San Joaquin County Biographies
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JOSEPH C. MARSHALL
A vineyardist of exceptional experience, the outcome of varied and successful enterprise, is Joseph C. Marshall, better known as Charles Marshall, and in business matters usually signified as J.C. Marshall, a native of Washington, Pa., and now residing on his ranch at the corner of Cherokee Lane and the Galt-Elliott road, some seven miles north of Lodi. He was born on March 8, 1878, a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Clark) Marshall, natives of Somersetshire, England, who reached America on the sailing vessel “Underwriter,” only after surviving three shipwrecks. Frederick Marshall was a coal miner in England. He was an orphan, who worked his way up, step by step, until he became a coal operator in the Pennsylvania mines. In early life he belonged to that class of heroic workmen, laboring under the most trying of conditions, to whom society owes so much for its advancement as well as for its very preservation. He became well-to-do and operated his coal mine on Chartiers Creek, in Pennsylvania, but when the Johnstown flood came, it flooded his mine and ruined him financially. Ten children, five boys and five girls, made up the family of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall; and owing to the large number to be fed and clothed, J.C. Marshall early did what he could to aid his parents, and from his eighteenth year made his way alone in the world.
He first became an iron-moulder in Pennsylvania, and later removed to Ohio; then he went to the Mannington, W.Va., oil fields and became a driller. In 1908 he reached California, and for the next ten years he was at Maricopa in the West Side oil fields of Kern County. He then went to Desdemona, Texas, and later went to Oklahoma and was in the Duke field soon after going to Texas, where he worked in the Desdemona oil fields as a driller.
At Washington, Pa., on April 17, 1900, Mr. Marshall was married to Miss Ellen McClain, a native of that same district, the daughter of Samuel and Clara McClain, and of Scotch-Irish descent. One of a family of six children, she was reared at Washington, Pa., and there attended the grammar school, the high school, and business college. From Duke, Okla., Mr. Marshall returned to California, on December 1, 1920. He had a ranch of twenty acres on the Cherokee Lane road, about six miles north of Lodi; and having sold that about a year ago, he purchased the old John Quiggle ranch at the corner of the Galt-Elliott road and Cherokee Lane. This ranch has a vineyard of eleven acres on it, and is amply irrigated from an independent pumping plant owned by Mr. Marshall, who likewise maintains a small dairy there.
Two children were born in the Marshall household. Elizabeth has become Mrs. Harry Dart, of Sacramento; and Grace is the wife of Earl Dart, of Sacramento, both girls having married brothers. Elizabeth has one son, Marshall Dart, born November 18, 1921. Mr. Marshall is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 267, of Galt.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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