History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 757, 758

    Dr. Isaac F. Marquis, whose success as a physician and
surgeon has made his name well known throughout Cedar and 
adjoining counties, was born in Darke County, Ohio, December
22, 1849, and is the son of George W. and Elizabeth (Miller)
Marquis.  George W. Marquis was born in Virginia, but when 
quite small went with his parents of Ohio, where he grew to 
manhood, and where he was twice married, his second wife being
Miss Miller, mother to the subject of this sketch.  In about 
1858 George Marquis moved to Cedar County, Mo., where he is now
living with his third wife.  He is a successful tiller of the
soil.  His father, William Kidd Marquis, was a native of Virginia,
and of French extraction.  He was a soldier in the War of 1812,
and an early settler of Ohio, where he died about thirty years
ago.  Dr. Marquis, the elder of two children, received a fair 
education in the common schools, and began for himself in 1868,
as a farm hand in St. Clair County.  In about 1872 he began 
practicing medicine, having studied with a cousin, Dr. A. C. 
Marquis.  He practice with success until 1884-85, and then 
attended the American Medical College at St. Louis, from which
institution he graduated in the same year.  He first commenced
practicing at Osceola, was then in Bates County, after that 
was five years at Roscoe, and since 1890 he has resided on his
present farm near Cedar Springs, where he has 200 acres of 
good land.  He settled on the farm with the intention of 
retiring from practice, but has found it impossible to do.  
He was married, in 1874, to Miss Marila Marquis, a native of 
Jay County, Ind., and the daughter of Dr. James and Mary 
Marquis, natives of Virginia.  Her parents lived in Jay County,
Ind., but came to Missouri soon after the war, and here the 
father practiced his profession successfully for some time.
To Dr. Isaac F. Marquis and wife were born four children, 
one son and two daughters now living.  The Doctor was a Republican
in politics until 1876, since which time he has been a Greenbacker
and Prohibitionist.  His first presidential vote was cast for
Gen. Grant, in 1872.  He is a member of the Good Templars, 
and is also a member of the Farmers' Alliance.  Mrs. Marquis
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in good standing.

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Pages 757, 758

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