T. Carl Marshall
The Hon. T. Carl Marshall, judge of probate for Greene county, former clerk of the court of common pleas and previous to that term of service and for some years deputy clerk of that court and before that time superintendent of the Cedarville township schools, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township, September 12, 1881, son of Willis and Emma (Tate) Marshall, both of whom also were born in this county.
The Marshalls are one of the oldest families in Greene county, the first of that name to settle here having been John Marshall, who was born in the vicinity of what is now the city of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1784. and who in 1803, the year in which Greene county became a civic unit, came up here into the valley of the Little Miami and took up a considerable tract of land in Sugarcreek township, where he established his home. This pioneer John Marshall was one of the early associate judges of Greene county. He and his wife were the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, namely: Nancy, who married James N. McConnell: Sarah, who married John Brock; Hester, who married Captain Kepler; Betsy, who married William Morgan; James, who became a farmer in Sugarcreek township, and Jesse, who was Judge Marshall's grandfather.
Jesse Marshall and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom four sons and two daughters are still living. Willis Marshall, the eldest of these sons, grew up on the home farm and after his father's death was the mainstay of the family, his mother continuing to make her home on the old home place until her death. He is now living on a farm in the New Burlington neighborhood in the neighboring county of Clinton. Willis Marshall has been twice married, his first wife, Emma Tate, having died in the fall of 1884, after which he married Laura Holland, of Spring Valley. Willis Marshall has two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Leroy T. Marshall, who is practicing law at Xenia and who formerly served as clerk of courts of Greene county. Leroy T. Marshall was graduated from the Bellbrook high school in the same year in which his brother, the Judge, was graduated there and later was graduated from Cedarville College, after which for two years he served as principal of the Cedarville schools. In 1908, as the nominee of the Republican party, he was elected county clerk and in 1910 was re-elected, thus serving two terms. In the meantime he had been giving attention to the study of law and in 1912 was admitted to the bar and since his retirement from the clerk's office has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Xenia. He for six years served as chairman of the executive committee of the Republican organization in this county. He married Nellie Turnbull and has two children, Maxwell and Emma Jean.
J. Carl Marshall's early schooling was received in the district schools in the vicinity of his boyhood home in Sugarcreek township and he supplemented this by a course in the Bellbrook high school, from which he presently was graduated. He then entered Cedarville College and was graduated from that institution in 1907. During the following winter he was employed as a teacher in the Clifton high school and during the next winter, 1908-09, was employed as superintendent of the Cedarville township high school. In August, 1909, he was appointed deputy clerk of the common pleas court and for four years held that position, or until his election, in 1912, to the office of clerk of the common pleas court. In 1914 he was reelected to that ofifice and would have served in the same until 1917, but in the meantime, in the fall of 1916, was elected judge of probate for Greene county for a term of four years and resigned his position as county clerk to enter upon his new duties on the bench and has been thus engaged since February 9, 1917. Judge Marshall is a Republican.
On October 10, 1910, Judge J. Carl Marshall was united in marriage to Fern C. Ervin, who was born and reared in Cedarville, daughter of David S. and Belle (Murdock) Ervin, both of whom are still living in Cedarville, where the former is engaged in the grain business and also operates the lime kilns there, and to this union two children have been born, Frances Emma, born on July 22, 1911, and Carl Ervin, September 16, 1915. Judge and Mrs. Marshall are members of the United Presbyterian church at Xenia and the Judge was elected a member of the session of the same in 1916. In that same year Judge Marshall also was elected alumnus trustee of Cedarville College.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918