Marlon C. McKenzie was born in Essex county, New York, in 1823, and came first to Whiteside county in 1841, and remained three years, when he returned East. In 1865 he again came to Whiteside, and purchased his present farm in Hume township, upon which he has since continued to live. In 1849 he married Miss Marian M. Haven. Their only child is May, now fourteen age. Mr. McKenzie has served for two terms as member of the Board of Supervisors, and has also been Assessor for the township. He has two hundred -forty acres of land on sections 28 and 32. Besides carrying on his largely engaged as a stock raiser and dealer.
Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County Page 241
