Rev. Alexander Stewart Marshall and Mary R. Christy

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Husband Rev. Alexander Stewart Marshall ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Apr 1829 - near Dayton, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Marshall (1794-1872) 2 3 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Stewart (1789-1842) 2 4 8

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       Marriage: 3 Dec 1845 1

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Rev. Alexander Marshall.

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Wife Mary R. Christy ¹

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Children

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1 F Lizzie R. Marshall ⁹

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2 M Charles Hodge Marshall ¹⁰

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3 F Mary Rosetta Marshall ¹⁰

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4 F Bertha Cowan Marshall ¹⁰

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           Born: Abt 1872
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Alexander Stewart Marshall

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He received a public school education such as the country schools of those days afforded. So great was his diligence and aptness to learn that in his sixteenth year he became a teacher in the public schools. He entered Elder's Ridge Academy in 1849, and Washington College in 1851, from the latter he graduated in 1853. He studied theology at Western Theological Seminary and at Princeton Theological Seminary, and was licensed by the Blairsville Presbytery in June 1855.
He removed to Marion, Iowa, in the spring following his marriage, and preached his first sermon there April 20, 1856. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Marion Presbyterian church by the Presbytery of Cedar, near the close of the first year of his ministry in that church, and completed over twenty-eighth years in that field of labor, and they were years crowned with marked success. "Mr. Marshall's pastorate, now extending beyond a quarter of a century, has been a model in many respects. Faithful, earnest, conscientious, and prompt in the discharge of his duties, he has looked carefully after the interests of his flock, and given each his individual attention. Kind, tender and courteous in his treatment of everyone he has always been popular with other denominations and universally respected by those who are not professing Christians." New York Evangelist, December 22, 1881.
Mr. Marshall succeeded Rev. J. D. Mason as Stated Clerk of Presbytery of Cedar. At the union of the Old and New school Presbyterians he was elected Stated Clerk and Treasurer of the Synod of Iowa North, and at the consolidation of the synods of Iowa, by the action of making one synod to a state, he was chosen the first Moderator of the new synod. His own church from being the weakest grew to be the strongest in the city.

Besides the children listed, he and his wife had five little boys that died, all under three years of age.

1 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 194.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 292x.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 475.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 610.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 710.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 53.

7 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 189.

8 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 190.

9 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 195.

10 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 196.