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About J E Marshall:
J. E. MARSHALL, right-of-way commissioner for the St. L. Ft. S. & W. R. R., is a native of Virginia,
and was born in Fairfield County, January 31, 1847. At an early age he removed to Muscatine, Iowa,
where he was educated and reared. In 1862 he enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, serving
nearly three years in the capacity of First Deputy Sergeant. He was in the Department of the Tennessee
on the Red River expedition, and participated in many prominent events of the war, locating in Alabama
when the troubles were over, and was there identified as a cotton planter for several years. In May,
1878, he came to Kansas, and for a time was material agent for the A., T. & S. F. R. R., and later
for the A. & P. For the past two years he has been connected with the St. L., Ft. S. & W. R. R., with
headquarters at El Dorado. He was married in Montgomeryunty, Ala., to Miss M. E. Caffey, of that city.
They have four children - James E., William H., Maggie M., and Jennie P. Mr. Marshall is a K. T. Mason.
He was elected Councilman in El Dorado in 1881 and 1882.
Source: William G. Cutler's History of the
State of Kansas, Butler Co
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