The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-09-01

charge of w. L. Stockwell, grand sec
rotary of the Masonic fraternity il
North Dakota, a close personal friend
of Nh. Marshall, and were very i'm.
pressive. Nearly a hundred Masons
and Eastern Star ladies formed &
group about the casket while the sec
rotary read the beautiful service.
When he had concluded, the company
marched past, each brother deposit
ing a sprig of evergreen upon the
casket of their departed friend.
AS Mr.. Marshall had desired to be
buried in Cakes, he also expressed a
wish that his last resting place be
marked by a native boulder. James
Hockenberry, who was employed by
Mr.. Marshall for over twenty years,
has found several of the huge stones
from which Mrs. Marshall will make
her selection. One side will be faced
and marked simply with Mr.. Mar
shall's name and the date of his
death. As the deceased had neglect
ed during his life time to select a
site in the cemetery, Mrs. Marshall
chose a spot or top of the hill over
looking the country to the east and
south, where Mr.. Marshall had roam
ed years ago in charge of his stock,
and where he spent some of the hap
piest years of his life.
Thomas Frank Marshall was born
in Hannibal, Mo-, on March 7, 1854,
his parents being George w. and
Sarah f. (Hefflebower) Marshall.
The father was a native of Kentucky
and of Scotch-1rish descent, while
the mother was born in Virginia of
Dutch parents. He was educated in
the state normal school at Pl%atteville,
Wis, where he pursued special
courses in mathematics and survey
ing. Three months prior TO the time
of his graduation his health failed
and having exhausted his funds, he
left school. Forty years later the
board of regents conferred upon him
his diploma, calling him to the school
on CTo OCCdSlOH.
Mr.. Marshall left Platteville in
March, 1878, reaching Yankton, Da-
kota Territory, shortly afterward alb
solutely without money and with no
very definite idea as to what he in
to do. His first job Was as a
section hand at $1.25 a day. After
working at this for a few weeks he
secured a position as chain carrier
with a surveying crew. The follow
ing year he was successful in getting
a government surveying contract
himself and followed the life of a sur
yeyor internationally for many years.
Dame Fortune having at last deigned
10 smile upon the struggling young
nan, he established a grocery bust
in Yankton, conducting it in
connection with the work of survey
ng and other interests which he de-
later.
In 1888 he moved to Columbia, S.
D., his government survey work tax
ng him to that locality, and while
he engaged in the banking bust
less, purchasing an interest in the
bank of William Davidson
md thus organizing the firm of Da-
7idson & Marshall. Later he became
me of the organizers of the First
National Bank Of Columbia, and was
made a director of that institution.
In 1885 he returned to Yankton,
losed out his business interests and
n the spring of 1887 removed to
lakes, bought an interest in the
Bank of Cakes and became it's cash
er and active manager. Later he
the interest of other stock
olders, becoming sole owner, and in
1902, he nationalized the in
titution, making it the First National
sank of Cakes. Throughout the en-
ire period of his residence here his
usiness activities have been of a
lost important and ~far-reaching
haracter. He organized the Mar
hall-McCartney Co., which is one of
ne big holding companies of the state
nd which acquired the various in
titutions of which Mr.. Marshall was
resident.
In his political views Mr.. Marshall
as a republican. He served as sur
eyor of Turner county, S. D., and
as the first mayor of Cakes after
lie Incorporation of the city, con-
nuing as its chief executive for four |
In 1892 he was elected to the state
snate, serving four years, and was a
andidate for the United States SEN
tie in 1896, but met defeat by one
ote in the caucus that elected Por-
n ]. McCumber. In 1900 he was
lected to the United States cong
ess and remained a member of the