BIO: James B. Marshall, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER XL.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG. 

445  BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

  JAMES B. MARSHALL, physician, Shippensburg, was born near Fairfield, 
Adams Co., Penn., January 1, 1856, son of Thomas and Jane Ann (Kyner) 
Marshall, natives of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish descent.  Thomas 
Marshall was a farmer all his life, and was also a prominent Democratic 
politician.  Dr. James B. Marshall is the fourth in a family of five 
children.  He acquired his education in the common schools and in the 
Normal school at Shippensburg, this county, and at the age of eighteen 
years he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Alexander 
Stewart & Son.  In 1877 he entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, 
where he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1879, and the same year 
commenced practice in Shippensburg, this county, where he still 
continues.  The Doctor is a member of Cumberland County Medical 
Society.  In politics he is a Republican.