Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.

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in iUnadilla Township. They were p)arents of seven
children, only two are now living. The original of
our sketch was born August 28, 1838, in the city
of Glasgow, Scotland, on the banks of the Clyde.
He was denied educational advantages, being
obliged to begin work when very young, having
learned the stone-cutter's trade when fourteen
years of age, and being only sixteen years old when
coming to Michigan. In 1850 Mr. Marshall went
South, being engaged in work on a large stone
building that was to be used as a cotton factory.
He remained South for one year, and then went to
St. Louis, working at his trade for one year. Since
that time lie has devoted himself and his energies to
the development of the resources in his line in the
State of Michigan.
Part of the farm on which our subject now lives
is that which his father originally owned, lie lhaving purchased eighty acres of his father's place.
His farm is finely improved and bears evidence of
high cultivation. Our subject hlas improved a
farm which he owns in Stockbridge Towniship, Ingham County, but sold it to advantage. His mar_
riage took place January 1, 1855, his bride beino
Miss Betsey I)odd, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. They are thie parents of four children, only
three of whom are now living. They are Kittie,
George and Caroline. Kittie is now Mrs. 0..L.
Smith, of Gregory; Caroline, is Mrs. l)avid Sayles,
and lives in 'Fennessee. Mrs. Marshall died in July,
1878, and lie of whom we write was again married
November 17, 1881, to Mrs. Sloanburg, a widow
who had no children. SlIe also was a native of
Scotland. 1Her parents were William aind Christina
(Piper) Craig. They were natives of Scotland, being married in that country. They emigrated to
Connecticut in 1832, and removed to Michigan in
1836, and settled on a farm in Unadilla Township,
on section 34. In 1850 they removed to Stockbridge, where they both died, the father in 1876,
the mother passing away September 28, 1891. Mr.
and Mrs. Craig were charter members of the First
Presbyterian Church of Unadilla. Mrs. Craig was
the last surviving charter member.
Mr. Marshall is now the owner of two hundred
and seventeen and a half acres of fine land, a
large part of it being under cultivation. lie has

done a great amount of clearing, and all the building where he now lives, having a fine home, which
is a model of rural neatness and taste. Ile also has
good barns, and erected the residence and outbuildings where his son now lives. Mr. Marshall still
carries on the work of the farm for himself. Iis
wife is associated with the Presbyterian Church,
while lie is liberal in his religious views. lie used
to be a (;ranger, and has been a member of tire
School Board. Ile is a Republican in politics, and
for three years has done good service as HIighway
Commissioner. The gentleman of whom we write
started out empty-handed, and what lie now has lie
has earned by the hardest work, having had but
few advantages upon which other men depend. Mr.
Marshall carries on general farming, uniting to the
culture of the soil thie raising and breeding of fine
stock.
iAMIES MO)NROE. Among the quiet and
tunostentatious, yet thoroughly worthy and
efficient members of the business circles of
lowell, Livingston County, we are gratified
to name one who bears an honorable name, and
whlo, althoulgh not claiming descent from the Presidential chair', traces his lineage to a hero in both
the War of 1812 and the War of the Revolution.
This citizen was born April 27, 1827, in the
townshil) of Richmond, Ontario County, N.Y., and
is a son of Lemuel and Martha (Iawling) Monroe,
natives of thle Eastern States. Lemuel Monroe was
a boot and shoemaker, who had served his country
nobly in both the Revolutionary War and the conflict of 1812. In his later days lie came to Michigan and lived with a son Francis, until called
hence by death after lie had reached the very venerable age of ninety years..He had been thle husband of three wives, and by them had eighteen
children, and our subject is the youngest of this
patriarchal flock.
The mother of -James Monroe died in New York
in 1857, and lie was reared upon a farm until he
reached the age of twenty-four years, but did not