MARION 



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MARIUS 



the Federal building, erected in 1907, a public 

 library with 15,715 volumes, the gift of Senator 

 Stephenson, and Our Lady of Lourdes' In- 

 stitute. C.R.J. 



MA'RION, FRANCIS (1732-1795), one of the 

 most daring of colonial leaders in the American 

 Revolution. His grandfather was a Huguenot 

 refugee whose independent and brave spirit 

 was inherited by the boy. As lieutenant, he 

 commanded a troop of colonists against the 

 Cherokee Indians in 1761. In 1775 he was a 

 member of the provincial congress. He entered 

 the army as captain after the Declaration of 

 Independence, was soon raised to the rank of 

 major, and in 1780 was made brigadier-general 

 of the South Carolina state troops. This com- 

 mand was not strong, for his men were poorly 

 equipped and insufficiently fed. However, with 

 their help he succeeded in making communica- 

 tion impossible for British posts in the Caro- 

 linas, took many prisoners, relieved surrounded 

 troops, and took part in important victories, 

 notably at Nelson's Ferry and Eutaw Springs. 

 The British officer, Colonel Tarleton, who was 

 especially ordered to take him, said he could 

 not catch the "old swamp fox." After the war 

 Marion was made commander of Fort Johnson, 

 and was for several terms a member of the 

 state senate of South Carolina. 



MARION, IND., the county seat of Grant 

 County, is situated northeast of the geograph- 

 ical center of the state, on the Mississinewa 

 River (west fork of the White River). Indian- 

 apolis is seventy-three miles southwest, Chicago 

 is 157 miles northwest, and Detroit is 234 miles 

 northeast. Four trunk lines serve the city 

 the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint 

 Louis; Pennsylvania; the Toledo, Saint Louis 

 & Western, and the Chesapeake & Ohio rail- 

 ways; interurban electric lines connect with 

 Indianapolis and other cities. Marion was set- 

 tled in 1832, was incorporated in 1887 and was 

 named in honor of General Francis Marion, a 

 Revolutionary leader. The population in- 

 creased from 19,359 in 1910 to 19,834 in 1916 

 (Federal estimate) ; ninety per cent are Ameri- 

 cans. The area is nearly five square miles. 



Through excellent transportation Marion is a 

 commercial center of importance, the principal 

 articles shipped being the products of its own 

 manufacture and of the surrounding agricul- 

 tural region. These include corn, wheat, oats, 

 cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, glass, flour, linseed- 

 oil, paper, pulp, bricks, foundry products, shoes 

 and gasoline motors. The railway tonnage 

 shipped is nearly a thousand tons daily. Nat- 



ural gas found in the vicinity and water power 

 furnished by the river increase the manufac- 

 turing interests. The city has a $125,000 Fed- 

 eral building, erected in 1908, a Masonic 

 Temple, a fine courthouse, and Y. M. C. A. and 

 Y. W. C. A. buildings. Beside its public schools 

 it has Marion Normal Institute, a busine'ss col- 

 lege and a Carnegie Library. Three miles 

 south of the city is located a National Soldiers' 

 Home, erected at a cost of $1,500,000. H.E.T. 



MARION, OHIO, the county seat of Marion 

 County, is forty-five miles north of Columbus, 

 the state capital, and seventy-five miles south- 

 east of Toledo. It is on the Cleveland, Cin- 

 cinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis, the Hocking 

 Valley, the Pennsylvania and the Erie rail- 

 roads, and has electric lines to Mansfield and 

 Columbus. The area of the city is about six 

 square miles. The population in 1910 was 

 18,232; in 1916 it was 23,430 (Federal esti- 

 mate). 



The city contains a Federal building, erected 

 in 1910 at a cost of $90,000, a Carnegie Library, 

 an Elks' Home, three private hospitals, a nor- 

 mal school, an Old Ladies' Home and the 

 Marion County Children's Home. The impor- 

 tance of the city's steam shovel manufactories 

 has given Marion the name of "Steam Shovel 

 City." One factory employs 2,000 men, and 

 its annual output is valued at $10,000,000. 

 Other manufactures are iron, silk, pianos, racing 

 sulkies, dredges, farming implements and 

 steam engine and boiler works. Near the city 

 are large limestone quarries. 



Marion- was settled in 1815, incorporated in 

 1820 and became a city in 1890. C.B.H. 



MARIUS, may'rius, CAIUS (about 156-86 

 B. c.), a great Roman military leader and a fear- 

 less warrior, before whom it is said men dropped 

 their swords in terror. He was born of obscure 

 parents and was uneducated, rude and arrogant. 

 He first won military distinction in Spain, dur- 

 ing the Numantine War, and from that time 

 his rise was rapid. He was elected tribune, 

 and soon acquired power and social stand- 

 ing by his marriage with Julia, aunt of Julius 

 Caesar. In 114 B.C. he cleared Further Spain 

 of robbers, and in 107 was elected consul and 

 intrusted with the conduct of the Jugurthine 

 War, which he successfully ended. 



Having become the most conspicuous officer 

 in the Roman army, Marius was called to the 

 consulship the second time and was sent to 

 defend the Roman dominions against a horde 

 of German barbarians who had broken into 

 Gaul. These he annihilated in the famous two- 



