Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-05-26

bank for the greater part OF the day
Wednesday and Thursday, and on the lat
ter day appeared to be feeling unusually
we'll After leaving the bank in the after
noon he spent some time arranging the de-
tails for the publication of the forthcoming
pamphlet of the Home for the Aged and
Disabled, of which a proof was to be sent
him the next day. This was his last work.
In the evening he came down town to at
tend a meeting of the Rural Improvement
association. During the night he expert
enced a severe chill and in the morning II
was evident that pneumonia had fastened
upon him in a very critical form. He be-
came almost Immediately deliriOus and re-
manned so nearly to the end, experiencing
successive periods of excitement when he
insisted that he must be up and about
the work which was so pressing to be done.
Towards the last the condition of the
lungs was somewhat improved, but the
nervous exhaustion was too grea' TO per-
nit him to rally. The attendance of ply
scans, nurses and friends was unremit-
ting, but the disease was too violent TO be
controlled in any degree.
Mr.. Marshall was the second child and
only son of Azor and Ann Esterbrook
Marshall. Upon the marriage of his pa
rents they took up their residence in Oak
Grove, Wis, and here Oscar Azor was
born Aug. Q, 1858. The family removed
TO BrattlebOro while he was yet an infant,
and here his whole life has been spent. He
was educated in the public schools, and i'm
mediately after leaving the High school in
1875 he entered the Vermont national
bank, where he remained until 1888, when
he became assistant cashier of the Peoples
national bank. Oct. /, 1886, upon the
resignation of w. A. Faulkner, Mr.. Mar
shall was appointed cashier, and this posi-
ton he held until his death, enjoying to
the fullest degree the confidence and re-
spect of the directors, of his associate en-
plOyes and of the business community.
He was a man TO whom the community
turned with instructive confidence, and his
channels for public usefulness were many.
He was a corporator of the Vermont saw
| ings bank, the Brattleboro savings bank
and the Wilmington savings bank. He
was one of the Brooks library trustees I'M
der the provisions of Mr.. Brooks's will,
and was elected one of the town auditors
for the current year. He was one of the
original members of the Rural Improve
ment association, had been its secretary
| from the first, and was elected chairman of
the executive committee at the last annual
meeting. He was president of the High
school alumni association for the present
| year. In personal business and financial
affairs he was trusted adviser. The Sc
cret of his public usefulness lay largely in
the fact that, besides his ability, candor
and sincerity, he was never willing TO be
nominally connected with any organization
that had work to do, but took laboring
oar and saw that the work was done.
In the management of the Peoples bank
no man could have been more completely
trusted. His judgment was mature, his
business sense was alert aud always on the
| right side, while his native courtesy and
| gentleness made all the customers of the
bank his personal friends. No man was
better fitted than he to carry oEt the orig
| inal thought of Mr.. Starr, when the insti-
tuition was organized, of making il in a
real sense the peoples bank, by extending
| its accommodation to customers of limited
means with the same care and considera-
ton as to those who could command great.
er favors.
Politically Mr.. Marshall was a Demo.
crat, and his party convictions and asso-
Citations were unwavering. Born too late
to catch any of the intense antagonisms
which marked the period of the war, he
looked for what seemed to him to be the
best in our politics, and he was fully and
even aggressively identified with the pro
gressive element OF his party. 1t was a
compliment of which any young man
might be proud when, IN 1890, he was
elected the representative from this strong
ly Republican town, and at the beginning
of the session of that year took his seat in
the legislature. He introduced, among the
earliest measures of the session, a bill es
tablishing the secret ballot in Vermont
and it was largely through his activity and
oversight that this was enacted into law,
and now, with such modification as ha.
been found necessary, finds a permanent
place upon our statute book. Mr.. Mar
shall was prominently mentioned as the
Democratic candidate for governor in 1892
but gave no countenance to the suggestion
and when, later on, he was put upon the
ticket for lieutenant governor he declined
the nomination.
Mr.. Marshall was married Sept. 25, 1888
to Katherine r., eldest daughter of Fran
els w. and Matilda c. Brooks. Two chill
dren have been born to them, Elizabeth G
and Brooks, aged seven and four wears re
spectively. Besides his wife and children
he is survived by his father and mother
and by his sister Stella, the wife of F. X
Barrows.
1t is not too much to speak of Mr.. Mar
shall's life and character as a typical New
England product typical Vermont prod
uct, il might well be said His whole life
from childhood to maturity, has been spent
in the open view of the Brattleboro com
munity, and of him it can be said in the
fllIesL sense that There was no stain o,