New-York tribune., 1921-07-11
Marquand Dies
LIN Waslli1ngton:
Funeral Here
Noted Editor and Author.
Formerly at Head of
Commercial Advertiser.
Succumbs at Age of 65
Leader i'm Public Service
Devoted a Brilliant Mind
and Deep Education
to Welfare of Citizens

WASHINGTON, July 10. - Henry
Marquand, former editor-in-c chief Of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, died
to-day at his home in this city. 1897
Nineteenth Street. He was in his sixty
fifth year. Funeral services will be
held at 10 A. NJ. Wednesday at the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York.
Interment will be in Newport Il. l.
Henry Marquand came into the world
predestined by inheritance to take a
strong interest in the liberal arts. His
father was the late Henry G. Mar
quand, conspicuously known as col
lector, as president of the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art and rs a generous
benefactor of that institution. Henry
Marquand was born April s, 1857, in
New York. He was educated first at
then entered Princeton University. He
was graduated from Princeton in 1878,
receiving a degree than, and another
in 1881. On April 20, 1895, he was
married to Katharine Cowden Griswold,
who survives him.
Marquand had every opportunity for
pleasure in his youth and for some
years he was a devoted yachtsman, but
his passion for letters early manifest
ed itself. He gratifed it for a time
as literary editor Of the old CONNER
cial Advertiser, as the afternoon paper
now called The Globe was forme rly
known. In the late eighties he was the
editor in chief Of that paper, being as
sociated in the publication of it with.
Harold Goodwin, his brother-inlew, son
of the late Parke Goodwin. Marquand
had received much inspiration from
the late George Cary Eggleston.
journalism had for him distinctly
literary flavor. He wrote we'll him self
and liked to have good writer's about
him. One of the principal contributors
to his editorial page was Virginius
Dabney. the Southern novelist.
In 1891 the paper was sold and Mar
quand was for time in the banking
and brokerage business, but his heart
was never in this and he presently re-
tired to take up the pen that he had
never willingly dropped. AS q reviewer
to The Tribune, as to other journals,
treating historical and political studies
and many miscellaneous subjects. He
had special flair for works of travel.
He was one of the earliest American
members of the Hakluyt Society. His
style was lucid and polished. A widely
read man, with good memory, he car
ried his learning lightly and made his
reviews the more charming through a
deft play of wit. On the editorial
page of The Commercial Advertiser,
long before, he had engaged in poiti-
cal discussion with force and high
principle. In the treatment of books
he could indulge himself in more
leisurely, more serene atmosphere, one
peculiarly sympathetic to his tempera-
MI hrf ho L. j
to be active. In literature, as in poll
tics, he was man of exacting stand
ards.
He was all active member of the
Farmers Club. for whose annual meet
lngs he was wont to write gayly poeti-
cal effusions. On his estate at Bedford
Ellis he looked after his orchards with
enthusiasm when he was not immersed
in books. 1t was Marquand who organ
lied the alumni of St. Paul's School
living in Westchester County, and made
of its kind. In every phlanthropic
movement in his neighborhood he was
sure to bear share. and he won a rare
reputation for public spirit and local
usefulness.
A Jealous member of the New York
State Board of Charities, he annually
made a tour Of the state to inspect its
various institutions. Down almost to
the moment Of his death he maintained
his deep interest in public affairs, in
the life of school and college, in all
that pertains to good citizen. There
was strain of original and delightful
humor in him. Some readers may re-
cali the brief account of bluejay he
wrote for Bird Lore in the present
year. But his friends viii remember
him longest for the sweetness and
stea dfa a stness of his charactar