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from that institution four years later, during the last two years of this cuurse being assistant to Dr. John B. Owens, Chief Surgeon of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company. In 1890 he began medical practice at Huntley, McHenry County, Ill.; in 1900 he was on the medical staff of the Mexican Railway Company for several months, and since his return he has been located in Elgin. In 1901 Dr. Markley was married to Miss Myrtle Weltzein, daughter of John Weltzein, of Huntley, Ill., and they have one daughter.
FRANKLIN E. MARLEY, newspaper publisher, Batavia, Ill., born in Randolph County, N. C., son of Jacob and Louisa (Guthridge) Marley; was brought to Iowa as a child and educated in the local schools of that State and at the Normal in Valparaiso, Ind., and at Omaha, Neb. He learned the printing trade at Red Oak, Iowa, where he was first engaged in newspaper work; at a later period was on the reportorial staff of the Chicago "Inter-Ocean." He has studied both medicine and law, but the newspaper work drew him powerfully, and he has now devoted to it some twenty-two years. In 1882 he established the "Kendall County News," which he published for twelve years; after this he went to Sandwich, Ill., where he
published the "Sandwich Free Press" until 1892. The latter year he established the "Batavia Herald," of which he is still editor and publisher (1903). He married Miss Effie Lincoln, of Kendall County, a lady of superior literary attainments, a talented elocutionist and Delsarte teacher.
MASON M. MARSH (deceased), Elgin, Ill., born in Delphi, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1816, was reared and educated in his native county, where he was trained for a mercantile career. In 1849 he came to Elgin, Ill., where he became connected with the old-time establishment of William C. Kimball, and soon became prominent in pioneer circles. He continued to reside in Elgin as long as he lived, his death occurring in 1881. His wife, Esther Gardner, was a native of New York. She married a second time, and is now the widow of Benjamin Cox, late of Elgin.
FANCIS M. MARSTILLER, physician and surgeon, Geneva, Ill., born at Palatine, W. Va., April 9, 1866; educated in the schools of Ohio, Michigan and Illinois; graduated from the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical College in the class of 1895; located in Geneva in the fall of the latter year, and has built up a large practice in that city and the surrounding country. He was married in 1889 to Miss Ada May Fields, of Austin, Ill.
JACOB MARX, merchant and ex-Postmaster, Aurora, Ill., born in Aurora, March 19, 1857, son of Peter Marx, an early German settler, was educated in public schools, and trained as a merchant; in 1878 he engaged in the grocery trade, which has been his business to the present time, excepting four years during which he served as Postmaster of Aurora. In 1886 he erected the Marx Block, and in 1894 was appointed Postmaster by President Cleveland; has also served as a member of the Kane County Board of Supervisors and of the Aurora City Council, and for many years has been a Democratic leader in Kane County. In 1880 he married Miss Antoinette Zack, of Aurora.
CHARLES D. MARTIN (deceased), Chicago, was born in DuPage County, Ill., April 10, 1845, and reared in Geneva, where he attended the local schools, being also a student at the University of Michigan. His first business experi-
