MARSHALL, SAMUEL TAYLOR

MARSHALL, PATTERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 21:23:20

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

MARSHALL, SAMUEL TAYLOR, attorney at law ; was born near Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio ; educated in Maimi University, at Oxford, from which he graduated in 1840 ; he studied law a few months in Cincinnati ; went from there to LaFayette, Ind., and continued his studies in the office of Pettit & Orth, leading lawyers of that State; he joined the Patriot Expedition to Canada, was captured, and suffered much in prison from July, 1841, until February, 1842 ; he holds a commission as Lieutenant Colonel received in that service ; in December, 1842, he came to Fort Madison, and the county seat being located at West Point, he began the practice of law there in February, 1843 ; in 1846, Mr. Marshall came to this city; has practiced and resided here ever since, with good success. Mr. Marshall married on the 26th of February, 1846, to Miss Louisa Patterson, daughter of Col. Wm. Patterson, of this city, and has had a family of ten children, six now living.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879