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1839, but retired from it one year later. After 

 various connections he became a partner in 1846 

 in the firm that was finally known as Marsh, 

 Talbot & Wilmarth. Mr. Marsh retired from 

 business Dec. 31, 1870. In 1802 he recruited the 

 47th Massachusetts Regiment, known as the 

 Merchant Guard, and on Oct. 30 was made its 

 colonel. He commanded part of Gen. Banks's 

 expedition to New Orleans, and in May, 1803, 

 he received command of the National troops at 

 Camp Parapet. Col. Marsh recruited a company 

 of negroes, which became the nucleus of the 2d 

 Regiment of Engineers. He held this point against 

 a large force of Confederates during the siege of 

 Port Hudson. In his later life he was deeply 

 interested in philanthropic work. 



Marshall, John Potter, educator, born in 

 Kingston, N. H., Aug. 11, 1823; died in Medford, 

 Mass., Feb. 5, 1901. He was graduated at Yale 

 in 1844, and for two years thereafter taught in 

 the Baptist Academy, Effingham, N. H. He 

 taught in the Liberal Institute, Lebanon, N. H., 

 for an equal period, and after a short interval of 

 teaching in his native town was invited to the 

 newly established High School in Danvers, Mass., 

 from which he went, in December, 1851, to the 

 High School in Chelsea. Thence he was called 

 in 1854 to become a professor in Tufts College. 

 He was the most active assistant of Dr. Ballou in 

 the organizing of the college, of which he was 

 the first professor appointed. In the beginning 

 he had charge of all the mathematics and science 

 taught, but his duties were afterward limited to 

 the teaching of geology and mineralogy. His 

 small private collection of minerals and fossils, 

 which he brought with him, was the nucleus of 

 the present splendid collections of the college. 



Mayo-Smith, Richmond, economist and edu- 

 cator, born in Troy, Ohio, Feb. 9, 1854; died in 

 New York, Nov. 11, 1901. He was graduated at 

 Amherst College in 1875, and studied at the uni- 

 versities of Berlin and Heidelberg from 1875 till 

 1877. He was appointed assistant in history and 

 political science at Columbia College in 1877; 

 was made adjunct professor in 1878, and Pro- 

 fessor of Political Economy and Social Science in 

 1883. He was also one of the original faculty 

 of the Columbia School of Political Science es- 

 tablished for graduate instruction and research 

 work in 1880. His chief work as a teacher 

 was with graduate students in this school, arid 

 his special subject was statistics, in which field 

 he was regarded as the highest academic author- 

 ity in the United States. Men trained by him 

 occupy chairs of political economy at Harvard, 

 Yale, Cornell, and other American universities; 

 others are active as statisticians in the Federal 

 and State service. He was an honorary fellow 

 of the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain, 

 a member of the International Statistical Insti- 

 tute, and vice-president of the American Statis- 

 tical Association. He was one of the founders 

 of the American Economic Association and a 

 member of the National Academy of Science. He 

 was an editor of the Political Science Quarterly 

 from its establishment in 1886, and a frequent 

 contributor to this and other scientific reviews. 

 His principal published works are Emigration 

 and Immigration (1890) ; Statistics and Sociology 

 (1895); and Statistics and Economics (189D). 



Meehan, Thomas, botanist and horticulturist, 

 born in England, March 21, 1826; died in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Nov. 19,. 1901. He was chiefly self- 

 educated, and was at one time head gardener to 

 Vernon Harcourt, at St. Clair, Isle of Wight. 

 He removed to the United States in 1848, and 

 at his death he was known as one of the fore- 

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most horticulturists and botanists in I IK- country. 

 He was the first to succeed in llowcnn^ the Vic- 

 toria regia in America. He look ;<n 'active in- 

 terest in public alfairs, serving roiM.muoii-ly in 

 the city council of Philadelphia at'ier l;ssii. and 

 as botanist of the Pennsylvania Sute. Hoard of 

 Agriculture from its formation till his lcat.h. For 

 twenty-three years he was senior vice-presidi.-nt 

 of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 

 He was at one time a member of the IJoani of 

 Visitors of Harvard University, and he had been 

 elected a member of every important botanical 

 and horticultural society of America and Europe. 

 He contributed many articles to scientific period- 

 icals on subjects of his life work. He was editor 

 of the Gardeners' Monthly Magazine from 1859 

 to 1889, and established, with' his sons, Meehan's 

 Monthly. For sixteen years he was agricultural 

 editor of Forney's Weekly Press. He published 

 The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees 

 (1853); The Flowers and Ferns of the United 

 States (serial, Meehan's Monthly, 1878 to 1891); 

 and many papers on original researches. 



Michie, Peter Smith, soldier and educator, 

 born in Brechin, Scotland, March 24, 1839; died 

 in West Point, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1901. He was 

 graduated at West Point in 1863, standing second 

 in his class, was commissioned 1st lieutenant of 

 engineers, June 11, and his first field service was 

 in the operations against Charleston. He after- 

 \vard distinguished himself in the battle of Olus- 

 tee, and in May, 1864, he was transferred to the 

 Army of the James, in Virginia, serving first as 

 assistant and afterward as chief engineer up to 

 the capitulation at Appomattox. He was com- 

 missioned captain, Nov. 23, 1865, and was brevet- 

 ted captain and major, Oct. 28, 1864, for gallant 

 and meritorious services in the campaign of 1864; 

 ' lieutenant-colonel, April 9, 1865, for gallant and 

 meritorious services in the campaign terminat- 

 ing at Appomattox; and brigadier-general of vol- 

 unteers, Jan. 1, 1865. In 1867 his scientific ac- 

 quirements led to his appointment as first assist- 

 ant in the Department of Engineering and Chem- 

 istry at West Point, and later as Professor of 

 Natural and Experimental Philosophy, where he 

 served till the time of his death. He received the 

 degree of Ph.D. from Princeton in 1871, of A.M. 

 from Dartmouth in 1873, and of LL. D. from 

 Union College in 1893. He was a member of the 

 Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Civil 

 Engineering of Dartmouth College after 1871. In 

 1870 he was a member of the military commission 

 that visited Europe to collect information for the 

 Government. He was the author of Elements of 

 Wave Motion relating to Sound and Light; Life 

 and Letters of Major-Gen. Emory Upton; Per- 

 sonnel of Sea-coast Defense; Elements of Ana- 

 lytical Mechanics; Elements of Hydro-mechanics; 

 Practical Astronomy; and Life of Gen. McClellan. 



Michler, Francis, soldier, born in New 

 York in 1849; died in Washington, D. C., May 

 29, 1901. He was graduated at West Point in 

 1870; commissioned 2d lieutenant, 5th Cavalry, 

 June 15, 1870, and assigned to service in Arizona. 

 He was commissioned 1st lieutenant, Nov. 12, 

 1876, and captain, May 23, 1888. He saw much 

 hard fighting against the Indians; was present 

 in the actions at Munchos Caiion, Sept. 25, 1872; 

 Red Rock, Dec. 7, 1872; Clear Creek, Jan. 2, 1873; 

 Tonto Creek, Jan. 22, 1873; and in the Mazatzel 

 mountains, March 19, 1873. He was brevetted 

 1st lieutenant, Feb. 27, 1890, for gallant services 

 in the Muchos Canon and Tonto Creek engage- 

 ments. He was made lieutenant-colonel of volun- 

 teers, May 9, 1898, and honorably discharged from 

 the volunteer service, May 12, 1899. At his death 



