History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . as among the first to answer the call. He wentto the front as a member of Companv C, Fifteenth Illinois Volun-teer Infantry, and at the battle of Shiloh received a wound, fromthe eflects of which he has since suffered to the extent that at timeshe has been partially incapacitated for active work. His w-ife living. Her father. Doctor Scott, was one of the prominentpioneer
History of Cerro Gordo County, IowaFrom materials in the public archives, the Iowa Historical Society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews; also containing sketches of representative citizens . as among the first to answer the call. He wentto the front as a member of Companv C, Fifteenth Illinois Volun-teer Infantry, and at the battle of Shiloh received a wound, fromthe eflects of which he has since suffered to the extent that at timeshe has been partially incapacitated for active work. His w-ife living. Her father. Doctor Scott, was one of the prominentpioneer physicians of Illinois, having moved there from Pennsyl-vania. During the Civil war he was a surgeon in the army. Hedied at Rockford. Illinois, at the ase of eighty-four years. DoctorMarston is one of a of six sons and one daughter. Fromtheir mother, a woman of imusual refinement and intellectualattainments, they received early training that inclined themtoward higher education, and they all worked their way throughschool. Of them we record that Anson I\Iarston, a graduate ofCornell University. New York, is now dean of the AgriculturalCollege, Ames, Iowa ; Amos W., also a graduate of Cornell, has been. HISTORY OF CERRO GORDO COUNTY 683 assistant United States District Attorney for several years, andis now engaged in the practice of law in Chicago; Walter S., agraduate of the Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, is draftsman atChicago for the C. & N. W. Railroad Terminal Company; GeorgeE., has charge of the farming operations at the old homestead inIllinois; Robert S., is with his parents; and the daughter, Smith, a widow, is a music teacher at Rockford, Illinois. Dr. Marston passed his boyhood days on his fathers farm inWinnebago county, pursued a high school course at Rockford, andprepared himself for his profession at Rush Miedical College,where he graduated in the spring of 1893. Immediately after hisgraduation he came to Mason City, Iowa, where, as already st
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