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JOSEPH MARSHALL, physician, Sec. 31; Heyworth; born in Fayette Co., Ky., June 24, 1832. He attended the common school until he was 17 years of age, when he went to St. Louis and entered the St. Louis University, where he attended three years, and from which he graduated in the spring of 1853, from both Medical and Literary Departments. He then returned to Kentucky, and engaged in the practice of medicine, in Fayette Co., until the fall of 1872, when he located in Bloomington, McLean Co., and practiced medicine until March, 1874, when he removed upon his present place, where he has since lived and followed his profession, having a good practice, which is yearly increasing. His marriage with Martha M. Goodwin, was celebrated Sept. 25, 1855; she was born in Fayette Co., Ky., March 9, 1838. They have six children by this union — Ella J., Ida E., Rachel J., Robert, Sallie R., Edmund S. Mr. Marshall was a son of Robert Marshall, who was born in Fayette Co., Ky., Jan. 1, 1800. Has always successfully followed farming, and is now living, in the 80th year of his age, in full possession of all his faculties, and able to attend to some light work. He was married to Elizabeth Evans; she was born in the same county, in 1804, and she is still living, and daily performs her household duties.