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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



ley) Marshall, the mother of George Mor- 

 ley Marshall, was descended on her pater- 

 nal side from Abel Morley, who emigraud 

 from England in 1650. On her maternal 

 side she was descended from William 

 Healy, who came with the Pilgrims and set- 

 tled in Roxbury (afterwards Cambridge) 

 Massachusetts. 



George Morley Marshall attended the 

 public schools of his native village and 

 graduated from the Painesville high school 

 in 1877. In 1877-78 he taught school while 

 preparing for college, completing this pre- 

 paration the following year at the Univer- 

 sity preparatory school in Hudson. He then 

 entered the Western Reserve University, 

 receiving in 1883 the degree of Bachelor 

 of Arts from Adelbert College. In the au- 

 tumn of 1883 he entered the medical de- 

 partment of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, from which in 1886 he received the 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine. Taking 

 the competitive examination at St. Joseph's 

 Hospital, he became the first resident phy- 

 sician of that institution. In 1887 and 

 1888 he continued his medical studies at 

 Vienna and Berlin, returning to Philadel- 

 phia to active practice in January, 1889. In 

 this year he was appointed attending phy- 

 sician and laryngologist to St. Joseph's 

 Hospital. Two years later he was also 

 appointed laryngologist to the Philadelphia 

 Hospital. Dr. Marshall is a member of the 

 Philadelphia County Medical Society, tiie 

 American Academy of Medicine, the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, the Philadelphia 

 College of Physicians and other medical 

 organizations. He was elected to the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Society at Western Reserve 

 University. While independent in politics, 

 he has in general voted with the Republi- 

 can party. He married, June 7, 1893, at 

 Elyria, Ohio, Harriet Putnam Elj-, daugh- 

 ter of Heman and Mary (Day) Ely, of Ely- 

 ria, Ohio. Their children are as follows : 

 George Morley, Jr., born in Philadelphia, 

 March 19, 1894, died March 7, 1895; Esth- 

 er Philena, born in Philadelphia, June 8, 

 1895 ; Harriet Ely, born in Solebury, Bucks 

 county, September 7, 1896 ; Margaret Ely, 

 born in Philadelphia, April 24, 1898; Edith 

 Williamson, born in Solebury, August 3, 

 1899, died August 17, 1900; Celia Belden, 

 born in Solebury, January 29, 1902. While 

 residing in Philadelphia Dr. Marshall and 

 his wife attended Calvary Presbyterian 

 church on Locust street, but when in Bucks 

 county they attend with interest the Friends' 

 Meeting at Solebury. 



Harriet Putnam (Ely) Marshall, born in 

 Elyria, Ohio, October 9, 1864, traces her 

 ancestry to Nathaniel Ely, Puritan, born 

 in Tenterden, in the county of Kent, Eng- 

 land, in 1605, and emigrated to America in 

 April, 1634, to escape persecution under 

 Charles I. He settled first in Newtown 

 (now Cambridge) Massachusetts. In June, 

 1636, he went with the Rev. Thomas Plook- 

 er and about one hundred others who made 

 the first settlement of the city of Hartford, 

 Connecticut. In 1649 he was instrumental 



in the first settlement of Norwalk, Connec- 

 ticut. In 1659 he sold his property in Nor- 

 walk and removed to Springheld, Massachu- 

 setts, where the remainder of his life was 

 spent. Springlield has since been the home 

 of the family from generation to genera- 

 tion. Here, as in Norwalk and Hartford^ 

 Nathaniel was called to serve the public 

 shortly after his arrival. He was selectman 

 in Springfield in 1661-66-68-71 and 72,. He 

 died December 25, 1675, and Martha, his- 

 wife, died in Springfield, October 23, 1688. 

 They left two children, a son and a daugh- 

 ter. The son Samuel married Mary, young- 

 est daughter of Robert Day. 



Justin Ely, fifth generation, was born In 

 West Springfield, Massachusetts, August 

 10, 1739, and died there June 26, 1817. He 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1759, rep- 

 resented his town in general court of Mas- 

 sachusetts in 1777, from 1780 to 1785, in- 

 clusive, and from 1790 to 1797, inclusive^ 

 and was otherwise prominent in public af- 

 fairs. During the war of the revolution, 

 he was active in aiding his country, es- 

 pecially in the collection of men who were 

 drafted into the service and providing 

 for the comfort of the same and those who 

 enlisted. He was largely interested in real 

 estate in the states of Massachusetts, Ver- 

 mont, and New York and the district of 

 Maine, and was one of the original pro- 

 prietors of the Connecticut Western Re- 

 serve in Ohio under the Connecticut Land 

 Company. 



Heman Ely, son of Justin Ely, was 

 born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, 

 April 24, 1775, and died in Elyria, Ohio, 

 February 2, 1852. He married Celia, daugh- 

 ter of Colonel Ezekial Polter Belden. Ear- 

 ly in the last century he became interested 

 in the purchase of lands in central and wes- 

 tern New York, and under his direction 

 considerable tracts were surveyed and sold 

 to settlers. Nearly coincident with these 

 enterprises he entered into partnership with 

 his brother Theodore in New York city, 

 and was for ten years engaged in commerce 

 with European countries and the East In- 

 dies, and during this time he made several 

 voyages. He was in Paris, France, from. 

 July, 1809, until April, 1810, a period when 

 history was rapidly made. He saw in Aug- 

 ust, 1809, the grand fete of Napoleon, with 

 Josephine as empress, and in the evening 

 attended a ball at the Hotel de Ville, where 

 a cotillion was danced by a set composed 

 of kings and queens ; the following April 

 (Josephine divorced and dethroned) he 

 witnessed the formal entrance into Paris of 

 the Emperor Napoleon with the Empress 

 Maria Louise of Austria, and the religious 

 ceremony of marriage at the chapel of the 

 Tuilleries. In 1810 he returned to America 

 and the following year visited Ohio, going 

 as far as Cleveland, twenty-five miljc* east 

 of his future home. The war with Eng- 

 land made it inadvisable to open new ter- 

 ritory in Ohio, and it was not until 1816 

 that he visited the land owned by his fath- 

 er, and then known as No. 6, range 17, 



