Marshall, John (Marshel, Marshal)

Born: 1782-XX-XX Ireland, United Kingdom

Flourished: Shawneetown, Illinois

Alternate name: Marshel, Marshal

John Marshall was the father of Samuel D. Marshall. By 1815, John Marshall had settled in Shawneetown, Illinois, where he was a merchant and a banker and also served as postmaster. He represented Gallatin County in the Illinois House of Representatives during the first session of the first General Assembly of the state, from 1818 to 1819. In 1850, Marshall was living with his wife in Shawneetown, where he was employed as a merchant and owned $12,000 in real property.

John M. Palmer, ed., The Bench and Bar of Illinois: Historical and Reminiscent (Chicago: Lewis, 1899), 2:851; History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1887), 22, 97, 111; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 197; Illinois House Journal. 1818. 1st G. A., 1st sess., 3; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Shawneetown, Gallatin County, IL, 387.