Chief Justice Read married first, Priscilla, daughter of Hon. J. Marshall, of Boston, on the 20th of March, 1828; Mrs. Read who was born the 19th of December, 1808, died in Philadelphia, on the 18th [20th] of April, 1841. She was the granddaughter of Lieut. Marshall, of the Revolutionary army, and eighth in descent from a captain in Cromwell's army, who was promoted for conspicuous services at the siege of Leicester, and at the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. Mrs Read and her sister Emily Marshall, afterwards, Mrs. William Foster Otis, of Boston, were the most celebrated belles of their day. By his first wife, Chief Justice Read had six daughters, of whom only one survived infancy, viz., Emily Marshall Read, who married, in 1849, William Henry Hyde, Esq., and died in 1854, leaving an only daughter, Emma H. Hyde, who married George W. Wurts. Esq., First Secretary of Legation and Chargé d' Affaires of the United States, at Rome, and died at Rome without issue.
By his first wife, neé Marshall, Chief Justice Read had also an only son— General John Meredith Read, late United States minister to Greece.
By his first wife, neé Marshall, Chief Justice Read had also an only son— General John Meredith Read, late United States minister to Greece.
Chief Justice Read married first, Priscilla, daughter of Hon. J. Marshall, of Boston, on the 20th of March, 1828; Mrs. Read who was born the 19th of December, 1808, died in Philadelphia, on the 18th [20th] of April, 1841. She was the granddaughter of Lieut. Marshall, of the Revolutionary army, and eighth in descent from a captain in Cromwell's army, who was promoted for conspicuous services at the siege of Leicester, and at the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. Mrs Read and her sister Emily Marshall, afterwards, Mrs. William Foster Otis, of Boston, were the most celebrated belles of their day. By his first wife, Chief Justice Read had six daughters, of whom only one survived infancy, viz., Emily Marshall Read, who married, in 1849, William Henry Hyde, Esq., and died in 1854, leaving an only daughter, Emma H. Hyde, who married George W. Wurts. Esq., First Secretary of Legation and Chargé d' Affaires of the United States, at Rome, and died at Rome without issue.
By his first wife, neé Marshall, Chief Justice Read had also an only son— General John Meredith Read, late United States minister to Greece.
By his first wife, neé Marshall, Chief Justice Read had also an only son— General John Meredith Read, late United States minister to Greece.
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