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Manton Marble was born on November 15, 1835 in Worcester, Massachussets. He was the son of Joel and Nancy Chapin (Coes) Marble.
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Manton Malone Marble
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His early education was supervised by his father, and he was graduated from the Albany (N. Y. ) Academy in 1853.
Career
After two years at the University of Rochester (B. A. , 1855) he began newspaper work as a member of the staff of the Boston Journal. A year later (1856) he became an editor of the Boston Traveler and in 1858-60 was on the staff of the New York Evening Post. In 1860 he was made night editor of the New York World and in 1862 became editor and owner of that paper. His control of the World continued throughout the last two years of the Civil War and the period of reconstruction of the South. Early in 1864 the World was one of a few New York newspapers which were made the victims of a fraud in the publication of a forged call from President Lincoln for the addition of 400, 000 men to the army by draft and enlistment, and appointing a day of national fasting and prayer. The President ordered the arrest of Marble and a military guard was put in charge of the World office. Three days later Marble succeeded in resuming publication of the paper and addressed an open letter to Lincoln declaring that the World had been imposed upon by methods which it had been impossible to detect. In the attacks on the "Tweed ring" in New York he was active. He was credited with having written the New York state platform of the Democratic party in 1874 and the national platform of the party on which Samuel J. Tilden was nominated for president in 1876, as well as much of the national platform of 1884. In 1876 Marble sold the World to a group of men headed by Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was sent abroad by President Cleveland in 1885 to sound European governments on bimetalism, and conferred with Gladstone, Bismarck, Freycinet, and other public men. After extensive investigation he reported to the President that the resumption of bimetallic coinage would not be carried out by any European government without the cooperation of Great Britain, which he saw no prospect of obtaining, since neither the British Conservative nor Liberal leaders were prepared for it. He advised Cleveland against further purchases of silver by the United States Treasury Department. The last years of his life were devoted to literary endeavors and leisure, and he spent much time in England, where he died.
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Views
During the war he opposed many of the policies of the federal government, although he held that no course but war was open after the firing on Fort Sumter. He was against great extension of the federal power, a federal income tax, the issuing of greenbacks, negro suffrage, and the impeachment of President Johnson. He protested against the President's action, declaring that "for the purpose of gratifying an ignoble partisan resentment you have struck down the rights of the press". The letter, which was long and couched in vigorous language, was reprinted (1867) in pamphlet form by a group of men who sympathized with Marble's stand. He supported the Geneva arbitration treaty and the Alabama awards, expressing the view that they constituted a beginning of a period of peaceful policies.
Connections
Marble was twice married. His first wife was Delia Bishop West and his second wife was Abby Lombard. Marble had three children.
- Father:
- Joel Marble
- Mother:
- Nancy Chapin Coes
- Wife:
- Abby Lombard
- Wife:
- Delia Bishop West
- Daughter:
- Delia West Marble
- Daughter:
- Alice Marble
- Son:
- Frank West Marble
17 July 1803 - 14 December 1887
9 September 1810 - 15 February 1898
18 June 1834 - 10 April 1909
3 March 1832 - 17 June 1868.
1868 - 1951
Born in 1865.
Born in 1866.
