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Young (SAMUEL BALDWIN MARKS)

SAMUEL BALDWIN 1840; MARKS, an American military officer; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 9, 18 entered the Union army in 1861; served with distinction through the Civil War; brevetted Brigadier-General and was April 9, 1865. He joined the regular army as 2d lieutenant in May 1866; was promoted captain in July, 1866, and colonel, June 19, 1897; was commissioned a Brigadier-General of volunteers, May 4, 1898; and participated in the Cuban Y. M. C. ASSOCIATIONS Royal F Institution, having previously ral Philosophy." In 1818 he was made the discovery of the interference of light, the result of researches which, completed by Fresnel, secured the triman of universal accomplishments, add- ing to his scientific and mathematical tic character of certain of appeared his admirable "Lectures on Natural appointed secretary of the Board of Longitude, with the charge of superpreceded Champollion in the discovery of the alphabetic charact vising the "Nautical Almanack." Young the Egyptian hieroglyphs. He was a man of universal accomplishments, adding to his scientific and mathematical army in 1878, reaching eventually the rank of major-general. He served in the and the principal modern and Oriental languages. He died in London, May 10, 1829.