New York journalist.

Parents Nancy Coes Marble and Joel Marble
Della Bishop [(first wife)]born March 30, 1832, married 1864, died June 17, 1868, leaving two children, Abby Williams Lambard (second wife)
Children: Lieutenant Frank Marble; Della West Marble, who lived at Bedford, N. Y.
Stepdaughter Lady Katrina Lambard Conway Find A Grave Memorial# 51789264

Born at the Worcester Manual Labor High School [Worcester Academy], where his father Joel was steward. Graduated from the University of Rochester in 1855, at age 20.

MANTON MARBLE, PUBLICIST, DEAD; Editor and Owner of The New York World from 1862 to 1876 Dies in England at 82. NOTED POLITICAL WRITER His Famous "Letter to Abraham Lincoln" Followed Presidents Suspension of His Newspaper. His Letter to President Lincoln. His Mission for Cleveland.

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
July 25, 1917

LONDON, July 24.--Manton Marble died this morning of old age at the home of his son-in-law, Sir Martin Conway, Allington Castle, near Maidstone. Mr. Marble, who had been living in England quietly for twenty years, began to fail last Christmas...New York Times July 25, 1917

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Manton Marble was born in Worcester Massachusetts, to Nancy Coes Marble and Joel Marble, a teacher. Marble attended school in Albany, New York, where his family had moved in 1840. He continued his studies at Rochester University, working as an apprentice for the Rochester American newspaper. After graduating in 1855, he edited two Boston newspapers, then took an editorial position with the New York Evening Post in 1858. Two years later he took a job as night editor for the New York World, which had just begun publication, and became its chief editor in 1862. Financed by wealthy New York Democrats, such as August Belmont and Samuel Tilden, Marble made the daily newspaper into the chief organ of the Democratic party in New York City.

The World backed the Union military cause during the Civil War, but criticized Lincoln administration policies, especially emancipation, government centralization, and violations of civil liberties. It became a victim itself of press censorship when the military briefly suspended its publication for printing an article on the alleged defeatist attitude of the Lincoln White House. During the 1864 presidential campaign the World endorsed George McClellan, the Democratic nominee, and stood against racial equality by playing on white fears of miscegenation (a word the paper coined). Also in 1864, Marble married Delia West, who died four years later; they had two children.

Marble opposed the Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans, but after heavy Democratic losses in the 1866 elections, he advised fellow partisans to accept voting rights for black men as a fait accompli. In the 1868 race for the Democratic presidential nomination, he supported Salmon Chase, an advocate of black voting rights and of amnesty for former Confederates. Chase lost to Horatio Seymour, who was soundly defeated by Union war hero U. S. Grant in the general election. In the 1872 election, Marble joined other Democrats to endorse the candidacy of Liberal Republican Horace Greeley. Thereafter, Marble became a leading promoter of Samuel Tilden, who was elected governor of New York in 1874 and narrowly lost the disputed presidential election of 1876 to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Allegations that Marble attempted to bribe a Florida elector were never proven.

Marble established the World as a major force in American journalism and in 1866 beat out both the New York Herald and the Associated Press for control of news transmitted by the transatlantic telegraph cable. By 1868 he personally had controlling interest in the journal and was able to become independent of the Democratic party. Readership declined, however, and the paper suffered heavy financial losses during the depression of the early 1870s. In 1876 Marble sold the World to Thomas A. Scott, a railroad mogul.

Marble married Abby Williams Lambard in 1879; they had no children. He became an advocate of bimetallism, the free coinage of both gold and silver as the money standard. He promoted this view by ghost-writing the 1885 and 1886 Treasury Reports of Daniel Manning, secretary of the treasury in the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland. Marble became frustrated and angry when the president decided to push for tariff reform instead of monetary reform, so the former journalist concentrated his efforts on electing David Hill governor of New York on a "free silver" platform. Marble continued to urge international bimetallism in the second Cleveland administration, but made little headway. In the late 1890s he moved to England, where he died.

He joined the Boston Journal and also became editor of the Traveller. He moved to New York City in 1858 and joined the New York Evening Post. In 1859, he went to the Red River Valley as The Evening Post's correspondent. He contributed three papers on his journey to Harper's Magazine.He was the proprietor and editor of the New York World from 1862 to 1876.He turned it into a free-trade Democratic Journal. Marble's World building was not attacked during the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, unlike the Republican newspapers The Tribune and The Times.
In 1864, the World was charged with fraud after it published communications from President Lincoln that turned out to be forged. Lincoln arrested Marble and placed the World under military guard. Marble, and the World, was allowed to resume publication three days later. In 1872, the World vigorously opposed Horace Greeley's presidential campaign. Marble retired his editorial position in 1876.
In 1885, he went to Europe as a delegate to the Bi-Metallic Congress. He became president of the Manhattan Club in 1888. Marble died in England on July 24, 1917, at the age of 82.

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