Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Marr, John C. 1839 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com September 26, 2007, 11:22 pm

Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   John C. Marr, farmer, Attica, was born in Attica, December 25, 1839. His
father was a native of Ireland, and came to Fountain county in 1837 and settled
in Attica. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Sholl, was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, April 3, 1810, and is living with her son in the enjoyment of a
vigorous old age, but not wholly free from that most painful of diseases which
too rarely fails to afflict old age — rheumatism. Mr. Marr received the log
school-house education of those days. He has always been a tiller of the soil,
but for the last two years he has been in the stock-shipping business. He owns
eighty acres of land in Webster county, Iowa. He has been a Mason about ten
years, and is a republican. He has been real estate appraiser of Shawnee
township for four successive terms, beginning with 1872. He was first appointed
by the board of commissioners of Fountain county, and in 1874 and in 1876 was
reelected. He was United States supervisor of election for Shawnee township in
1880. He was married December 26, 1861, to Hester A. Keefer, who died September
6, 1876, leaving two children: John Edward, born January 24, 1863, and Mary B.,
September 4, 1865. His second marriage was with Miss Ella Simpson, who was born
May 18, 1855. She has had two children: Gertrude Kate, born October 7, 1878, and
George Howard, November 17, 1879.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fountain/bios/marr1068gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 2.4 Kb