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. OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McREYNOLDS MARSLAND.) 



the Federal authorities. During the civil war he 

 was counsel for the Western Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany, and spent much time in New York, San 

 Francisco, and Paris. In 187G he was a delegate to 

 I lie National Democratic Convention that nomi- 

 nated Samuel J. Tilden. and also a State Senator ; 

 in 1878 and 1880 he was again elected to Congress ; 

 in 1883 was elected Governor of Maryland ; and in 

 1885-'81) was United States minister to France. 



MeRej nolds, Andrew Thomas, soldier, born in 

 Dungannon. Ireland, Dec. 25, 1800; died in Muskc- 

 gon/Mich., Nov. 25, 1898. He came to the United 

 States in 1830; lived for a time in Pittsburg, and, 

 in 1833, removed to Detroit. In 1834 he served as 

 major on the staff of Gen. Williams in the Toledo 

 war, and was one of the organizers of the Brady 

 Guards of Detroit. In 1838 he was elected alder- 

 man of Detroit ; in 1839 was a delegate to the Whig 

 National Convention at Ilarrisburg; and in 1840 

 was a representative in the Michigan Legislature. 

 In the same year he was chosen the first captain of 

 the Montgomery Guards, and he was also colonel of 

 the 1st Michigan Militia from 1840 till 1851. From 

 1842 till 1845 he was Indian agent for Michigan, 

 and in 1846-'47 was State Senator from Detroit. 

 He was commissioned a captain in the 1st United 

 States Dragoons in March, 1847, and served in the 

 Mexican War under Gen. Scott. He was first presi- 

 dent of the Detroit Board of Education in 1852 ; 

 prosecuting attorney of Wayne County in 1853-'55 ; 

 and candidate for circuit judge in 1857. He organ- 

 ized the first regiment of cavalry in the civil war 

 (the Lincoln Cavalry), and was commissioned its 

 colonel June 14, 1861. Subsequently he was in 

 command of a brigade for two years, and of a divi- 

 sion six months, and was honorably discharged 

 Aug. 22, 1864. He removed to Grand Rapids in 

 1866, served as United States district attorney for 

 western Michigan from 1866 till 1868, and "was 

 prosecuting attorney of Muskegon County from 

 1874 till 1876. Gen. McReynolds was for years 

 president of the Michigan Mexican Veteran Asso- 

 ciation, and at one time was department command- 

 er, Department of Michigan, G. A. R. 



Million. Isabel A Herd ice (known as Bab and 

 Ruth Ash more), author, born in Baltimore, Md., 

 July 13, 1857; died in New York city, Dec. 27, 

 1898. She was a member of the Sloan family of 

 Ilarford County, Md., and at the age of sixteen 

 married William T. Million, of Baltimore. With 

 her husband she spent some years abroad, and at 

 his death, obliged to support herself, she became a 

 newspaper correspondent. In 1888 she began writ- 

 ing the "Bab" letters, which were widely copied 

 and later were syndicated to various papers. She 

 continued writing them till a few weeks before her 

 final illness. Under the name of Ruth Ashmore 

 she wrote a series of letters, entitled "Side Talks 

 with Girls," for the "Ladies' Home Journal." A 

 collection of these letters was published in book 

 form in 1895. Just before her last illness she fin- 

 ished another book, "The Business Girl in Every 

 Phase of Life "(1898). 



Man-mi. Jules, geologist, born in Salins. Jura, 

 France. April 20,1824; (lied in Cambridge, Mass.. 

 April 17, 1898. He was educated at the College of 

 Besan9on and that of St. Louis in Paris, and ac- 

 quired a fondness for natural science while travel- 

 ing in Switzerland for his health. Here he became 

 acquainted with Jules Thurmann, whom later he 

 assisted in the geological survey of the Jura moun- 

 tains, and while engaged in this work he met the 

 late Louis Agassiz. In 1846 he was appointed as- 

 sistant in the mineralogical department of the Sor- 

 boiine. and also made a classification of fossils, and 

 in 1S47 was made traveling geologist for theJardin 

 des Plantes in Paris. Under the last commission 



he first came to the United States, and accompanied 

 Prof. Agassiz on his trip to the Lake Superior re- 

 gion in 1848. After six months of exploration he 

 went to Cambridge, Mass., where he classified and 

 sent to Paris a valuable collection of minerals. The 

 year 1849 he spent in studying the geology of New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the Mammoth 

 Cave, and the provinces of Canada. He returned 

 to Europe in 1850, but was soon again settled in 

 Cambridge. Entering the service of the United 

 States in 1853, he was the first geologist that crossed 

 the country, and made a section map of the thirty- 

 fifth parallel from the Mississippi river to the Pa- 

 cific Ocean. Impaired health led him to revisit 

 Europe, and during 1855-'59 he was Professor of 

 Geology in the Zurich Polytechnic School. In 

 1861 he returned to Cambridge, where he was asso- 

 ciated with Prof. Agassiz in founding the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, in which he took charge 

 of the division of palaeontology for three years. 

 From 1864 till 1875, when he re-entered the service 

 of the Government, he applied himself closely to 

 scientific research. He remained in the Govern- 

 ment service till within a few years of his death. 

 Besides many scientific memoirs and papers on the 

 Taconic system of New York, he published " Re- 

 cherches geologiques sur la Jura Salinois " (Paris, 

 1848) ; " Geological Map of the United States and 

 British Provinces of North America ' (2 vols., Bos- 

 ton, 1853); "Geology of North America" (Zurich, 

 1858); "Geological 'Map of the World" (Winter- 

 thur, 1861: 2d ed., Zurich, 1875); "Origin of the 

 Name America " (Boston, 1875 ; Paris, 1887) ; " First 

 Discoveries of California, and the Origin of its 

 Name" (Washington, 1878); and "A Catalogue of 

 Geological Maps of America" (Washington. 1884). 



Marsliind. Edward, engineer, born in New Cas- 

 tle, Westchester County, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1829 ; died 

 in Sing Sing, N. Y., June 25, 1898. He entered the 

 Allaire Iron Works, in New York city, as an appren- 

 tice in 1847, and four years afterward engaged with 

 the Collins line of steamships, rising to the rank 

 of first assistant engineer in a service of six and a 

 half years. Early in 1858 he was selected as second 

 engineer to go out on the Russian steam corvette 

 "Japanese," which had been built by William II. 

 Webb in New York. On arriving with the vessel 

 at Nikolaefsk, on the Amoor river, he was asked to 

 enter the service of the Russian Government, and 

 was commissioned chief engineer of the "Japanese." 

 Subsequently he was placed in charge of some com- 

 plicated machinery at Nikolaefsk, and was pro- 

 moted to the rank of fleet engineer of the Ifussian 

 squadron in Chinese waters. In August, 1800, lie 

 resigned his Russian commission and was given 

 hearty testimonials of his professional skill and 

 personal character. On returning to New York he 

 was appointed chief engineer of the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company. In August, 1861, he offered 

 his services to the United States Government, and 

 was appointed first assistant engineer in the navy. 

 lie was assigned to the" " Unadilla," the first gun- 

 boat placed in commission for the war. Impaired 

 health caused his retirement from the navy after a 

 service of three years, and he resumed connect ion 

 with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Later 

 he took the Italian frigate " Redon Luigi de Poeto- 

 gallo" to Italy and the ironclad ram " Diinder- 

 bcrg," which the United States had sold to France. 

 to Cherbourg. He then entered the United States 

 Engineer Corps, prepared the plans and specifica- 

 tions of the dredge boat "General McAllister," su- 

 perintended her construction in New York, and 

 took her to New Orleans, where he spent two years 

 in Mississippi jetty work. He resigned from the 

 Engineer Corps to become superintending engineer 

 of the Roach shipyard at Chester, Pa., where he 



