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M2 in the 1910 census marital column means married more than once; M1 means a first marriage.
The 1910 census asked married people whether this was their first marriage. The enumerator wrote M1 for a first marriage and M2 for a second or later one, next to the number of years in the present marriage.
An M2 husband with a young wife and older children may mean the children are from an earlier wife. Check the mother's count of children born and living to sort out whose children are whose.
As seen in a recordLine of the 1910 census
Clark, Jno., Head, M, W, 52, M2, 6
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