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

Biography

Marcius Dension Raymond was born on April 8, 1833, in Sherburne, New York. He was the son of Alfred Raymond, Sr. and Sarah Gardiner. 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, member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and local speaker on historical topics. 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. Raymond was a member of the monument committee spoke at the monument's dedication. Raymond was active in local Republican party politics, serving as Chairman of the Westchester Republican County Committee. Raymond married on September 19, 1855, at the First Congregational Church in Sherburne, New York, Elnora H. Purdy (1835–1898). They had one child, Lizzie May Raymond, who married Joseph Edward See. Raymond married Bertha Carpenter (1837–1911) in 1900 in Tarrytown, New York. He died on December 15, 1911, in Tarrytown.

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