Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Marshall, Alexander S. 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Alexander S. Marshall. This old settler of Tomales township was born in
Ireland, where he remained till 1849, at which time, he, in company with two
elder brothers, James and Hugh, emigrated to America and settled in
Indianapolis, Indiana, where the subject of this sketch resided about one year.
During the time that elapsed between the year he settled in Indianopolis and
1854, Mr. Marshall traveled through the Western States, but in that last
mentioned he started from Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, for
California, with a younger brother, bringing with them over the plains a band of
cattle and horses. He came direct to Marin county, and settled on what is now
known as "Marshall Bros' Home Ranch." His two brothers, James and Samuel having
preceded him to the county, coming in 1853. Hugh, the elder brother coming to
the county in 1852. Mr. Marshall has lived on and within a half mile of the home
ranch, since his coming, with the exception of ten months he lived in what is
now Tomales village, in the early days when Keys and Dutton were the only
inhabitants. In the year 1854, and a little before Mr. Marshall started for
California, he married in Kentucky, near the State line of Tennessee, Fannie A.
Brown, on March 4, 1854, who was born in Kentucky. Twenty-six years ago this
brave woman left home and friends and with her husband crossed the plains for
the purpose of making for themselves a home in a new country, thousands of miles
 away from all that was dear to her girlhood days. But she left all behind
cheerfully, settled on the farm in this township with her husband, and came with
him to Tomales, where she lived for ten months in a little "seven by nine" house
that Keys had built on the creek, keeping the house and boarding the first
settlers of the village, viz, John Keys and Warren Dutton. While she was living
on the old home ranch in 1855, there was born to her, Emma Jane, on March 18,
1855, who we are informed was the first white child born in the township. There
were three children born to them, the remaining two are named Fannie and Lizzie.
Mrs. Marshall died on November 30, 1861, and is buried in the cemetery in
Tomales. Mr. Marshall married, for his second wife, Emma Brown, a half-sister to
his first wife, February  16, 1870, by which union they have Florence, Mattie,
Ida, Lena and a little boy named Henry. Mr. Marshall is one of Marin county's
earliest and prominent settlers, has by incessant toil accumulated a competence,
and is ever ready and willing to aid in all public and private enterprises which
are worthy of patronage.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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