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��HON. DANIEL MARCY.

���HON. DANIEL MARCT.

��Perkins of Dover, and died some years ago, at about sixty years of age, leaving his Wife and three children. The widow and two surviving daughters still reside in New Orleans.

Peter Marcy, the second son, was ap- prenticed at an early age to Isaac Nelson, a prominent ship carpenter of Ports- mouth, with whom he served the usual term of seven years, completing his ser- vice in 1828, when about twenty-one years of age. With a full stock of Yan- kee "pluck" and courage as his capital, with his chest of tools, he immediately embarked for New Orleans in the ship Wm. Badger, paying twenty-five dol- lars passage money, and working at his trade upon the ship during the voyage. Arriving in New Orleans, he was not long in laying the foundation for future success. He built the first dry dock in that city, and soon established a large and profitable business, in which, to- gether with his subsequent shipping ven- tures, in company with Daniel, he has gained an ample fortune, although suf- fering greatly, as a matter of course, through the losses and depreciation con-

��sequent upon the late unhappy civil war. He has been prominently engaged in public affairs, and was for sixteen years a member of the Louisiana Legis- lature, and has held and retains in the fullest degree the confidence of the peo- ple among whom he resides. Although retired from public life and active busi- ness, he is still in the enjoyment of vig- orous health and mental activity, and manifests a lively interest in all matters looking to a restoration of the commer- cial and general prosperity of the coun- try. '* Waverley," his family seat, locat- ed across the river in Algiers, now a part of the city of New Orleans, is the abode of substantial comfort and ele- gance, and commands an extensive view of the city and shipping. His wife was an accomplished Southern lady, intelli- gence of whose sudden death has just been received at Portsmouth at the time of writing this article. He has five chil- dren, two sons and three daughters.

Daniel Marcy, the subject of our sketch, at twelve years of age, or about the time of his father's death, went to work upon a farm in the vicinity, but the

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