Santa Clara County
Biographies
ALLEN CULVER MARSHALL
Representative of the type of citizen who has given to Santa Clara county the upbuilding force which has brought about her prestige in this section of the state, Allen Culver Marshall is missed among the old associations with which he had been connected for so many years. He was born May 25, 1820 in Greene county, N.Y., a son of Totten Marshall, also a native of that state and a farmer by occupation. He made his home in Albany county, where he died at the ripe age of ninety-one years.
The youngest but one of the family of children born to his parents, Allen Culver Marshall was reared in Albany county, N.Y., attending the public schools in pursuit of an education, while he also found profitable employment and training upon the paternal farm. August 6, 1864, he married Esther P. Stanton in South Westerlo, Albany county, where her parents on both sides were influential people. Mrs. Marshall's grandfather, Reuben Stanton, of English descent, a native of Dutchess County, N.Y., being a Baptist minister, his son, David Stanton, became a member of that church at the age of sixteen years and continued faithful up to the time of his death. His wife, formerly Pauline Prosser, was a native of Albany county, where her father, Benjamin Prosser, of Dutchess county, spent his last days. She died at the age of twenty-nine years, leaving a family of four sons and one daughter. After his marriage Mr. Marshall engaged independently in farming operations in New York state until 1868, in which year he came by steamer to California, via Panama, and located in San Jose, where he farmed for a year. The year following he purchased the property upon which he made his home the remainder of his life. This farm consisted of three hundred acres at the time of purchase, located on the Mount Hamilton road, and for many years thereafter was devoted to general farming operations and stock-raising, being exceptionally well located for the latter purpose, as he had two good springs on the place. Mr. Marshall made many improvements, one of which was the setting out of a twelve-acre orchard of apricots, peaches and prunes, of the last named fruit raising the largest and finest in the country. As time passed on Mr. Marshall disposed of a part of his property, retaining only about one hundred and thirty acres of fine orchard land. His death occurred September 27, 1900. Since her husband's death Mrs. Marshall has continued to make her home upon the farm, looking after her interests in a very capable and business-like manner. She is a woman of culture and refinement, and possesses an amiability of disposition which has won her many friends. In his political preference Mr. Marshall was Republican in early life and a strong advocate of temperance, and ever an earnest and enterprising citizen, intent on making the interests of his adopted state lie parallel with those of his own personal efforts.
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3-18-15 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 449-450. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2015 Marilyn R. Pankey.