Edwin Lesley Marechal
MARECHAL, EDWIN LESLEY, physician, was born June 27, 1850, at Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., and died August 19, 1909, at Mobile; son of Charles Francois and Mary Selina (Blackburn) Marechal, the former a native of Verdun, Alsace-Lorraine, France, born February 1, 1806, the latter a South Carolinian, born in Lancaster, whose surname originally was Mazee, until she took the name of her step-father, Mr. Blackburn: grandson of Elise (Dernier) Marechal, of Verdun, France. His maternal ancestors were French Huguenots, who came to South Carolina in colonial times, and participated in the Revolutionary War, his great-grandfather having been injured at the battle of Cowpens. Dr. Marshal's father served seven years as an officer in the French Army in Algiers; came to New Orleans, La., in 1840; lived at Donaldsonville, La., for one year, then went to Camden, S. C., where he was married; conducted a mercantile business at Wilmington, N. C., until 1846; was professor of modern languages, of which he knew seven, in Dickinson college, Chambersburg, Pa., 1846-1851, and in the Maplewood female seminary, Pittsfield, Mass., 1851-1854; returned south and had charge of the modern language department of the public schools of Mobile, 1854-1862; enlisted in the French guards of Mobile, 1862, and was elected captain, doing principally provost duty; and taught school after the War of Secession, until his death in 1877. Dr. Marechal attended the public schools of Mobile, and spent three years at Mobile college, now defunct. He was graduated from the medical college of the University of Alabama, M. D., 1870; attended lectures at Tulane university, New Orleans, in 1871; began to practice medicine at Daphne, Baldwin County in 1871, and continued there for three years when his health failed; withdrew from his practice temporarily, and was connected with the press in Meridian, Miss., 1873-1874; returned to his medical practice in Daphne, 1877-1880; practiced at Stockton until 1889; then located at Mobile, where he practiced until his death. While in Baldwin County, he organized the Baldwin County medical association; was county health officer for a number of years; and was president of the board of health of that county; was at one time health officer of Mobile County; served as lecturer on hygiene and medical jurisprudence, Medical college of Alabama, and was the first president of the alumni association of that institution; was at one time president of the Alabama medical association; was a member of the school board of Mobile County for eighteen years, and for some time was president of that body. He was a Democrat; a Presbyterian; a Mason; and a Red Man. He was author of a number of published papers on medical subjects, and was founder and editor of the "Mobile Medical and Surgical Journal." Married: in 1874, at Meridian. Miss., to Julia Eliza, daughter of Isaac Saddler Orlando Grandison and Martha Ann (McInnis) Greer, of Jones Bluff, Sumter County, the former an early settler in Meridian, Miss., and head of the firm of Greer, Bogle and company, cotton factors. Her ancestors on both sides were early settlers of Alabama, having gone there from south Carolina. Many of her relatives were participants in the Revolutionary War, and in the War of Secession. Children: 1. Marie Augusta, m. Samuel Sllenus Murphy (q. v.); 2. Grandison Greer, d. in infancy; 3. Julia Greer, m. H. J. Woods, of Meridian, Miss.; 4. Edwin Leslie, jr., m. Leila Alice Harris, Mobile; 5. Edith Whitfield, m. Samuel Silenus Murphy (q. V.) ; 6. Greer McInnis, Washington, D. C.; 7. Claudia Silver, Mobile. Last residence: Mobile.
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