Sebastien Streeter, governor of Maine, was born in Dixfield, Maine, March 1, 1817; son of Ephraim and Hannah (Packard) Marble and grandson of John and Lucretia (Richardson) Marble. He attended the public schools of Oxford county, and the Waterville academy; studied law, 1830-43, and practised in Waldoboro, Maine. He was married, Oct. 17, 1846, to Mary S. fiUis. He was deputy collector of customs, 1861-63; collector of customs, 1§63- 66; register in bankruptcy, 1867-70; U.S. mar- shal, 1870-78, and state senator, 1882-87. He was- a member of the Republican state committee for fifteen years, and governor of Maine, 1887-89. He died at Waldoboro, Maine, May, 10, 1902.

MARCH, Daniel, clergyman and author, was born in Millbury, Mass., July 21, 1816; sou of Sam- uel and Zoa March, grandson of Jacob March, and a descendant of Hugh March, the emigrant, 1653. • He attended Amherst, 1834-36, and was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1840, A.M., 1843, and from Yale Theological seminary in 1845. He was licensed to preach in 1841, was ordained, April 25, 1845, by the New Haven association, and was pastor in Cheshire, Conn., and of the First church, Nashua, N.H., successively, 1845-56; of the Clinton Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1862-79; of the First Congregational church, Woburn, Mass., 1856-62, and 1879-95, and pastor emeritus of the latter after 1895. He travelled extensively in Asia, India, China and Egypt. He was mar- ried, Oct. 8, 1841, to Jane P., daughter of Abel and Anna Gilson of Proctorsville, Vt., and their son, Frederick William, born 1847 (Amherst, 1867; Princeton Theological seminary, 1873), was appointed missionary to Syria in 1873. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1864. He is the author of: Walks and Homes of Jesus (1866); Night Scenes in the Bible (1868); Our Father's House (1870); Froin Dark to Daum (1873); Home Life in the Bible (1875); The First Khedive, and Morning Light in Many Lands. He was residing in Woburn, Mass., in 1902.

MARCH, Francis Andrew, philologist, was born in Millbury, Mass., Oct. 25, 1825; son of Andrew and Nancy (Parker) March; grandson of Tappan and Hannah (Patch) March, and of Arron and Sophia Parker, and a descendant of Hugh and Judith March. Hugh March, born in 1620, came from England, settled at Newbury, Mass., in 1653, and in 1658, at the solicitation of his townsmen, left his farm and set up the first