BIOGRAPHIES
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Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893
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MARSHALL B. ISHAM, a
venerable citizen and a prominent farmer of Madison township, Lake
County, Ohio, was born here Aug. 29, 1822. His father, Ezra
Isham, a native of New York, came to Ohio in 1812, when a young man
of eighteen years, making the journey across the country in a wagon.
Upon his arrival in Lake county, he bought the farm on which his son now
resides. The red man has not yet disappeared from this part of
Ohio, and in the forest were plenty of deer, bears, wolves and wildcats.
Here he married Miss Laura Brooks, a native of Vermont and a
daughter of David Brooks. The Brooks family
emigrated from the Green Mountain State of Ohio in 1812, coming by
wagon, and locating on the South Ridge about one mile north of Mr.
Isham's home. Mr. Brooks died here at the age of
eighty-two years. After his marriage Mr. Isham built his
cabin home, took his bride to it, and there they began life in true
pioneer style. They had two children, Marshall B. and
Mrs. Matilda Palmer. Mrs. Isham died at the age of fifty-six,
her husband having passed away some years before.
Marshall B. was only ten years old at the time
his father died, and, he being the only son and older child, upon him
devolved much responsibility. His education was received in the
primitive log schoolhouses of the period, and at the age of fourteen he
did a man's work day after day. He cultivated the land his father
cleared, and as he grew older brought it up to a higher state of
development, and also made additional purchases. He is now the
owner of 120 acres, all improved land, devoted to general farming and
stock-raising. Mr. Isham built his present residence in
1887, having had a fine home burned down just before he erected this
one.
He married, in 1847, to Mary E. Weed, a native
of Leroy township, this county, and a daughter of Silas Weed, one
of the pioneer settlers of Leroy township, whither he came from
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Isham have five children:
Ezra, Charles, Willard, Alice and Mary.
He and his wife are members of the Congregational
Church, and in politics he is a Republican. He has served as
Assessor of Madison township.
†Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio embracing the Counties of
Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. -
1893 - Page 1021 |
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