Lassen-Mendocino County CA Archives Biographies.....Marstella, Massillon 1851 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

MASSILLON MARSTELLA.—This gentleman was born in Prince William county, Virginia,
October 14, 1853. He received a collegiate education at Georgetown, D. C. In
1872 he went to Mendocino county, in this state, where he commenced reading law
in the office of Harrison & Carothers, of Ukiah. Late in 1873 he returned to the
Georgetown college, and entered the law department, from which he graduated in
1874, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia. He again came to this state, and practiced in Mendocino county, where
for a time he was deputy district attorney. In 1875 he came to Lassen county,
and was that fall elected district attorney on the Democratic ticket, serving
until 1878. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his
profession in Susanville. He is a young man of good, studious habits, and is
rapidly winning an enviable position in his chosen profession. January 9, 1878,
he married Miss Nannie Tanner, born in New York in 1860. They have been blessed
with three children: Massillon, born October 13, 1878, in Prince William county,
Virginia; Dorsey, born March 20, 1881 in Susanville, and died March 27,1881;
infant child, born February 1, 1882.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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