Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

LANSING TOWNSHIIP AND (CITY, WITI IIISTORY

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DAUGHTER GIVES INTERESTING SKETCI OF DR.
MARSHALL, LOCAL PIONEER.
2720 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Calif.,
October 29, 1921.
Editor of Lansing State Journal, Lansing, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
A Lansing friend has sent me an article clipped from your publication of Sept. 22. This article was supposed to be a sketch of
the life of the late Dr. Marshall, written by Dr. F. N. Turner.
The inaccuracies and glaring misstatements are a great injustice
to the memory of a man whose life and service played such a
prominent part of the lives of the citizens of North Lansing thirty
years ago.
I am therefore enclosing a corrected sketch of the life of my
father, with the earnest hope that you will publish it, that your
readers may know that truth may be as interesting as fiction and
a more perfect tribute to the memory of a useful citizen.
Yours very truly,
LAURA E. MARSHALL.
The physician who carried on the practice of medicine and surgery for 24 years prior to 1890 was Dr. Orville Marshall, and not
Thomas, that being the name of his son.
Dr. Marshall graduated from the University of Michigan in
1865. He had not been drafted for service in the Civil War because of his delicate health. But in the last year of the war, he,
with four other medical students, went to Washington as volunteer surgeons. He was stationed at City Point and within a week
was put in charge of the hospital at that place. After three
months of unceasing work he became ill and was sent home. He
only reached Rochester when he became so ill that he sought the
home of an aunt where lie remained several months. The effect
of this illness followed him through life.
After graduation Dr. Marshall shared the office of Dr. Chapin,
of Chelsea, for one year. During that year he visited his aunt,
Mrs. Elisha Turner, in North Lansing and decided that the