Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 956 - 957

CALVIN P. MARSHALL, M. D., the leading physician of Andale, and a popular and prominent citizen of that place, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born April 2, 1834. His parents were John and Sarah (Phillips) Marshall, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was born Oct. 8, 1808, and departed this life May 23, 1885, at his home in Kennett Square, Pa. The mother, born Aug. 6, 1811, died when a young woman, on the 23d of July, 1842.

            John Marshall was an extensive iron manufacturer of Newcastle County, Del., occupying a leading position in the trade during his life. The parental household included four children, of whom Calvin was the second in order of birth. His sister Mary, the oldest child, became the wife of Edwin Brosius, a dry-goods merchant of Kennett Square, Pa., and is now deceased; Lydia married Edward Mendinhall, a prosperous merchant of Wilmington, Del.; Caleb, previous to the late war, was the owner of a plantation in Alabama, and became a Colonel in the Confederate army, since which time all track of him has been lost, and it is supposed that he fell a victim to the Rebellion.

            Dr. Marshall spent his early years at his village home in Pennsylvania, and when thirteen years old was placed in a boarding-school in Chester County, where he remained three years. He was then sent to Philadelphia, and was engaged as clerk in his uncle's drug-store two years, then as a student under Prof. George B. Wood, in the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied five years and attended both summer and winter lectures, being in the intervals still under tuition from the preceptor. Although sufficiently advanced for graduation at the age of twenty-one years, his father desired him to wait until a year later before commencing practice. His first office was in Lancaster County, where he continued until the spring of 1860, and the following year entered the army as Assistant Surgeon. A few months later he was promoted to full Regimental Surgeon, and in the spring of 1862 was promoted to Brigade Surgeon of the Army of the Potomac, serving in that capacity until taking charge of the Brigade Hospital at Alexandria. In the spring of 1865 he sent in his resignation, which was accepted, and returning to Chester County, Pa., he resumed his old practice, and continued there until 1874.

            Our subject now took up his residence in Chester County, Pa., where he continued four years, then disposed of his interests in the Keystone State, and crossed the Mississippi into Pawnee County, Kan., where he followed his profession until 1882, in which year he came to Sedgwick County, and engaged in farming. This change of vocation was for the purpose of reducing his flesh, which threatened to seriously impare his health, if not to produce fatal results. He followed agriculture continuously until the spring of 1885, when the death of his father necessitated his return to Pennsylvania for the purpose of settling up the estate.

            While at his old home Dr. Marshall availed himself of the opportunity to attend another course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and upon his return to this State located in Valley Center. A few months later he was recalled to Pennsylvania, and upon his return West, in the spring of 1886, took up his residence in Andale, where he is now building up a profitable and lucrative patronage.

            Dr. Marshall has been twice married, his first wife having been Miss Emelie Mather, to whom he was wedded Oct. 8, 1856, and who died at their home in Lancaster County, Pa., Jan. 24, 1874. Of this union there were born four children: Caroline J., born April 13, 1858, is the wife of Edward Crissmore, a farmer and stock-raiser of Sedgwick County, Kan.; Comly J., born Nov. 18, 1860, is a druggist of Kansas City; Mariana was born Jan. 25, 1867, and is the wife of William Wetterhold, a farmer and stock-raiser of Sedgwick County, Kan.; John was born April 13, 1869, and remains at home with his father.

            The present wife of our subject, to whom he was married Sept. 15, 1876, was formerly Miss Phoebe A. Wilkinson, who was born Aug. 6, 1846, and is the second of five children, the offspring of Lewis P. and Sarah (Chandler) Wilkinson. The father departed this life at his home in Chester County, Pa., in 1887. The mother makes her home in Chester County. Mrs. Marshall is well educated, having attended the Normal School at Millersville, in Pennsylvania, and is a member in good standing of the Christian Church. The Doctor is a Democrat, politically, and socially, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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