Leroy Tate Marshall
Leroy Tate Marshall, former clerk of courts for Greene county and a practicing lawyer at Xenia, is a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, the Marshalls having been here since the year in which this county was erected as a separate civic unit of the then new state of Ohio. His great-grandfather John Marshall, who was born in the neighborhood of what is now the city of Lexington, in Kentucky, in 1784, was nineteen years of age when he came up into the valley of the little Miami and settled here in 1803. He became the owner of a considerable tract of land in Sugarcreek township and after his marriage established his home there, all of which is set out at length elsewhere in this volume, together with further details of the history of the Marshall family in this county. John Marshall, the pioneer, was the father of six children, the youngest of whom, Jesse Marshall, married and continued farming in Sugarcreek township. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom three sons and two daughters are still living. Willis Marshall, the eldest of these sons and the father of the subject of this sketch, is now living on a farm over the line in Clinton county, not far from the village of New Burlington. He has been twice married, his first wife, who was Emma Tate and who also was born in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families, the Tates having been here since the second decade of the past century, having died in 1884, leaving two sons, J. Carl and Leroy Tate, the former of whom is now judge of probate for Greene county and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. Willis Marshall later married Laura Holland, of Spring Valley.
Leroy Tate Marshall was born on the old Marshall home farm in Sugarcreek township on November 8, 1883, and was but an infant when his mother died. He supplemented the schooling he received in the neighborhood district school by attendance at a normal training school at Dayton and by a course in the township high school at Bellbrook and then began to teach school, being thus engaged for two years, at the end of which time he entered Cedarville College and was graduated from that institution in 1907. Upon leaving college he was selected as principal of the Cedarville high school and was thus engaged when in the fall he was elected county clerk, having been made the nominee of the Republican party for that office in the preceding campaign. Mr. Marshall entered upon the duties of the office of county clerk in 1909 and served in that capacity for four years. In the meantime he had been devoting such leisure as he could command to the study of law and in December, 1911, passed the examination and was admitted to the bar. Upon the expiration of his term of public office in 1913 Mr. Marshall opened an office for the practice of his profession and for the sale of securities in Xenia and has since been thus engaged. Mr. Marshall is a Republican and for four years, 1912-16, rendered service in behalf of his party as chairman of the Greene county Republican executive committee.
On June 4, 1908, at Cedarville, Leroy Tate Marshall was united in marriage to Nelle Catherine Turnbull, daughter of Edward and Jennie (Smith) Turnbull, both of whom are still living at Cedarville, and to this union have been born two children. Maxwell Edward, bom on March 10, 1909, and Emma Jean, August 21, 1912. The Turnbulls also are an old family in Greene county, having been represented here for more than a hundred years. Edward Turnbull and his wife have three children, Mrs. Marshall having two brothers, Howard Edward Turnbull, a farmer living in the immediate vicinity of Cedarville, who married Letta Baumgartner and has one child, a daughter, Wanda, and Paul Beveridge Turnbull, who married Miriam Fudge and is now (1918) a member of the National Army, in camp at Camp Sherman, in preparation for service in the war against Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918