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senate in 1896 and was secretary of that body, 1896-11)00. He was also vice-president of the Methodist College President association, 1892-93. He received the degrees D.D. from Mount Union college in 1888, and LL.D. from Allegheny col- lege. 1893. He (lied in Alliance, O.. July 23, 1903.

MARSHALL, Charles, educator and soldier, was born in Warrenton, Va., Oct. 3, 1830; son of Alexander John Marshall and great grandson of Thomas Marshall (1655-1704). He was graduated from the University of Virginia A.B., 1846, A.M., 1849; was professor of mathematics at the Uni- versity of Indiana, 1849-52; studied law, and began practice in Baltimore, Md. He returned to Virginia in 1861, joined the Confederate army, 1862, and served on the personal staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee as assistant adjutant and inspector- general with the rank of 1st lieutenant. He was appointed major and aide-de-camp to General Lee and served with him in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-65. He attained the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel, and with Gen. Horace Porter he arranged the terms of the surrender of the Con- federate army at Appomattox. He prepared a general order containing General Lee's farewell address to his army. He practised law in Balti- more, 1865-1902, and wrote a life of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He died in Baltimore, Md., April 19, 1902.

MARSHALL, Charles Henry, shipping mer- chant, was born at Easton, N.Y., April 8, 1792; son of Charles and Hephzebah (Coffin) Marshall, and grandson of Capt. Benjamin Marshall, and of Capt. Nathan Coffin, both of Nantucket, Mass. He received a limited education, and at the age of fifteen joined the crew of the whaling ship Lima, Captain Swain, at Nantucket. He made several voyages, 1807-12, and meanwhile studied and taught in Northampton, N. Y. He was second mate and mate on the ship Mary, bound from New York to Oporto, 1815-16; entered the Liverpool trade as first mate of the Albert Oalla- tin in 1816, and later in 1816 commanded the Julius Ccesar, owned by Philetus and Gabriel Haven. In 1817 he took command of the James Cropper, a Liverpool packet ship, belonging to the Black Ball Line. He was married in 1822 to Fidelia, daughter of Dr. Lemuel Williams of Piermont. He commanded the Britannia and South America of the same line, and in 1834 as- sumed the management of the line, later becom- ing the principal proprietor, and retained the business for thirty years. He built and equipped several vessels; carried the packet service to its higliest point of utility, and as sailing vessels gradually gave way to steamers he employed his packet ships in other lines of traffic. He built and equipped the steamer United States, on the route between New York and Southamp- ton, but the vessel was sold to the Prussian gov-

ernment for war purposes. He was commis- sioner of emigration at New York, 1851-55; chairman of the executive committee of the New York Chamber of Commerce for several years; president of the Marine society for twenty years; a trustee of the Sailor's Snug Harbor, and refused the presidency of the Chamber of Com- merce, as its acceptance would necessitate his retirement from the former institution. He was a member of the board of pilot commissioners for the port of New York, 1845-65, and aided the Seamen's Fund and Retreat, and the Home for Seamen's Children. He was an original member of the Union Defence Committee organized April 20, 1861; a founder of the Union League club, and its third president. He visited Europe in 1865, and died in New York city Sept. 23, 1865.

MARSHALL, Edward Chauncey, author, was born in Little Falls, N.Y., July 8, 1824. He was a descendant of Edward Marshall who settled in Boston, Mass., in 1634. He was graduated at Geneva college, valedictorian, A.B., 1843, A.M., 1846. He was a tutor in mathematics there, 1845-47; tutor at the U.S. Military academy. West Point, 1847-49; the New York Free acad- emy, 1849-52, and professor in the Episcopal High school, Alexandria, Va., 1852-55. He was admitted to the diaconate of the P.E. church in 1855 and to the priesthood in 1856 and was dejx)sed in 1867. He was an officer in the U.S. custom- house in Virginia, 1867-71. and in the New York custom-house, 1871-75. He was editoriallj* con- nected with the New York daily newspapers, 1875- 85, and in 1885 became a financial agent of the American Protective League. He invented the rubber arctic overshoe while at Geneva college and subsequently a dial plate for registering fares in street-car lines. He is the author of: Book of Oratory (1852); History of the U.S. Naval Academy (1862); Ancesti^y of General Grant (1869); Are West Point Graduates Loyal (1862). He died in New York city, Nov. 5, 1898. *

MARSHALL, Elisha Qaylord, soldier, was born at Seneca Falls, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1829. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1850, served on frontier dut}', 1850-58; was pro- moted 2d lieutenant and assigned to the 6th in- fantry. May 15, 1851, and served on the Utah expedition and on the march to California in 1858. He was at Benicia, Cal, 1858-59; Fort Morgan, N.M., 1859-60, and on recruiting service, 1860-61. He was a mastering and disbursing officer at Rochester, N.Y., 1861-62; was promot- ed captain. May 14, 1861, and was transferred to the volunteer service as colonel of the 13th New York volunteers, April 20, 1862. He served with the Array of the Potomac on the Peninsula, April to July, 1862; and wasbrevetted major, June 27, 1862, for Gaines's Mill. He took part in the battles