Husband Robert Marshall 1 2 3 4
Born: 19 Aug 1799 - near Clarksburg, Indiana Co, PA 1 3
Christened:
Died: 1 Oct 1881 - Dayton, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 5
Buried:
Father: William Marshall (1756-1831) 2 4 6 7
Mother: Catherine Wilson ( -1817) 3 6 8
Marriage: 25 Jul 1871 1 5
Other Spouse: Mary Hindman (1801-1869) 1 4 5 - 4 Dec 1821 1 5
Wife Mary Jane Armstrong 1 5
Born: 14 Sep 1834 1 5
Christened:
Died: Aft 1884
Buried:
Father: John D. Armstrong ( - ) 5
Mother: Ellen Lindsey ( - ) 5
Children
• They had no children.
General Notes: Husband - Robert Marshall
After his marriage he and his wife settled on Glade run, where he built a log house about one and a half miles south of what became Dayton borough. The property was then woods, and he cleared some of the land and ran a distillery. He then bought and moved to a large tract at what is now the site of Dayton borough, and built a house a half mile from town, residing there for some time. At both these places he followed farming. He also bought grain and other farm prod-ucts which he hauled to Phillipsburg, Old Town, and Curwensville, and exchanged for merchandise. In 1850 Mr. Marshall took his sons William and Thomas H. into partner-ship with him in the management of his grow-ing interests. They had a general store in Dayton, one of the first established there, and about four hundred acres of land, William and his father looking after the farm and Thomas H. devoting his time to the mercan-tile end of the business. On April 9, 1868, Robert Marshall sold his real estate to his sons, but he retained his interest in the store until his death. There were few men who did more notable work for the advancement of that area than he accomplished in his lifetime. The cause of education always had a hearty supporter in him, and he gave the ground on which the building of the Dayton Academy stood and was the promoter of that institution. He was one of the originators of the Dayton Soldiers' Orphans' School and its heaviest stockholder. A member of the Associate or Seceder Church, he was one of the founders of the church of that denomi-nation at Glade Run, and its house of wor-ship and burying ground were located upon land donated by him for that purpose. After its formation he became a member of the U. P. Church, being one of the organizers of that church at Dayton and taking an active part in its work. In politics he was origin-ally a Whig, later a Republican.