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Nancy, daughter of John and Lydia (Buell) Col- lias. Slie died June 18, 1793, and he was married eecondly, June 3, 1798, to Susan (Perkins) Arnold, daughter of Dr. Elisha and Sarah (Douglas) Perkins of Plainfield, Conn., and the widow of Josias Lyndon Arnold of Vermont. He died at Woodstook. Vt.. Jan. 11. 1849.

MARSH, Charles Dwight, biologist, was born in Hadley, Mass., Dec. 20, 1855 ; son of J. D wight and Sarah L. (Ingram) Marsh and grandson of Jonathan and Harriet (Warner) Marsh. His first ancestor in America, John Marsh, immigrated to Hartford, Conn., in 1636, and removed to Hadley, Mass.. in 1660. Charles prepared for college in Hopkins acaden^y, Hadley, and w*as graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1880. He taught in high scliools and academies in Massachusetts, 1877-83 : was professor of cliemistry and biology in Ripon college. Wis., 1883-89, was made pro- fessor of biology in 1889, and became dean of the faculty in 1900. He was a member of the county board, 1896-98 ; and secretary of the board of commissioners of the geological and natural his- tory survey of Wisconsin in 1897. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1893, and president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in 1897. He was married, Dec. 27, 1883, to Florence Lee, daughter of Charles and Emily B. (Johnson) Wilder. He is the author of : papers on fresh-water capepoda, and numerous other biological essays.

MARSH, Qeorge Perkins, diplomatist, was born in Woodstock, Vt., March 15, 1801 ; son of Charles (q.v.) and Susan (Perkins) Arnold Marsh. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1820, studied law in the office of his father at Wood- stock, Vt., and settled in practice there in 1825. He was a Whig representative in the state legislature, and a member of the supreme council of Vermont in 1835. He was a Whig repre- sentative in the 28th, 29th and 30th con- gresses, 1843-49, and was re-elected to the 31st congress, but did not take his seat, resigning in 1849, on being appointed by President Taylor U.S. minister to Turkey, where he served, 1849-53. He was charged with a special mission to Greece in 1852. In 1857 he made a report to the state legislature on the artificial propagation of fish ; was railroad

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commissioner for Vermont, 1857-59, and was appointed U.S. minister to Italy by President Lincoln in 1861, and served until 1882. His term of service as a diplomat is said to have exceeded that of any other U.S. minister. He acquired a knowledge of the Scandinavian languages, and became the owner of a fine collection of Scandi- navian literature. He delivered a course of lec- tures on the English language at Columbia college, 1858-59, and one on the grammatical history of English literature before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., 1859-60. He received the degree LL.D. from Harvard and Delaware colleges in 1859, and from Dartmouth college in 1860. He was married, April 10, 1828, to Harriet, daughter of Ozias Buell of Burlington, Vt.; and in 1839 to Caroline, daughter of Benjamin Crane of Berkley, Mass., and sister of the Rev. Silas Axtell Crane (q.v.). Mr. Marsh was a mem- ber or fellow of Royal Scientific societies. He contributed to reviews and periodicals ; edited an American edition of Hensleigh Wedgwood's "Dictionary of English Etymology " with addi- tions (1862); translated from the giammar of Rask " A Compendious Grammar of the Old Northern or Icelandic Language "(1838), and is the author of : The Camel, his Organization, Habits and Uses, Considered with Reference to his Intro- duction into the United States (1836) ; Lectures on the English Language (1861) ; Origin and History of the English Language (1862), and Man and Nature (1864), translated into Italian (1870) and almost wholly rewritten and published under the title The Earth as Modified by Human Action (1874). See " Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh "by his widow (1888). He died in Vallombrosa, Italy, July 23, 1882.

MARSH, James, educator, was born in Hart- ford, Vt., July 19, 1794 ; son of Daniel and Marion (Harper) Marsh ; grandson of Lieut. -Gov. Joseph and Dorothy (Mason) Marsh, and of Col. James Harper of East Windsor, Conn., and a descendant of John Marsh (born 1618; who came to Massa- chusetts from England in 1635, settled at New- town, removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636, where in 1640 he married Anne, daughter of Governor John Webster, and in 1660 became one of the first settlers of Hadley, Mass. James was brought up on his father's farm, prepared for college, and was graduated valedictorian at Dartmouth in 1817. He was a student at Andover Theological seminary, 1817-18, a tutor at Dartmouth college, 1818-20 ; and was graduated at Andover in 1822. He lost his health by over study, and in 1824 went to Hampden-Sidney college, Va., where he edited the college magazine and was professor of languages and Biblical literature, 1824-26. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Hanover, Mass., Oct. 12, 1824. He was president