William Curtin Marshall and Letta L. Hays

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Husband William Curtin Marshall ¹

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           Born: 9 May 1864 - Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Lesley Marshall (1840-1892) 1 2
         Mother: Maria Jane Marshall (1839-Aft 1914) 1 3

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Wife Letta L. Hays ⁴

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         Father: William Hays (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 M Malvern Hays Marshall ⁴

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           Born: 26 Jun 1903 4
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General Notes: Husband - William Curtin Marshall

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He was educated at Dayton and Glade Run Academy, attending school regularly in the winter seasons and giving his father assistance in the summers, both on the farm and in the carpenter shop. His ambition, however, was to become connected with newspaper work, and in December, 1882, he started to learn printing in the office of the Dayton News, which was then conducted by the firm of Elder, Orr & Co., continuing in their office for one year. In December, 1883, he became associated as a partner with D. A. Lowe in the ownership of the News, and they continued together until 1885, when Mr. Marshall sold his interest to Mr. Lowe, after which he went to Putneyville, PA, where he opened a job office for one year. On April 19, 1887, he started on a trip through the West and traveled over considerable territory, in every town finding work at his trade. The death of his father in 1892 recalled him to Dayton and in July of that year he purchased a half interest in the News, his partner being B. S. Pontius, whose interest he bought in October, 1897. After that time Mr. Marshall conducted the paper alone and made it one of the leading journals of that section of Pennsylvania.
He and his wife were members of the Glade Run Presbyterian Church, of which he was treasurer beginning with his election to the office in January, 1907. Politically Mr. Marshall was a Republican and was one of the active, interested and reliable public men of Dayton borough. In February, 1895, he was first elected a justice of the peace and served continuously for five years. After the passage of five more years he was reelected to the same office, in 1905, and was again reelected in 1910. For seven years he was a member of the Dayton school board, one year being its treasurer and five years secretary; served several terms as borough auditor, and in 1910 was census enumerator of the borough. Mr. Marshall was a stockholder in the Dayton Normal Institute, of which he was one of the organizers. He was an active promoter and supporter of the Dayton Fair Association, of which he was president for two years and secretary for seven years. In several fraternal organizations he was quite prominent. He was past grand of Lodge No. 738, Odd Fellows, at Dayton, for several years was secretary of the lodge; was chief organizer of the encampment, which was instituted Jan. 28, 1910, and served as first chief of Dayton Encampment, No. 121, of which he was scribe; he was also clerk of Dayton Camp, M. W. of A., beginning when it was instituted, April 3, 1899, and he served as the first captain of the Sons of Veterans at Dayton.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 557.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 231.

3 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 185.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 558.