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Albert Nelson Marquis was born on January 10, 1855 in Brown County, Ohio. He was the sixth of seven children and elder of two sons of Elizabeth (Redmon) Marquis, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, and Cyrenus G. Marquis, a native of Ohio. His mother died when Albert was six and his father five years later. The boy then went to live with his maternal grandparents in nearby Hamersville, Ohio, where he attended the local schools and helped tend his grandfather's general store.
At twenty-one he left for Cincinnati, where he worked as a bookseller for a publishing house and a few years later founded his own advertising and publishing company. In 1884, believing that the rapidly expanding metropolis of Chicago offered better prospects, he moved there and established a new publishing business. His first offering, Marquis' Hand-Book of Chicago: A Complete History, Reference Book and Guide to the City (1885), sold well, and during the next fifteen years his firm issued a number of books, including an edition of Alfred E. Brehm's The Animals of the World (1895), a well-illustrated natural history translated from the German; and an "art portfolio" of contemporary stage celebrities, with biographical sketches. Most of these volumes were edited by John William Leonard, an English journalist who had emigrated to the United States in 1868 and who remained with Marquis for about two decades. Marquis's specialty, however, was business and city directories, not only for Chicago but for other principal cities. He also prepared special editions of various newspapers which included sketches of the careers of civic leaders, and around 1894 he conceived the idea of collecting and publishing such material on a broader scale. Stimulated by the example of the British Who's Who, which in 1897, for the first time, presented some biographical material along with its lists of important persons, Marquis determined to issue a new type of reference book, a compilation of concise, accurate biographies of notable living Americans, who would themselves supply the facts by filling out detailed questionnaires. Volume I of Who's Who in America appeared in 1899. It was so successful that new editions followed regularly at two-year intervals (save for a three-year gap between volumes III and IV). For the first four volumes John W. Leonard was listed as editor; thereafter, Marquis himself. From the beginning it was he who decided upon the persons to be listed, although he asked advice from leaders in many spheres of American life. Inclusion depended on outstanding achievement in fields such as the sciences, the arts, religion, the military, education, and government. Physical superiority alone, he believed, did not merit a listing; thus figures in the sports world were ruled out. Likewise, the emphasis upon "reputable" achievement tended to exclude important men and women of suspect political affiliations. A biographical notice in Who's Who was thought to confer such prestige that many persons proposed their own names as entries and some even offered bribes, but neither money nor ancestry, without accomplishment, could procure a place. Before methods of selection were standardized in the late 1930's, Marquis's own canons of morality exerted a strong influence: a divorce was a major bar to a place in Who's Who, and a subject convicted of a crime was automatically dropped. Marquis died of pneumonia on December 21, 1943 at his home in Evanston, Illonois, shortly before his eighty-ninth birthday and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago.
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Marquis was also a member of the Congregational Church.
Marquis was a conservative Republican in politics.
He strongly opposed the use of tobacco and alcohol and took an active role in the Central Howard Association, which helped find work for released prisoners.
Although of limited educational background, Marquis was a man of vision and enterprise, as well as a practical businessman. He was passionately devoted to his work. In Who's Who in America he created a reliable biographical dictionary of eminent Americans, chosen according to the high and impartial standards he had set. In 1926, when he had reached the age of seventy-two, he sold control of his business, though he retained a 20 percent interest and continued as editor-in-chief until 1940. Marquis was fond of social life and enjoyed music and the opera.
Although seemingly a confirmed bachelor, Marquis on June 11, 1910, married Harriette Rosanna (Gettemy) Morgan of Monmouth, Ill. , a widow. They had no children.
