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 MARKS

MARMADUKE

by President Jacksor in 1827; and was attorney- general of Pennsylvania. 1829-30. He died at Spang'.s Hotel. Norristowu, Pa., in 1834.

MARKS, Albert Smith, governor of Tennessee, was born near Owensboro, Ky., Oct. 16, 1836; son of Elisha and Elizabeth (Sashbrooke) Marks, and a descendant of John Marks, an early settler of Virginia. He removed to Tennessee with his parents, and on the death of bis father in 1850 the manage- ment of the family estate fell upon him. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and prac- tised in Winchester, Tenn. When Tennessee seceded in 1861, he joined the Confeder- ate army as captain in the 17th Tennessee regi- ment, and reached the rank of colonel. He re- ceived a wound while leading a charge at Murfrees- boro which rendered necessary the amputation of his foot. After his return to the field he served as judge advocate on the staff of General Forrest. He was married in 1863 to Novella, daughter of Maj. John R. Davis. He resumed his legal prac- tice in 1865; was elected chancellor for the 4th chancery division of Tennessee in 1870, and was governor of Tennessee, 1879-81. After 1881 he practised law in Nashville. He was a delegate to the Democratic state convention in 1882, and in 1887 was a candidate for the U.S. senate before the Democratic caucus and after 68 ballots William B. Bat^s was nominated and elected. He was a presidential elector for the state at large on the Cleveland ticket in 1888. He died in Nashville, Tenn.. Nov. 4, 1891.

MARKS, William, senator, was born in Ches- ter county. Pa., Oct. 13, 1778. At an early age he removed to Beaver, Pa., with his parents, who were among the pioneer settlers of that place. He learned the tanner's trade; was a Democratic representative in the state legislature, 1810-19; and a state senator, 1820-25, and president of that body, 1821-25. He resigned in 1825 to take his seat in the U.S. senate, to which he had been elected by the Democratic legislature, and he was re-elected in 1831, serving 1825-37. He was chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. He died in Beaver, Pa., April 10, 1858.

MARKS, William Dennis, engineer, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 26, 1849; son of Dennis and Amira (Bacon) Marks. He attended Wash- ington university, St. Louis, Mo., and General Russell's school at New Haven, Conn., and was graduated from Yale university, Ph.B., 1870, C.E., 1871. He was Whitney professor of dynam. ical engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1877-87, president and engineer of the Edison Electric Light company of Philadelphia, 1887-96, and was made president of the General Electric

Automobile company of Philadelphia in 1898. He was elected a member of the American Philosoph- ical society in 1877; an honorary life member of the Franklin Institute in 1885 and a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1886. He was married in 1874 to Jeannette Holmes Col well, who died in 1894. He is the author of The Relative Proportions of the Steam Engine (1884) and Revised Xystroms Mechanics (1886).

MARLOWE, Julia. See Taber, Julia Mar- lowe.

MARMADUKE, John Sappington, governor of Missouri, was born near Arrow Rock, Mo., March 14, 1833; son of Meredith Miles Marma- duke (q.v.). He was a student at Yale college 1850-52, at Harvard, 1852-53, and was graduated at the U. S. Military academy July 1, 1857. He was brevetted 2d lieutenant, 7th in- fantry, Aug. 1, 1857, and was attached to the Utah expedition, 1858-60. He was stationed at Fort Webster, New Mex- ico, 1860-61, and re- signed from the U. S. army, April 17, 1861. He raised a company of state guards in Missouri and was elected col- onel of a regiment which he commanded at Booneville, June 17, 1861. Disapproving the military plans of Governor Jackson, his uncle, he resigned his commission and offered his services to President Davis. He was commis- sioned 1st lieutenant and assigned to Gen. W. J. Hardee's staff, serving in southeastern Arkansas. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and later in 1861, colonel of the 3d Confederate infantry in Hindman's brigade, Hardee's corps. Army of Mississippi. He commanded his regiment at Shiloh, where he was wounded, and he was pro- moted brigadier- general for gallantry in that battle. He was transferred to the Trans-Missis- sippi depjirtment in August, 1862, and com- manded the fourth cavalry division in General Hindman's army in northwestern Arkansas and Missouri. He was in Missouri in 1863, assisted General Carter and his command in their escape near Girardeau; and in the attack on Helena, July 4, 1863, he commanded his cavalry division in Holmes's army, and opposed Gen. Frederick Steele's advance on Little Rock, Aug. 1-Sept. 14, 1863, where he was in Price's corps, E. Kirby Smith's army, and covered the retreat of Price's

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