BIOGRAPHIES:  Levi MARBLE, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Levi Marble, farmer and thresher, P. O. Durand, was born at Faston,
Vt., April 4, 1819, and is a son of Butler E. and Matilda (Laws)
Marble.  The Marble family are of English descent.  Mr. and Mrs. B. E.
Marble had eight children, namely:  Abel, Levi, Jahiel, Mary (Mrs. A.
L. Clauson), Milton, Ezra, Ansel and Jackson.  When Levi was six years
of age the family removed to Shadigee, N. Y., and later to Oswego
Falls, where he worked on the canal.  He attended school but six
months.  When about sixteen years old he went to Coldwater, Mich., and
thence to Genesee, Whiteside county, Ill., where he engaged in milling.
In 1854 he removed to Dead Lake Prairie in the present township of
Waterville, Pepin county, Wis., bringing his goods and provisions from
Wabasha in a keel-boat.  He built the first frame house on the prairie,
near the old Indian trail, which was used by the red men for several
years thereafter.  He also built the first school-house on the prairie
at his own expense (1854).  In 1855 he introduced the first threshing
machine in the county, and has carried on that business each season
since.  For several years he threshed nearly all the grain in this and
several adjoining counties.  He also placed the burrs and did the first
grinding of grain in Dorwin's mill, the first that was built in that
section.  He also built a ferry boat at Round Hill which served the
community for several years.  Mr. Marble now owns a well-improved farm
of 275 acres.  

November 14, 1841, Mr. Marble married, in Whiteside county, Ill., Miss
Jerusha Closson, a daughter of John and Amy (Lee) Closson.  Mrs. Marble
was born in Oswego county, N. Y.  Mr. and Mrs. Marble have seven
children:  Ansel W., Matilda (Mrs. H. W. Carlisle), Hettie (Mrs. H.
Saddler), John C., Rosalie J. (Mrs. J. J. Larson), Levi E., and Hattie
L. (Mrs. J. C. Holden).  He is a democrat in politics and a gentleman
who commands the respect of a large circle of acquaintances.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 679-680.


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