The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 135. ^i^fit^c^.U^.,^ IfflARSH, Luther Bawson, was bom at Pom-pey, Ouomlasa coimty, N. Y., Apr. 4,1813. His fa-ther, Luther Marsh, was a native of Walpole, N.
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 135. ^i^fit^c^.U^.,^ IfflARSH, Luther Bawson, was bom at Pom-pey, Ouomlasa coimty, N. Y., Apr. 4,1813. His fa-ther, Luther Marsh, was a native of Walpole, N. H.,aiul died at Chicago, at the age of seventy-seven,ill 18o9. His mother was Emma Rawson, daughterof Dr. Tlionias Hooper Rawson, of Marsh was the fifth,in direct line, from JohnMarsh, one of the first set-tlers of Hadley, Mass., andafteiTvard of Hartford,where he married Anne,daughter of John Webster,governor of Rawson was thefourth from Rev. GrindalRawson, the friend andclassmate of Cotton Math-er; and was the sixth fromCharles Chauncy, the sec-ond president of R. was educated,in his boyhood, at the thenfamous academy of Pora-pey, and completed hisschooling at Capt. Part-ridges Military Institution,at Middletown, Conn., wherewere gathered some 350 ca-dets from all parts of the Union. At this academy hetook the gold and silver medal for the best originalspeech by the cadets under fif
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