E. H. MARQUESS

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 682-683.)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 20 December 2005

PROF. E. H. MARQUESS, professor of Latin in Westminster College. Professor Marquess, an accomplished scholar and an educator of long and successful experience, is a native of Tennessee, born in Gallatin, Sumner county, November 19, 1842. He was principally reared, however, in Virginia, where he also received his education. After the usual course in the preparatory schools he entered Hampden-Sidney College, in which he continued a student until his graduation in 1860. The war coming on soon after this, he identified himself with the South, and enlisted in a company for the Confederate service composed of students and fellow graduates of his Alma Mater, the company being known as the " Hampden-Sidney Boys." It was captured, however, a few weeks afterwards, and after his release Mr. Marquess was assigned to duty with the staff of General Joseph E. Johnson, and served under him until 1864, General Johnson being removed by President Davis during that year. Mr. Marquess then came under the command of General Ewell, under whom he served until the general surrender. He was in a number of the more important battles of the war, and was a faithful, unflinching soldier to the end.

After the restoration of peace Mr. Marquess engaged in teaching in Mississippi, and followed it there and in West Virginia with success and increasing reputation until 1882, when he was tendered the professorship of Latin in Westminster College of Fulton, Missouri, a position he accepted, and which he has since filled with unmixed benefits to the college and with great credit to himself. Professor Marquess is a practical educator of more than ordinary ability, particularly in the department over which he now presides. A thorough master of the Latin language, he has a happy faculty of leading his pupils up to an acquisition of the language, with singular rapidity and ease, by making the road over which he wishes them to travel appear pleasant and attractive--pointing out to them the beauties here and the advantages there, and thus keeping them constantly stimulated to push forward in their course, hardly conscious of the difficulties before them until they have been surmounted. Personally he is a man of pleasant, refined address, a cultured gentleman, and one whose purity of mind and generosity of heart are manifest in everything he says or does. To his pupils he becomes a friend as deeply solicitous for their welfare as they are themselves, and thus they come to hold him in the highest esteem and to strive to advance themselves, hardly less to merit his good opinion than for their own improvement. He has long been a member of the Presbyterian church, and his walk and talk are entirely consistent with the faith he holds. His appointment to his present position was one of singular good fortune for the college and for its patrons and friends.

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