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His father died when hes was only ave
years old and his mother was left.Sto
care for children. He attended school
in the good old days when the boys
had to build the fires and the girls
swept the room. There were no stoves
in the school house where he attended
school, only "a huge brick fireplace,
large enough to burn logs three feet
long. Goose quilts were used for pens
and ink was made by boiling maple
bark with copperas. School books were
very limited. AT the age Of IL the boy
was apprenticed to learn the bakers
trade, working at the trade for, three
years. No machinery Of any kind was
used in those days. The firm he was
apprenticed to went out OF business and
he then turned his energies to the shoe
makers trade. In March Of the year
1843 he went to Orono, Me. on the
Penobscot with an older brother who
was mill-wright. He did not like this
kind of work, however, and for seven
summers he was engaged in driving and
rafting logs. In the winters he cooked
for logging camps. He contracted rheu-
matism and was forced to give up this
work and then opened drug store
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The jubilarian left Orono, Me. August
27, 1866 and arrived in St. Joseph,
Mo. Sept. 1st. It was his intention
to go to Pixies Peak to hunt for gold
but he was discouraged and decided to
come to St. Paul on the old steamer
''War Eagle arriving October LIST,
and put up at the Merchants Hotel.
From St. Paul he travelled east, west,
north and south for two years working
at dentistry, as all the dentists were
doing then. April 10, 1868 he came
to New Ulm and took lodgings at the
Dakota House and this well-known
hostelry has been his home ever since.
DR.. Marden entered the Masonic
fraternity in the year 1864 as a member
of Mechanic Lodge No. &c., Orono,
Maine. He, was made Royal Arch
Mason at St. Peter, August IT,. 1873,
was Knighted at Mankato, April Is,
1874, was made Scottish Rite Mason,
32nd degree, at Sleepy Eye, Oct. 7, 1898
and entered the Mystic Shrine at
Zarah Temple, Minneapolis, Oct. 10,
1902. In January of the same year he
was elected member of the Masonic
Veteran Association at St. Paul. January
ID, 1885 he was elected Junior Grand
Warden Of the Grand Lodge Of Mime
sofa and in 1898 he was appointed
representative of the Grand Lodge in
the State of Nevada, a position he
occupies to-day. He was the first
Master Of Charity Lodge No. SO Of this.
city and served in that capacity for
Fl years. He has been recorder Of
DeMolay Commandery for the past
thirteen years. i ,;S |.;5ss h,
Dr. Marden practised 5dentistry here
for a great number of years and in the
early days he had the field of dentistry
all to himself. The jubilarian has not
been given to worry very much and he
has never partaken seriously of the
strenuosity of accommodating wealth.
He has retained his mental faculties in
a remarkable degree and physically he
is as we'll preserved as most men are
when they arrive at three score years
and ten and his friends see in him a
prospective centenarian. His philosophy
of life he sums up as follows: IF I can
live to make one pale face brighter,
give second lustre to a tear-dimmed
eye, impart one throb of comfort to an
aching heart, or cheer some wayworn
soul in passing by; if I can lend strong
hand to the fallen, or defend the right
against single envious strain, my life,
though bare of much that seems so dear
and fair to us on earth, will not have
been in vain.' His friends hope that
he may live among us for another ten
years at least, and that he may retain
the mental and physical vigor that he is
blessed with to-day.
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