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 MARSHALL

MARSTON

MARSHALL, William Edgar, i)ortrait painter, was born in New York city, June 30, 1837. He was educated in the public schools and in 1858 engaged as an engraver with the American Bank Note company. Subsequently he engraved large portraits in line, and painted portraits in oil. He settled in Boston, Mass., as a iKjrtrait painter, where he painted portraits of several prominent persons. He travelled in Euroi>e, 1864- 66, residing chiefly in Paris, where he exhibited in the Salons of 1865 antl 1866 and made the ac- quaintance of Paul Gustave Dore. He esUblished liis studio in New York city in 1866, and turned his attention to line portrait engraving, his more noteworthy achievements including engravings after Stuart's Washington (1862) and his own Lincoln (laW). He engraved a head of Christ from the portrait by Da Vinci, to illustrate Henry Ward Beecher's "Life of Jesus the Christ" (1871). He painted a head of Christ from a co- lossal clay model of his own design and construc- tion, and in 1880 he made a copy in line engraving. Among many well-known portraits engraved by hira are Longfellow, Cooper, Beecher, Grant, Blaine, Hancock, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt. Most of these were engraved from his portraits of the subjects (minted in oil.

MARSHALL, William Ralney, governor of Minnesota, was born near Columbia, Mo., Oct. 17, 1825 ; son of Joseph and Abigail Black (Shaw) Marshall; grandson of David and Sarah (Graham) Marshall, 'and of Samuel Shaw, a native of Ireland, who settled in Cum- borland county, Pa., 1767, served in the Revolutionary war and removed to Bourbon county, Ky., in 1795, and to Quincy, III., in 1829. His first ancestor in America, Joseph Marshall,a native of Ireland, of Scotch descent, settled in Cumberland county, Pa., before 1750. His father removed to Quincy, III., in 18i30, and he attended the public s«;hools. He worked with his brother in the Galena lead mines in Wisconsin, 1842-47. In June, 1847, having acquired some capital, he removed to St. Croix Falls, Wis. Ter., afterward Minnesota, and engaged in the survey of public lands. He was elected a representative in the Wisconsin legislature, 1848, but on account of a change of boundaries did not take his seat. He removed to St. Anthony's Falls in 1848, and with his brother Joseph established the first store in what became Minneapolis, Minn., and he represented his dis- trict in the territorial legislature in 1849, He was married, March 22, 1854, to Abby Elliot, daughter of George and Chloe (Sweeting) Lang- ford of Utica, N.Y. He engaged in banking at St. Paul, Minn., 1855-57, and in January, 1861,

established with J. A. Wheelock, the St. Paul Daily Press, and conducted it until August, 1862. In 1863 he enlisted in the 7th Minnesota volun- teer infantry, was commissioned lieutenant- colonel and engaged in subduing the Sioux Indians, 1862-63. He was promoted colonel and commanded the 3d bri^'ade, 1st division. Army of the Tennessee at the battle of Nashville, Deo. 15- 16, 1804, and was wounded at the siege of Mobile. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious con- duct during the war. He returned to St. Paul, and was governor of Minnesota, 1865-69. He was a railroad commissioner for Minnesota, 1874- 81. He died in Pasadena, Cal., April 4, 1895.

MARSTON, Qeorge W., composer, was born at Sandwich, Mass., May 23, 1840 ; son of William

and (Howland) Marston, and a descendant

of Jolm Howland of the Mayflower. William Mareton was a native of England and was brought to the United States by his parents. George attended the public schools and Sandwich academy ; began the study of music in 1852, and became organist of the Congregational church at Sandwich in 1856 and subsequently taught the piano and was organist of the Baptist church, at "Waterville, Maine. In 1860 he settled in Portland, Maine, where he pursued his studies under John W. Tufts and continued teaching. He also visited Europe twice and studied the pianoforte under Buonamici in Florence and composition in Germany, and on his return set- tled in Boston, Mass., as a teacher. The numer- ous ballads composed by him include : Across the Far Blue Hills, Marie ; Marguerite and Doug- Uis Tender and True. He also composed the dramatic cantata David ; two books of German Lieder; a book of English songs Orave and Oay, and many Te Deums, anthems, songs and piano pieces. He died in Sandwich, Mass., Feb. 2, 1901.

MARSTON, Oilman, representative, was born in Oxford, N.H., Aug. 20, 1811 ; son of Jeremiah and Theda (Sawyer) Marston ; grandson of Jere- miah and Hannah (Fowle) Marston ; and great- grandson of Jeremiah and Tabitha (Dearborn) Marston. His ancestor, William Mai-ston, came from Yorkshire county, England, to Salem, Mass., in 1634, with his family and brothers Rol)ertand John ; removed to Newbury in 1C;{7, and in Octo- ber, 1638, was among the fifty-six first settlers at Hampton. His first wife died in 1660, and he was married secondly in 1662 to Sabrina, daugh- ter of Robert Page of Yarmouth, England. Gil- man Marston spent his boyhood on his father's farm, taught school to jmy liis way through to college and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1837. He was principal of an academy in Indianapolis, Ind.. 1837-38, and was graduated at the Harvard Law school in 1840. He was admitted to the bar