The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r and a grateful and tenderson. He was an original and prominent member of the Main StreetBaptist Church, and contributed one-half of the amount for the erection ofits building. John Oliver Marble, M. D., son of John and Emeline (Prescott) Marble,and grandson of Reverend Coker ]^Iarble of Vassalborough, whose father,Samuel Marble, emigrated from England to this country in 1739, was bornat Vassalborough, Maine, April 26, 1839. He received his early educationin the district schools, at Vassalborough Academy, and Oak Grove Sem
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r and a grateful and tenderson. He was an original and prominent member of the Main StreetBaptist Church, and contributed one-half of the amount for the erection ofits building. John Oliver Marble, M. D., son of John and Emeline (Prescott) Marble,and grandson of Reverend Coker ]^Iarble of Vassalborough, whose father,Samuel Marble, emigrated from England to this country in 1739, was bornat Vassalborough, Maine, April 26, 1839. He received his early educationin the district schools, at Vassalborough Academy, and Oak Grove Semi-nary, and fitted for college at Waterville Academy. He was graduatedfrom Waterville College (now Colby University) in 1863, and subsequentlyreceived his degree of Master of Arts from the same institution. He was, by the appointment of the Honorable J. G. Blaine, a clerk in theWar Department at Washington, D. C, from 1864 to 1866, and was in theTreasury Department from i866 to 1869, where he received promotion to ahigher position, with increase of salary each LAMSON ALLEN. The Worcester of 1898. 547 During this period he studied medicine, attending lectures at the medicaldepartment of Georgetown University in Washington, and in 1868 took hisdegree of M. D. In 1869 and 1870 he attended a post-graduate course atthe College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He came to Worces-ter and entered into practice in March, 1870, and continued to reside in thiscity in the active discharge of the duties of his profession till 1896, when heretired from practice, and has since occupied his time in travel and incongenial studies. Doctor Marble has been one of the active staff of physicians of theWorcester City Hospital from 1871 to 1891, and one of the consulting staffsince that date. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the FreePublic Library, serving his second term, of six years each, since 1886. Hewas also surgeon of the Worcester Continentals several years. He was the
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