Passé et présent de Jasper Comté (Iowa) . les agriculteurs et les hommes de Jasper comté qui iseminentlv qui mérite le succès qu'il a remporté et aussi du haut esteemin qu'il est universellement admis par tous, c'est George F. Marshall, de Fairview township,va) est originaire de la banques lointains et de Bonnie Scotland braes, et ceux qui savent le mieux s'accepter dans la déclaration qu'il a beaucoup de traits de caractère d'thesterling ces personnes accidentées, qui ont tant fait muchfor le bien général de notre nouvelle république. Sa vie a été conforme à la fois inmotive et action, et alors qu'il a peiné pour son propre advan

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Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . farmers and stock men of Jasper county who iseminentlv deserving of the success he has achieved and also of the high esteemin which he is universally held is George F. Marshall, of Fairview township, will) hails from the faraway banks and braes of bonnie Scotland, and thosewho know him best will acquiesce in the statement that he has many of thesterling traits of character of those rugged people, who have done so muchfor the general good of our new republic. His life has been consistent both inmotive and action and while he has labored for his own advancement he hasnot neglected his general duties as a neighbor and citizen. Mr. IMarshall was born ten miles east of Glasgow, Scotland, on June 15, 1858. He is the son of Robert and Mary (Forsyth) Marshall, the father bornin the same vicinity as was the subject on November 10. 1831, and the motherwas born in Ayreshire, Scotland, on October 17, 1837 They grew up, wereeducated and married in Scotland, and there the elder Marshall worked in the. ^I^^OA^cOf JASlKK COINTV, IOWA. 905 coal and iron mines. He went to New Zealand in 1863 where he prospectedfor gold, and was very successful, hnding a fortune in nuggets, but unfortu-nately it was stolen from him, and he was then compelled to work a year inorder to get money enough to pay his expenses home He returned to Scot-land in 1866 and in June of that year he emigrated with his family to Monroe, Iowa, and bought forty acres in Fairview township, Jasper county, and eightyears later he bought two hundred acres farther east and there he and his sonGeorge F. operated a coal mine for fifteen years, often employing twenty men.They enjoyed a good income from this source, but later Mr. Marshall turnedhis attention to his farm. He raised large numbers of Poland China hogs. Hewas a union labor man and politically a Democrat later in life. He was amember of the Methodist church. Accumulating a competency, he retiredfrom active life in 1906 and move

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