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for many years. Francis studied in the public schools of Worcester, Mass., graduated at Am- herst in 1845 ; taught academies at Svvanzey, N.H., and at Leicester, Mass., 1845-47, and was a
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tutor at Amherst, 1847-49. He studied law in New York city, 1849-50, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. On account of ill-health he went to Fredericksburg, Va., where he taught, 1852-55. He was a tutor in Lafayette college, Easton, Pa., 1855-56, adjunct pro- fessor of belles lettres and English liter- ature, 1856-57, and in 1857 was made professor of the English language and compara- tive philology. He was also a lecturer in the law department of Lafayette college, 1875-77. He was a pioneer in the philological study of the English classics and the historical study of the English language. He was president of the American Philological association, 1873-74, and 1895-96 ; of the Spelling Reform association from 1876, and of the Modern Language association, 1891-93. He was elected vice-president of the New Sliakspere society established in London in 1874, an honorary member of the Philological society of London, of the L' Association Fonetique des Professeurs de Langages vivantes of Paris ; a member of the National council of education in 1883, and of numerous learned societies. He also served as chairman of the commission of the state of Pennsylvania on amended orthography. He received the degrees LL.D. from the Col- lege of New Jersey in 1870, and from Amherst in 1871; L.H.D. from Columbia in 1887 ; D.C.L. from Oxford, England, in 1896, and Litt.D. from Cam- bridge, England, and from Princeton in 1896. He married, Aug. 12, 1860, Mildred Stone, daugh- ter of Waller Peyton Conway of Falmouth, Va., a descendant of the Washington family, and great granddaughter of Thomas Stone, the signer. Their son, Alden March (born Sept. 29, 1869, Lafayette, 1890), was news editor of the Philadel- phia Press after 1891, and Sunday editor, 1898- 99 ; and the author of The Conquest of the Philip- pines and our Other Island Possessions (1899). Dr. March was the most frequent contributor to the transactions and proceedings of the American Philological association ; contributed articles on philology to the publications of the United States bureau of education, the National Educational

association, the Modern Language association, the Spelling Reform association, the " Jahrbuch fiir romanische und englische Literatur," in Berlin, and "Englische Studien," Heilsbronn. He also contributed variously to encyclopaedias and period- icals, his writings including articles on jurispru- dence and psychology in the Princeton Revieio, one of which was reprinted in Edinburgh in 1861. He edited a series of college text-books of the Greek and Latin Christian authors including "Latin Hymns" (1874); " Eusebius " (1874) •' Tertullian " (1875); " Athenagoras " (1876) " Justin Martyr " (1877) ; superintended the work of the American readers for the Pliilological society (England), for the Historical Dictionary of English, published by the University of Ox- ford (1884 et seq), and was consulting editor of " A Standard Dictionary of the English Language," (1893-1900). He is the author of : A Method of Philological Study of the English Language (1865) ; Parser and Analyzer for Beginners (1869) : A Comparative Grammar of Anglo-Saxon (1870) ; Introduction to Anglo-Saxon (1871).

MARCH, John, colonial soldier, was born in Newbury, Mass., June 10, 1658 ; son of Hugh and Judith March. He received a good education and in 1688 was a captain under Sir Edmund Andros in the campaign against the French and Indians. He completed and commanded the fort at Pemaquid, Maine, 1692-95 ; was promoted major, and commanded the troops that defeated the Indians and checked the French army under Count de Frontenac at Damariscotta, Maine, in 1697. He continued a prominent officer in the Colonial army ; attained the rank of colonel in the wars of 1703 and 1707, and commanded the expedition sent by Gov. Joseph Dudley against the fort at Port Royal, in twenty-three transports under convoy of the Deptford, an English ship of war. He landed his men and attacked the fort in accordance with the orders of Governor Dud- ley, but the tardy arrival of the Deptford had enabled the garrison to prepare, and being un- supported by the Deptford the expedition failed. He died in 1725.

MARCHAND, John Bonnett, naval officer, was born in Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 27, 1808 ; son of David Marchand, representative in the 15th and 16th congresses. He was warranted mid- shipman in the U.S. navy. May 1, 1828, and was promoted passed midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; lieutenant, Jan. 29, 1840 ; commander, Sept. 14, 1856; captain, July 16, 1862; and commodore, July 25, 1866. He commanded the steamer Van Buren in the war with the Seminole Indians, 1841-42 ; engaged in the bombardment of Vera Cruz and the capture of Tuspan, 1847; com- manded the steamer Memphis in the Paraguay expedition of 1859-60 ; commanded the steamer