Bio:  John Marston, Red River Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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John Marston is one of the leading planters of Red River Parish, La., and was
born is that State on may 6, 1835.  His parents are Henry and Abbie (Johnston)
Marston, the father being a native of Boston, Mass., and the mother of South
Carolina.  His father was born in 1795, emigrated to Louisiana in 1821, and
settled in New Orleans, where he began the merchandising business.  After
conducting this business for four years he sold out and followed farming for a
number of years, but later became cashier of the Nashville Union Bank, and has
also held the office of parish treasurer.  He died in 1886, his widow still
surviving him and living in Clinton, La., she is a member of the Baptist
Church.  Of the ten children born to them, three are now living, John being
the fourth in order of birth.  He was educated in Nashville, Tenn., at the
Weston Military Institute.  At the age of twenty-two having decided to start
out for himself, he accepted a position with a railroad company, but remained
with them only three years.  February 17 1859, he married Miss Emily Hochard,
also a native of this State, and this union has been blessed with five
children:  Elizabeth, Henry, John, George and William.  He has a large
plantation owning 1,000 acres of land, 450 acres of which are under
cultivation, the farm being well stocked, and upon which is located a mill and
cotton-gin.  He is a member of the Clinton Lodge No.27, I. O. O. F., and has
held every office in the same.  He was also president of the police jury for
eight years.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and are respected citizens of this county.

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