Francis Marshall (1813)

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• Source: S191 Text: Book Text: Samuel C. Dimick biography Text: J. H. Beers Text: Commemorative, Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio Text: (Chicago, Illinois: J.H. Beers and Co, 1897) Text: 1356 Text: Samuel C. Dimick is the proprietor of one of the most noticeable homesteads in Center township. His residence is a handsome and substantial building, flanked by a good barn and the various other outbuildings required by the progressive agriculturist. As a tiller of the soil he is thorough and skillful, and has been uniformly fortunate in his investments. He comes from sturdy New England stock, and was born in Lyme, NH, on June 23, 1835. CONT CONT His father, Chester Dimick, was also there born July 6, 1802 and was a son of Samuel Dimick, a native or Dorchester, Mass. The later aided the Colonies in their struggle for independence, and was married in the Bay State to Abigail Cook, who was born August 12, 1767, ans was a daughter of Samuel Cook, of Vermont, who was also one of the heroes of the Revolution. This worthy couple passed their last days in Lyme, N.H. and to them were born twenty-one children. CONT CONT On attaining man's estate, Chester Dimick followed the occupation of farming. On January 5, 1834, in Lyme, he married Mary Flint, who was born May 8, 1813, and was a daughter of Samuel Flint, of New Hampshire. Six children blessed this union: Samuel C., of this sketch; Charles N., wo was born March 1, 1837, and was accidentally shot in Center township, Wood county, November 5, 1878; Chester E., born February 20, 1839; Liddie A. (deceased), born March 15, 1841; Francis B. (deceased) born February 2, 1844; and Mary F. (deceased), born October 16, 1846. The mother died on May 18, 1861, and Mr. Dimick was again married March 1, 1865, his second union being with Sophia, widow of Jonathan Conant. She passed away in November, 1875. For his third wife, he wedded, July 4, 1876, Nancy Franklin, who is still living. The father was accidentally poisoned by eating ivy root, and died March 4, 1877. CONT CONT We now come to the personal history of our subject, who, after attending the district schools of Lyme, entered the high school of Orford, N.H., where he completed his education. After working on his father's farm for a time, he removed to Wisconsin, where he was in the lumber business for a year, and, on the expiration of that time, went to souther Minnesota, where for a year and a half he had charge of a government farm on the Indian reservation. He then returned to New Hampshire, buying the old homestead, which he operated for seven years, and also engaged in the hardware business, which he later sold out. On again coming west, he located at Toledo, Ohio, where he was engaged in the manufacture of cans for four years, when he disposed of that business. In 1875, we find him a resident of Center township, Wood County, where he purchased 120 acres of the old Williams Farm, and has here since made his home. He has one of the best orchards in the township, and his excellent farm has been brought under a high state of cultivation by industry and good management, with its attendant hard labor. CONT CONT Mr. Dimick was married at Lyme, N. H., in 1860, to Mary Marshall, who was born in 1835, and they became the parents of two children, the younger of whom, Burton C., born November 4, 1869, died in July, 1889; Marshall C., born December 13, 1867, was educated at Toledo and Bowling Green, and now has a half-interest in the homestead farm, to the cultivation and improvement of which he now devotes his energies. He is a young man of good address, genial and industrious, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive farmers of Center township. CONT CONT The father of Mrs. Dimick, Micaiah Marshall, was born at Lyme, N.H., and by occupation was a farmer. On June 30, 1811, he married Charlotte Kimball, by whom he had four children: Polly, born June 8, 1812; Francis, born August 5, 1813; Chauncy, born July 20, 1814; and Charlotte, born December 16, 1815. The mother of this family died in March, 1816. For his second wife, Mr. Marshall wedded Martha Suthard, December 25, 1817. Her birth occured on February 12, 1798. By this union were born twelve children, as follows: B. S., born September 24, 1818, died February 12, 1839; Martha P., born September 17, 1820, died December 10, 1890; Anson S., born December 3, 1823, was accidentally shot July 4, 1874; David E., born February 4, 1825, died February 16, 1852; C. S. born March 22, 1827, died December 30, 1856; Elizabeth K., born March 16, 1829, died September 26, 1845; George C., born January 28, 1831, died December 27, 1883; Harriet E., born May 6, 1833, died December 19, 1860; Mary, born January 10, 1835, is the wife of our subject; Sarah T., born February 15, 1837, died July 9, 1849; Luena L., born July 6, 1841, died April 29, 1863; and Jane E., born August 10, 1845, died March 26, 1879. The wife and mother passed away on December 9, 1865, and Mr. Marshall later wedded Eliza K. Russ, who was born August 16, 1807. He departed this life May 6, 1891, and his last wife died December 18, 1893. CONT CONT Mr. and Mrs. Dimick are social, entertaining people, good conversationalists, and their hospitable home is ever open for the reception of their many friends. They are active and consistent members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has been elder for many years, and, in accordance with his views on the temperance question, casts his vote with the Prohibition party. Mrs. Dimick is now in feeble health, having received a stroke of paralysis, from the effects of which she suffers much. Our subject has practically laid aside business cares, the management of the farm being almost entirely given over to his son.