The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1913-07-03
Hon. Thomas F. Marshall and
Wife Attend Alumni Re-
union at Platteville.
Mr.. Marshall in First Class t.
Graduate Is Just Presented
With Diploma.


The exercises at the Alumni Reunion
of the Normal School this year will be
unusually interesting to the older resi-
dents of the city.
This will be the fortieth anniversary
of the graduation of the class of 1873
which was the first large class to be
sent out by the school and was COM
posed of twenty-six members. Nine
teen of them are still living, seven
having finished their work forever.
1t is expected that number of the
surviving members will be present and
a unique feature of the evening" g enter
talnment will be a musical program to
be given by the Misses Frances and
Florence Cleary and Messrs. George
and Louis Cleary, children of Mrs. Ada
Grindell Cleary and the Misses Kather-
inc and Elizabeth Murphy and Mr..
John W. Murphy, children of j. w.
Murphy and children of P. T. Stephens
and Mrs. Carrie Edwards Stephens and
other children and grandchildren of the
members of the class.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Cleary
and Mr.. Murphy were members of this
class and almost all of the young people
taking part are either students or
graduates of the school.
| Another unique feature of this. Re-
union will be the presentation of a
diploma of the school to Hon. Thomas
Marshall of Oakes, North Dakota, who
was member of this class during the
entire course and was unable to be
present at commencement as he had
secured a position as surveyor under
Hon. w. p. Dewey, then Surveyor
General of Dakota Territory and was
compelled to leave shortly before COM
mencement to take up his work in that
territory. Mr.. Marshall has been very
successful in civil and political life in
Dakotas, having established and suc-
cessfully managed for many years a
large banking business at Oakes, North
Dakota, with connections at many
other points. He has served as mayor
of his city several terms, also served
as senator in the legislature of North
Dakota and as member of the house
of representatives for eight years, a
member at large from the State of
North Dakota, and was twice leading
candidate for United States senator,
once receiving plurality of the pop
ular vote.
Mr.. Marshall was born in Hannibal,
Missouri, in 1854, but when quite
young his parents moved to Platteville
and Mr.. Marshall grew to manood here.
His father, George Marshall, for time
operated the saw mill known in early
days as the Mckee mill on Little
Platte and later he conducted a livery
and dray business in the city of Platte
vile and the son at one time ran a book
store and news stand on Main street
where Schmitt's Restaurant now
stands.
Mr., Marshall married Miss Ella
Grigsby sister of Colonel Melvin
Grigsby of the rough riders. Miss
Grigsby was graduate of the school
in the class Of 1875, and her famous
brother was a graduate in the class of
1869, the first class.
Mr.. Marshall was first elected to
Congress in the fifty-seventh Congress
and in the Sixtieth Congress was joined
by his classmate, J. w. Murphy of this
city. This class then had the UNIQUE
distinction of being the only class from
any school in the United States to have
two members in the::House at that time !.
The Wisconsin State Board of Nor
NAL Regents at the request of a mem
ber of the Class and in view of the
eminent public service of Mr.. Marshall
have issued him a:Diploma of the School
with theIrequest that it be presented to
him at the 40th reunion with the con-
gratulations Of the Board of Regents.
Another member of the class was
long prominent figure in the State of
North Dakota, Judge David E. Morgan
for many years Chief Justice of the
Supreme.sCourt of that State. Owing
to i'll health he resigned about two
years ago and went to California where
he died about year ago. His remains
were brought back to Wisconsin and
buried at his old home in Spring Green.
Here is roster of members of the
class who we're still living and had
made good.
The work Of forty years shows that
this was strong class. They have
been unusually successful and the re-
markable thing i. there has not been
. single failure. Their career speaks
well for the school and their teachers
. we'll q for their own character and
industry.