History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 922, Vermont Township
Wm. Marshall, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 22; P. O., Vermont;
born in Harrison Co., O., In 1823. His father, of the same name, was a
native of Pa., moved when young to Ohio, followed teaming, many times
going over the mountains to Baltimore; married Miss Sarah Marshall, of
Ohio. Of the four children two are living, John S. and Wm. (Margaret
and Thomas deceased). Wm., jr., was but 13 years old when his father
died (in 1835), and he then accompanied his mother and brother to this
tp. Wm. commenced going to school at the age of 16, in an old-fashioned
log school-house characteristic of the times. In 1851 he married
Charlotte Loomis, daughter of Russell G. L., and they have had 6
children, only 2 of whom are living, - Ross E. and Alice J.
