Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Marksman, Francis J. 1878 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

FRANCIS J. MARKSMAN.

    Francis J. Marksman, a well-known farmer of Vermillion township, this
county, is a native son of Marshall county and has lived here all his life. He
was born at Frankfort on July 27, 1878, a son of John and Mary (Rooney)
Marksman, early settlers in Marshall county, the former of whom is now living at
Kansas City, Missouri, where the latter died in 1914.

    John Marksman was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1844 and remained there
until he was eighteen years of age, when, in 1862, he came to the United States,
locating in New Jersey, and shortly afterward enlisted as a soldier of the Union
for service during the Civil War as a member of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New
York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war. During
that service he was severely wounded during the battle of Cold Harbor. Upon the
completion of his military service Mr. Marksman went to Ohio, where he remained
until 1869, when he came to Kansas and began to work for the railroad company at
Atchison, where he remained until 1871, when he came to Marshall county, having
been made foreman of the railway section at Frankfort and in that village he
made his home, engaged in railway work seven years, at the end of which time he
bought a tract of one hundred and twenty acres in Vermillion township and there
established his home. He was a good farmer and gradually increased his land
holdings, with the assistance of his sons, until he became the owner of six
hundred acres of well-improved land. In 1912 he sold forty acres of his farm and
retired from active farming, he and his wife moving to Kansas City, Missouri,
where Mrs. Marksman died on December 22, 1914, at the age of sixty-nine years.
She was an earnest member of the Catholic church, as is Mr. Marksman, and their
children were reared in that faith. Of these children the subject of this sketch
was the sixth in order of birth, the others being as follow: John, a farmer, now
living at Watsonville, California; Katherine, who, as Sister Ignatia, is now a
teacher in a parochial school at Topeka; Mary, who is a trained nurse, now
engaged in that humane profession at Kansas City, Missouri; Anna, who as Sister
Hyacinthia, is a Sister of Charity at Leavenworth; James, who died in infancy;
Ella, who married M. Ahern and is now living in Chicago; Margaret, who was
graduated from St. Margarets at Kansas City and is now a trained nurse in that
city; Elizabeth, who is keeping house for her father at Kansas City, and Joseph,
living on the home farm in Vermillion township, who married Nellie Shyne, who
also was born in this county, and has one child.

    Francis J. Marksman, who is the owner of a tract of eighty acres, was reared
in Vermillion township, having been but an infant when his parents moved there
from Frankfort, and received his schooling in district No. 98. From the days of
his youth he was a valued assistant to his father in the labors of the home farm
and upon his father's retirement in 1912 he and his brother, Joseph, assumed the
management of the place and successfully operated the same. Francis J. Marksman
is a member of the Catholic church. In his political views he is a Republican
and gives a good citizen's attention to local civic affairs. Fraternally, he is
affiliated with the local council of the Knights of Columbus and takes a warm
and active interest in the affairs of the same.

    Mr. Marksman was married to Miss Tresa Deneke, of Beloit, and they are now
living on his own farm.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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