![]() ![]() ![]() John G went to the mountains and engaged in mining for a time then returned and settled on the southwest quarter of section 6. They lived together until 1855, when Simon died, and soon afterward the mother was taken sick and went to live with her daughter, Mrs. In the fall of 1852 their mother, then a widow, came, accompanied by two sons, Mahlon and George. During the spring of that year John G and Simon Marshall, natives of Jefferson Co., Ohio, came here and entered 160 acres of land on sections 3, 4, 9 and 10. The first permanent settlement within the limits now comprising the town of Marshall was made in 1852. The surface features here are very similar to those of the balance of Richland county's towns. It has 167 farms, all in a high state of cultivation. In 1880 the census gave Marshall a population of 991. The town is inhabited by a purely agricultural population, and has no villages of any importance. It is bounded on the west by the town of Sylvan on the north by Bloom on the east by Rockbridge and on the south by Dayton. This town embraces congressional township 11 north, range 1 west. ![]() Richland County, Wisconsin History - Chapter 27 Chapter 27 - Town of Marshall. ![]()
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