Marcius D. Raymond

Marcius D. Raymond (April 8, 1833 – December 15, 1911) was an American newspaper publisher and editor, writer, genealogist, and historian.

Marcius Dension Raymond was born on April 8, 1833 at Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Alfred Raymond, Sr. and Sarah Gardiner.[1][2]

He began his career in Clinton, New York working as a reporter on the Clinton Courier. He later became the editor and publisher of the newspaper. In 1859, he sold the newspaper and he left Clinton and relocated to Tarrytown, where he was the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus. He sold the paper in 1909 to Wallace Odell and George F. Van Tassel of the Tarrytown Daily News. He also served as postmaster of Tarrytown from 1881 to 1885.

Raymond was a local historian,[3] member of the Sons of the American Revolution,[4] and local speaker on historical topics.[5] He was a driving force behind the campaign to raise funds to build a granite monument to the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.[3] Raymond was a member of the monument committee[6] spoke at the monument's dedication.[7]

Raymond was active in local Republican party politics,[8] serving as Chairman of the Westchester Republican County Committee.[9]

Raymond married on September 19, 1855 at the First Congregational Church in Sherburne, New York, Elnora H. Purdy (1835–1898).[10][1][2] They had one child, Lizzie May Raymond, who married Joseph Edward See.[10][1] Raymond married Bertha Carpenter (1837–1911) in 1900 in Tarrytown, New York.

He died on December 15, 1911 in Tarrytown.

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References
  1. Raymond, Marcius Denison (1887). Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and Also Including Sketches of Other Gray Families. Higginson Book Company. p. 15.
  2. Raymond, Samuel (1886). Genealogies of the Raymond families of New England, 1630-1 to 1886. : with a historical sketch of some of the Raymonds of early times, their origin, etc. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. New York, NY : Press of J.J. Little & Co.
  3. "Monument for Sleepy Hollow: Tarrytown to Honor Men Who Fought in the Revolution". The New York Times. July 1, 1894 – via Proquest Historical Newspapers.
  4. "IT WANTS A PERMANENT HOME: New-York State Branch of the Sons of the Revolution Are in Prosperous Condition -- Officers Elected". The New York Times. December 4, 1894.
  5. "Pilgrims Visit Tarrytown ; Students of History on a Tour of Revolutionary Battlefields". The New York Times. August 7, 1894. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  6. "In Sleepy Hollow Cemetery monument in memory of soldiers of the revolution" (PDF). The New York Times. October 14, 1894. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  7. "Tarrytown Heroes Honored: Beautiful Shaft Dedicated in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. War Ships Boom Salutes, Thousands of Patriotic Americans Look On". The New York Times. October 20, 1894.
  8. "Colonel G.W. Robertson named; He will be a candidate for the senate". New-York Tribune. October 12, 1893.
  9. "Westchester Republicans: W.V. Molloy of New Rochelle for Register". The New York Times. October 19, 1892.
  10. Hughes, Thomas Patrick (1887). American ancestry : giving name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776. Albany, N.Y.: Munsell. p. 160.
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