Caledonia

MARSHALL, Jesse

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 256 
(portrait p 256)

Jesse MARSHALL, late of West Burke [Caledonia County, Vermont], was born 12 
December 1817 in Ludlow [Windsor County, Vermont], son of Jesse and Sarah 
(HALL) MARSHALL. Receiving his education in the public schools of Guildhall 
[Essex County] and Burke, to which latter town his parents removed in 1833, 
he first purchased a small farm which he cleared but sold in 1854. He then 
bought a much larger property, on which he lived during the rest of his days, 
bringing it up to a fine state of cultivation, and devoting special attention 
to the breeding of Devon cattle and Morgan horses. He was eminently 
successful in all his agricultural enterprises, and was one of the 
substantial men of the town whose good judgment and sound sense was esteemed 
by all who came in contact with him. He became a large stockholder in the 
Fairbanks Scale Company, in various banks, and was largely interested in real 
estate in the town of Burke and its vicinity.

Mr. MARSHALL for very many years had served as selectman, overseer, lister 
and auditor of the town in which he resided, and enjoyed to such an extent 
the confidence of the community, that in 1870 and 1872 he was called by a 
Republican constituency to represent Burke in the state Legislature, where he 
rendered important service upon the grand list and other committees; and was 
entrusted with the duties of administrator of many estates. A strong 
Universalist in his religious belief, he attended and supported the 
Universalist church. He was a very charitable and public-spirited man, and 
his death , 21 May 1892, was sincerely mourned as an irreparable loss by a 
large circle of friends and acquaintances. On 20 July 1843 he [Jesse 
MARSHALL] was married to Calista A., daughter of John and Nancy (BEMIS) 
MARTIN, of Burke [Caledonia County, Vermont], who died 18 June 1862. By her 
he had: Carrie (deceased), Benoni Hall, and Fayette (deceased). On 30 July 
1862 Jesse MARSHALL was again married, to Isabel M., daughter of Joshua and 
Sarah M. (ALLEN) THOMAS, of Burke.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly