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Letter, 26 October 1887
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Rev. David Calhoun Marquis was born on November 15, 1834, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author. He served as a minister at the North Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Illinois. He was also a professor of New Testament at the McCormick Theological Seminary (1883-1912) and the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He published the book "Outline of the Life of Christ in Seven Periods" (1892). Several of his sermons were also published, e.g., "The patriot's gratitude: a discourse, delivered in the North Presbyterian Church, Chicago, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1867".
In 1863, he married Anna Margaretta Kennedy (1835–1875), in 1879, he remarried Helen M. Pearson (1840–1895), and in 1898, Emeline E. Patrick Vaughn (1841–1901). He died on October 8, 1912, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
Letter from D.C. Marchquis to John William Dawson, written from Chicago.