Robert Neal Marshall and Mary P. Marshall

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Husband Robert Neal Marshall ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 25 Sep 1859 - Armstrong Co, PA 3
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         Father: Thomas Hindman Marshall (1824-1908) 4 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Rosetta P. Neal (1827-1906) 1 2 7 9 10

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       Marriage: 17 Sep 1889 11

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Wife Mary P. Marshall ^{1 2 11}

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         Father: Robert Marshall (      -      ) 11
         Mother: Rose Ann Nelson (      -      ) 11

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Children

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1 M Robert Clark Marshall ¹¹

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2 M Thomas Neal Marshall ¹¹

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3 F Annie Marie Marshall ¹¹

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4 F Martha Rosetta Marshall ¹¹

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Neal Marshall

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He started in life by receiving a common-school education, taking a finishing course in the academy at Dayton, Pennsylvania. At an early period it was his ambition to become a physician; accordingly, after a preliminary course of study, he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, remaining one and a half years. But the following spring his health failed, and he was obliged to abandon all hopes of ever becoming a physician. Mr. Marshall then went to Tennessee and engaged in the drug business at Dandridge - subsequently returning home. He then took a trip to the far West, visiting points of interest in Kansas and Colorado. At the latter place he fell ill, and, after a long attack of typhoid fever, from which he finally recovered, he returned home in the autumn of 1884.
The following autumn he, in company with T. H. Marshall, Josiah Work and L. N. Putney, organized the Maple Creek Lumber Company. Their first purchase was 2,200 acres of land, upon which they erected two saw mills, with a daily capacity of about 50,000 feet of lumber. The company consisted of T. H. Marshall and sons, Josiah Work, and Nathan Crossman and son. They next added 700 acres to the tract, and so on until they became owners of 5,000 acres of the best timber land in that section. For many years this company did a vast amount of business, but in 1895, by mutual consent of all concerned, the company was dissolved, each of the three buying an interest. The business was later conducted under the firm name of T. H. Marshall & Sons. The large general store owned by the Maple Creek Lumber Company was managed entirely by Mr. Marshall, and contained a complete line of everything that made a general store so useful to the community.
All was not plain sailing with Mr. Marshall, who was called upon to suffer his share of loss; on May 20, 1891, this store and all its contents were destroyed by fire, with a loss of over $8,000, but out of the ruins arose a new store, finer and better stocked, and when the company was dissolved, this store was taken by the Marshalls.
They were among the heaviest land owners in Forest County, owning in all about 1,000 acres, mostly cleared.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary P. Marshall

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from Allegheny City, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 494.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 612.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 352.

4 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 603.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 493.

6 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 611.

7 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 393.

8 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 170.

9 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 461.

10 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 173.

11 Editor, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 394.