MARR-John C. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

JOHN C. MARR, farmer Attica, was born in Attica December 25, 1829. His father was a native of Ireland, and came to Fountain county in 1837 and settled in Attica. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Sholl, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, April 3 1810, and is living with her son in the enjoyment of a vigorous old age, but not wholly free from that most painful of diseases which too rarely fails to afflict old age rheumatism. Mr. Marr, received the log school-house education of those days. He has always been a tiller of the soil, but for the last two years he has been in the stock-shipping business. He owns eighty acres of land in Webster county Iowa. He has been a Mason about ten years and is a republican. He has been real estate appraiser of Shawnee township for four successive terms, beginning with 1872. He was first appointed by the board of commissioners of Fountain county and in 1874 and in 1876 was reelected. He was United States supervisor of election for Shawnee township in 1880. He was married December 26 1861 to Hester A. Keefer, who died September 6 1876, leaving two children; John Edward b. January 24 1863, and Mary B. b. September 4 1865. His second marriage was with Miss Ella Simpson, who was born May 18 1855. She has had two children; Gertrude Kate b. October 7 1878, and George Howard b. November 17 1879.

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