Turner County, SD Biographies.....Marshall, George W. October 30, 1825 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

GEORGE W. MARSHALL, one of the well-to-do and prosperous farmers and stock raisers
residing in Parker, Turner county, is a native of “Old Virginia” and was born in
Jefferson county of that state, October 30, 1825. He is a son of Thomas and Anna
(Boggs) Marshall, the former of Irish and the latter of Scotch descent. They were
both natives of Virginia, where they remained until the father’ death, which
occurred when he was comparatively a young man - only thirty-five years old. Mrs.
Marshall’s death occurred at Moline, Ill.

George was the second child of a family of four children, and passed his youth in
his native place on a farm. When eighteen years old he started to learn the trade of
a miller, at which he worked for fourteen years, the last three years of which time
he spent in business for himself in partnership with John W. McCurdy. He removed
with his wife, from Virginia to Marion county, Mo., where he remained a year and
then went to Dubuque, Iowa, to engage in the commission business, buying and selling
horses, etc., for two years. His next venture was in Grant county, Wis., where he
established saw and grist mills, in connection with which he did a little farming.
After selling out his interests in Grant county, he removed to Platteville. Wis.,
where he operated a livery and stage business, and also prospected in the lead mines
in the vicinity. Thence he went to Yankton, Dak., and drove a team for a year, later
taking up a claim near Childstown, Turner county. From that time he prospered
wonderfully, and in 1883 was the owner of four quarter sections. This property he
sold out when he moved to Parker and purchased 320 acres in section 21, where he is
engaged in farming, and also does an extensive business buying horses and other
stock for shipment.

Mr. Marshall was married in Virginia in 1851 to Miss Sarah Heflebower, a native of
Jefferson county of that state, and they are the parents of five children, viz.:
Thomas F., of Oakes, N. Dak.; Virginia, at home; Jessie, the wife of S. P.
Wentworth, of Parker; Charles L., residing in Aberdeen, S. Dak.; and Albert, who
died when he was but two years old. Mr. Marshall is, and always has been, a stanch
supporter of the principles of the Republican party". He has served five years on
the school board since his residence in Parker, and also held the position of school
treasurer in Childstown.


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