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William
J. Marshall A successful
farmer and public-spirited citizen of Fairview Township, Jasper County, is
William J. Marshall, a man who is eminently deserving of the success that has
attended his efforts in view of the fact that he has worked long and hard for
the same. He grew up amid pioneer
conditions and has been content to spend his life here at home, believing that
here were to be found as good opportunities as anywhere for the man who desired
to follow tilling the soil as a livelihood. Mr.
Marshall was born in the Township where he still resides on August 31, 1868.
He is the son of Robert Marshall, an extended mention of whom is to be
found in another part of this volume in the sketch of G. F. Marshall. William J. Marshall grew up on the home farm and there he began working about the place when but a small boy. He attended, during the winter months, the district school at Cottage Grove. He remained with his father until he became of age. When his twenty-first birthday arrived he began renting land, the home place, and soon had a start, for he worked hard and was economical. In the fall of 1902 he bought one hundred and twenty acres three and one-half miles west of Monroe and there he lived for four years, then bought the home farm of one hundred and ninety-five acres, and soon moved thereto. He has kept the place well improved and well tilled and has made a success as a general farmer and stock raiser. He has a fine home and is very comfortably situated. Politically, Mr.
Marshall is a Democrat, and he is at present school director in his district. On September 25,
1889, Mr. Marshall was married to Ellen Lillian Crane, a native of Monroe, Iowa.
She is the daughter of Edward Crane, a native of Ireland, who ran away
from home when a boy and crossed the Atlantic to New Orleans, and finally came
to Iowa. Two sons have been born to
the subject and wife, Roy Meek Marshall and Burton Lee Marshall. The
Past and Present of Jasper County, Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-in-Chief,
1912, B. F. Bowden & Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 895. |
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