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JOHN F. MARX, gardener and dairyman, post office Sewickley, was born May 24, 1834, in Baden, Germany, son of John and Euphrosina (Gemp) Marx, who had nine children, seven of whom attained maturity. The father was a physician, and served in the German army, but, on account of his revolutionary sentiments, in 1848 had to flee to Switzerland. In 1850 he immigrated to America with his family, locating in Allegheny, where he practiced his profession. Later he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he died in 1857, at the age of fifty-two; his widow died in 1881, aged seventy-two. Their son, John F., was educated in his native home, and became a “typo” in the office of the Freiheitsfreund, of Pittsburgh. In 1860 he came to Sewickley, where he engaged in gardening and dairying, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Marx was married here to Miss Catharine Muni, a native of Baden, Germany. She is the mother of eight children: Charles, William, Emma, Eliza, Washington, Mary, Adolph and Sophia. Mr. Marx is a republican, and has filled several township offices, that of auditor for nine years.