Biographical Sketch of
David Marley
From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883; Page 317
David Marley was born in Wampa, Erie Co., N. Y., June 25, 1850. He is the son of John and Theresa (Sedgewick) Marley, who emigrated to Douglas township, Mitchell county, in 1868. They bought forty acres of wild land on section 6. In 1875 David bought sixty acres on section 5. In 1881 he built a frame house which is now his home.
He is republican in politics, and a member of the Catholic church at New haven. He married Mary Sullivan Jan. 11, 1881. John Marley, a brother of David, was born at Melford, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Oct. 31, 1856. He has always lived at home, and has inherited the homestead. He is unmarried.
Submitted by Gordon Felland, April 2004