Noah M. Marker and Eliza J. Graham

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Husband Noah M. Marker ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Hon. N. M. Marks 3
           Born: 29 Oct 1826 - Ligonier Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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           Died: 23 Nov 1896 2 5
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         Father: Henry Marker (1779-1844) 1
         Mother: Mary Ambrose (      -1873) 4

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       Marriage: 1850 4

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Wife Eliza J. Graham ^{3 6}

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           Born:  - Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: Aft 1906
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         Father: Richard Graham (1796-1883) 3 7
         Mother: Annie Mellon (1798-1873) 3

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Children

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1 M Charles Franklin Marker ^{2 6}

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            AKA: Clarence F. Marker,5 Frank Marker 8 9
           Born: 27 Jan 1852 - Mechanicsburg, Ligonier Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
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           Died: 3 Oct 1927 - Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Anna Kate McColly (1856-      ) 2 8 10

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2 F Clara Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1854 5
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           Died: Aft 1906
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3 M Schell Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1856 5
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           Died: 1887 5
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         Spouse: Emma Robinson (      -      ) 5

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4 M Alfred Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1858 5
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           Died: 1861 5
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Edward Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1861 5
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           Died: 1863 5
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M Frederick Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1866 5
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           Died: 1867 5
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 F Anna B. Marker ⁵

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           Born: 1870 5
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           Died: Aft 1906
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General Notes: Husband - Noah M. Marker

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He received a good common school education, and worked on the farm for his father until he was twenty-one. He then learned the business of tanning leather, at which he worked for three years. In 1850 he decided on a business career and opened a general country store at Mechanicsburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he remained six years. Closing out this business he removed to Ligonier and there opened a larger and heavier stocked store, which he conducted successfully until his death. In politics he was an ardent Democrat. He served as school director from 1857 to 1878, twenty-one years, and as justice of the peace from 1858 to 1863, five years. In 1878 he was elected a member of the state legislature.

He was reared on the farm whereon he was born, and remained there until he became a young man. When about eighteen years old he located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and there taught school for two years. In 1849 he opened a general store in the village of Mechanicsburg, which at that time was a tannery town, where he remained in business until 1852. In that year Mr. Marker moved his store to the village of Oak Grove, where furnaces were being operated at that time, and remained in Oak Grove until the year 1854, at which time he moved into the town of Ligonier. Having established his residence and business in Ligonier, he completed a store room in 1856, which he occupied until the time of his death. He was engaged in the general merchandise business in this room for more than forty years, and had a most prosperous business, being one of the prominent and influential citizens of that locality. During the last twenty-five years of his life his son, C. F. Marker, was a junior member of the firm and the business was conducted under the firm name of N. M. Marker & Son.
In 1879 he represented his district in the state legislature, served for many years as school director, and was otherwise called upon to represent the public interests of the community. In politics he gave his support to the Democratic party, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist church.
Realizing that the one thing that Ligonier and the surrounding country needed for its development was a railroad, he worked long and earnestly in the attempt to procure the same. He was one of the leaders in this enterprise, and after the company which was organized to build the railroad, of which he was a director, had graded the road bed, he, along with his associates, persuaded Hon. Thomas Mellon, of Pittsburgh, to interest himself in the venture, and the railroad was finally built and was operated successfully beginning in 1877. Mr. Marker remained a director in this company for many years.

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General Notes: Wife - Eliza J. Graham

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Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 86, 473.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 39.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 534.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 86.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 87.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 87, 473.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 474.

8 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 545.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 78.

10 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 78, 87, 473.