BIO:  Andrew MARSHALL, Sr., Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 442-443

ANDREW MARSHALL, Sr., retired farmer, Fairfield, is a descendant of James 
Marshall, who came to Hamiltonban Township, this county, from Ireland, and 
settled on “Carroll’s Tract,” where his family were born and reared, and where 
he died.  The property is yet in possession of his descendants.  The family of 
James Marshall were James, Samuel, John, Andrew and Elizabeth, all now deceased.  
Andrew, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the tract near the 
present residence of Andrew Marshall, Sr., in 1782, and died near his birthplace 
in 1852.  In 1830 and 1831 he was a member of the Legislature.  He was prominent 
in the settlement of estates, having the confidence of the people, and, as long 
as he was able to attend to the duties, was director of the Gettysburg Bank; he 
was for years an elder in the Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church.  His wife, 
Mary, a daughter of Benjamin Reed, was born in Hamiltonban Township, this 
county, and died in November, 1864.  Their children were James, who died young; 
Benjamin, born in 1815, married Sarah Knox, and died in 1872 (his widow is still 
living); James (second), born in 1823, and died in 1885, married to Rebecca 
Marshall, a cousin, who lives on the old homestead with her son; Andrew, Jr., 
the third son, was born November 18, 1818, and lived on the farm until 1852.  
After reaching his majority he, with his brother James, farmed the home-place 
until his father’s death, in 1852, when James took the farm alone, and Andrew 
spent the three following years mainly in the West, locating in Fairfield, this 
county, in 1855.  In 1873 he bought the farm which had belonged to his Uncle 
John, and, on the death of his brother Benjamin, bought his farm, now owning 
both.  In 1860 he bought a property in Fairfield, which has ever since been his 
home.  September 22, 1859, he was married to Helen M., daughter of Samuel Knox.  
Her great-grandfather was one of the first settlers in Hamiltonban Township.  
When he came here the Indians were numerous in this place, and he was truly a 
pioneer.  The family is a noted one.  The grandfather of Mrs. Marshall was a 
physician; her Uncle John, a noted minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and 
one of the founders of the American Tract Society, died in 1858, and his son, 
Dr. James Mason Knox, is now president of Lafayette College, Easton, Penn.  Mrs. 
Marshall’s father was born in 1794, and died in 1845, in the place where he was 
born.  He was an unassuming man, attending well to his home duties.  His 
daughter, Helen M., was born March 11, 1829, and on the death of her parents 
came to Fairfield, this county, where, September 22, 1859, she was married to 
Mr. Marshall.  They have two children:  James B., born January 1, 1864, who, 
after getting a common school education, went for over three years to the State 
Normal School, at Millersville, and is now with an uncle in the commission and 
flour business, in Baltimore, Md.; Maggie R., born May 9, 1872, at home with her 
parents.  They have also another child, who is as dear to them as their own, the 
orphan daughter of Mrs. Marshall’s sister, Euphemia, wife of E. Thomas 
Rhinehart, of Baltimore, and who died when her child was but ten days old.  This 
young lady’s name is Mary Helen, born March 3, 1862.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have 
been life-long companions.  Born within sight of each other’s homes, there 
sprang up between them an affection which fitly culminated in marriage.  They 
are members of Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Marshall is a 
trustee.  In politics he is a Republican.