MARSHALL 



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MARS HILL 



twenty-one he was admitted to the bar and 

 began the practice of law in Columbia City, Ind. 

 In 1909 the people of Indiana elected him gov- 

 ernor of the state ; 

 in 1912 and again 

 in 1916 he was 

 elected Vice- 

 President of the 

 United States. As 

 a lawyer he was 

 known for his 

 persuasive e 1 o- 

 quence, and as a 

 governor for his 

 executive ability 

 and qualities of 



leadership. It was 

 h i s progressive 

 and 



THOMAS RILEY 

 MARSHALL 



The fifth man who suc- 

 efficient ad- ceeded himself as Vice-Presi- 



1-1 dent. The others were John 

 ministration while Adams< Clinton, Tompkins 

 governor of Indi- and Calhoun. 

 ana that brought him into national prominence 

 and led to his nomination as Vice-President. 



MARSHALL, TEX., the county seat of Harri- 

 son County, situated in the northeastern corner 

 of the state, near the eastern border line. 

 Shreveport, La., is forty miles east, and Texar- 

 kana is sixty-seven miles north. Transporta- 

 tion is provided by the Texas Pacific and the 

 Marshall & East Texas railroads. The city was 

 founded in 1840, was incorporated in 1843 and 

 was chartered as a city in 1848. Since 1909 the 

 government has bee i administered on the com- 

 mission plan. In 1910 the population was 11,- 

 452; in 1916 it was 13,712 (Federal estimate). 

 The area of the city is nine square miles. 



Formerly cotton was the chief product of this 

 section of the state, but within recent years 

 much attention has been paid to truck-farming 

 and to the growing of fruit, especially peaches ; 

 the city is the market for these products and 

 for the abundant yield of the pine and oak 

 forests of the vicinity. Stock raising is also 

 a source of revenue for the city. The largest 

 industrial plants are the car and machine shops 

 of the railroads serving the city ; in these about 

 900 men are employed. Various other estab- 

 lishments include a large cotton compress, a 

 cottonseed-oil mill and a pottery plant. Mar- 

 shall has a fine courthouse and a city hall, and 

 owns and operates its waterworks. Besides the 

 public schools it has Wiley University (Meth- 

 odist Episcopal), Bishop College (Baptist) for 

 colored students, and a Carnegie Library. 



MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA, the county seat 

 of Marshall County* and a shipping point of 

 230 



importance in its territory. It is situated a 

 little northeast of the geographical center of 

 the state, one-half mile south of the Iowa 

 River, fifty-nine miles west of Cedar Rapids 

 and sixty miles northeast of Des Moines. The 

 Minneapolis & Saint Louis, the Chicago & 

 North Western and the Chicago & Great West- 

 ern railways serve the city. Marshalltown was 

 settled in 1851, was incorporated as a town in 

 1865 and received its charter as a city of the 

 second class in 1868. It was named in honor 

 of John Marshall, former Chief Justice of the 

 United States. In 1911 the commission form of 

 government was adopted. According to the 

 Federal census the population, almost entirely 

 American, increased from 13,374 in 1910 to 

 14,360 (estimate) in 1916; the state census of 

 1915 reported 16,065. The area is seven square 

 miles. 



Marshalltown is located in a rich agricultural 

 and stock-raising section, and it ships large 

 quantities of wheat and other grain; hogs and 

 cattle are raised in the district and the city has 

 extensive meat-packing establishments. There 

 are also flour mills, grain elevators, canning and 

 bottling works, carriage factories and a large 

 glucose factory. About 1,400 people are en- 

 gaged in over sixty industrial plants, which have 

 an annual output of over $3,500,000. The ma- 

 chine shops of the Minneapolis & Saint Louis 

 Railway are located here. Notable buildings are 

 an $85,000 Federal building, erected in 1908, a 

 $100,000 Y. M. C. A. building, a $110,000 Ma- 

 sonic Temple, a fine courthouse and the build- 

 ings of the Iowa Soldiers' Home, which cover 

 about 160 acres. Besides its public school sys- 

 tem, the city has Saint Mary's Institute and 

 ' a Carnegie Library. Riverview Park (fifty 

 acres) provides recreation for the people. 



MARSH HAWK, or HAR'RIER, a migratory 

 hawk of the north temperate zone. The male 

 is nearly two feet in length, with dull blue-gray 

 feathers ; the females and the young are dark 

 brown. The marsh hawk derives its name from 

 its habit of haunting wet meadows and marshes, 

 and of building its nest on swampy ground ; it 

 is sometimes called harrier because of its per- 

 sistence in hunting its food. It is a long-winged 

 bird, and capable of high, rapid flight, but usu- 

 ally skims along a few feetxabove a meadow 

 watching for its prey mice and frogs which 

 it can distinguish even in the twilight. The 

 nest, a foot or more in diameter, contains four 

 to six bluish-white eggs. See HAWK. 



MARS, mahrz, HILL, a rocky hill in ancient 

 Athens, lying west of the Acropolis, On, the 



