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Marshall County was created on February 7, 1835 and was formed from St. Joseph County and Unorganized Land. The County was named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. At the time of its formation, the Pottawatomie Indians occupied the region around Twin Lakes, but two years later General John Tipton removed them. The County Seat is Plymouth. It was first settled in 1834 by Grove Pomroy, M. Coe and U. Metcalf. By 1849 it contained good county buildings, seven stores and groceries, one Presbyterian Church, 51 houses and 300 inhabitants. See also County History for more historical details. Counties adjacent to Marshall County are St. Joseph County (north), Elkhart County (northeast), Kosciusko County (east), Fulton County (south), Pulaski County (southwest), Starke County (west). Marshall County is divided into 10 Civil Townships as follows: Bourbon, Center, German, Green, North, Polk, Tippecanoe, Union, Walnut and West Cities, Towns and Communities include Argos, Ayr, Bourbon, Bremen, Burr Oak, Culver, Donaldson, Glovertown, Harris, Hibbard, Inwood, Lapaz, Linkville, Plymouth, Rutland, Teegarden, Tippecanoe, Twin Lakes, Tyner, and Walnut.
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NOTE: The date listed for each category of record is the earliest record known to exist in that county. It does not indicate that there are numerous records for that year and certainly does not indicate that all such events that year were actually registered. See also the Marshall County Courthouse History Marshall County Clerk has Marriage Records from 1836 , Probate Records from 1834 and Court Records from 1834 and is located at 211 West Madison, # 101,
Plymouth, IN 46563;
(574)936-8922,
(574)936-8933 Fax, [EMAIL] Marshall County Recorder has Land Records from 1834 and is located at 112 West Jefferson Street,
Plymouth, IN 46563;
(574) 935-8513,
(574) 935-5099 Fax, [EMAIL] .
Marshall County Health Department has Birth / Death Records from 1882 and is located at 112 W. Jefferson St., Room 103, Plymouth, IN 46563; (574) 935-8565 Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Court Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Court Records by clicking the link below:
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Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Vital Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Vital Records by clicking the link below:
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Countywide Records: Federal Population Schedules that exist for Marshall County, Indiana are 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your Family Tree in Marshall County, Indiana are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. There are free downloadable and printable Census forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms and U.K. Census Extraction Forms. See Also Statewide Records that exist for Indiana Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Census Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Census Records by clicking the link below:
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Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Ohio and other states. You can view rotating animated maps for Indiana showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Maps. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Maps by clicking the link below: |
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The uses and value of military records in genealogical research for ancestors who were veterans are obvious, but military records can also be important to re-searchers whose direct ancestors were not soldiers in any war. The fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and other close relatives of an ancestor may have served in a war, and their service or pension records could contain information that will assist in further identifying the family of primary interest. Due to the amount of genealogical information contained in some military pension files, they should never be overlooked during the research process. Those records not containing specific genealogical information are of historic value and should be included in any overall research design. Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Military Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Military Records by clicking the link below:
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Records of county taxes were kept as early at 1842, although most were discarded. Remaining ones would be at the county courthouse. National Archives-Great Lakes Region has records of the Internal Revenue Service for Indiana for 1867 to 1873. These are tax assessment records, arranged by district and then chronologically. Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Tax Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Tax Records by clicking the link below: |
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The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be more generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over. Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Genealogical Addresses. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Genealogical Addresses by clicking the link below:
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There are many churches and cemeteries in Marshall County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Marshall County Tombstone Transcription Project. Baptist records are found at Franklin College (in Franklin); Methodist at DePauw University (in Greencastle); Mennonite at Goshen College (in Goshen); Presbyterian at Hanover College (in Hanover); Disciples of Christ at their historical society in Nashville, Tennessee; and French Catholic at Vincennes University in the Byron R. Lewis Collection. There are also Catholic church histories and records at the Catholic Archives, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Quaker records are at Earlham College (at Richmond). The commissioner's office of each Indiana county may have burial records for soldiers, sailors, and marines. If available, the records should include name, age, date of enlistment, discharge date, and death date. Records begin about 1862. The Indiana State Library holds records of inscriptions from some Indiana cemeteries. The "Indiana Cemetery Locator File," compiled by the Genealogy Division, is an alphabetical listing of cemeteries, indicating the location in the state and the designation in the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library where inscriptions may be found. Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Cemetery & Church Records. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Cemetery & Church Records by clicking the link below:
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When view family trees online or not, be sure to only take the info at face value and always follow up with your own sources or verify the ones they provide. Below is a list of online resources for Marshall County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information. Email us with websites containing Marshall County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information by clicking the link below:
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1849 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Gazetteer," published by E. Chamberlain Marshall County, named in honor of Chief Justice Marshall, was organized in 1836. It is bounded north by St. Joseph, east by Elkhart, and Kosciusko, south by Fulton and west by Starke, which is as yet unorganized, and is attached to Marshall for judicial and election purposes. Marshall County is twenty-one miles square, and contains 441 square miles. The civil townships are Center, Union, Green, Tippecanoe, Polk, German, Bourbon and North. The population in 1840 was 1,651, at this time [1849] it amounts to about 5,000. The surface of the country is generally level, though there are places in which it may be called rolling. About one-half the county is timbered land, the other half is oak openings, or barrens, interspersed with wet and dry prairies, which are mostly of small size, and in their vicinity are several small, beautiful lakes. The soil, in the timbered land, is generally of the richest description, as it is also in the prairies. In the barrens it is thinner, yet more than half of them are well adapted to wheat, oats and vines, and when farmed for some years, they seem to improve in quality. Seven hundred scholars are reported as attending the common schools. There are in the county three gristmills, eight sawmills, one forge, which turns out two tons of iron a week, eight stores, two groceries, five lawyers, six physicians, six preachers, and rather a small proportion of mechanics. Inexhaustible beds of iron ore, and of a good quality, are found, and there is much water power, which may yet be improved to advantage. The large amount of non-resident lands has hitherto retarded improvements, but Marshall will, at no distant day, become one of the best counties in the State. The taxable land amounts to 181,154 acres; about 70,000 acres still belong to the United States. 1938 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Review," published by the State Legislature Marshall County is located in the north central section of Indiana and is part of the lake region. Most of the land is glacial drift, heavily forested at one time. With the clearing of the land, the soil was found to be admirable for the growing of corn, wheat, and oats. The county is traversed from northeast to southwest by Yellow River. The Tippecanoe River cuts across the southeastern corner. Marshall County has an area of 441 square miles, divided into ten townships. The incorporated cities are Plymouth, 5,290, and Bremen, 2,105; towns: Culver, 1,502; Argos, 1,211; Bourbon, 1,193, and LaPaz, 375. The population of the county in 1890 was 23,818; 1900, 25,119; 1910, 24,175; 1920, 23,744; 1930, 25,077. Plymouth is located twenty-two miles south of South Bend and is served by two railroads. In has a number of industries, including saw and planing mills, cannery, the manufacture of novelties, grinding materials, machinery, gas engines, boxes, barrels, automobile accessories, and baskets. The city is one of the resort section centers. Twin Lakes and Lake Galbraith are nearest. At this latter is St. Amelia's Retreat, a home for aged Roman Catholic Nuns, and school for novices. At Twin Lakes is an interesting memorial, a monument to Chief Menomenee of the Pottawatomie Tribe. In Plymouth's Oak Hill Cemetery is a stone shaft in memory of the Gold Star heroes of the World War. Culver Military Accademy was founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, a businessman of St. Louis, Missouri, who had come to realize the lack of system, order and immediate obedience on the part of the young men whom he took into his employment. Culver Military Academy opened n a frame building with twenty-five pupils. This building was destroyed by fire, but was replaced with a fireproof brick barracks, which was opened in 1895. The following year, after the military academy at Mexico, Missouri, had burned, Mr. Culver succeeded in effecting a combination of the Indiana and Missouri schools under the management of Colonel A. F. Fleet, the founder of the Missouri Academy. Under his superintendence, the Culver Military Academy acquired an enrolment of nearly seven hundred cadets and achieved high rank as a military school. Colonel Fleet retired as superintendent in 1910, and was succeeded by Major Leigh R. Gignilliat, who had been commandant of cadets at Culver from 1896. Mr. Culver, the founder, dying in 1897, members of his family since that time have greatly strengthened the institution and beautified the grounds. Five barracks, for cadets, a gymnasium, riding hall, hospital, administration building, class rooms and laboratories, and magnificent mess hall and kitchen, which Governor Marshall helped to dedicate in 1911, constitute the material equipment of the school. The academy is a member of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. The entire routine of the school is ordered closely on the lines followed at West Point. One of the favorite features of the work at Culver has been the cavalry drill and the Culver Black Horse Troop has made a reputation for horsemanship that has traveled beyond the United States. After President McKinley was inaugurated in 1896, the black horses used by his Ohio escort were sold to the Culver Academy and have always been replaced from time to time (many of the horses being lost on October 24, 1915 in a disastrous fire which destroyed the barns). During the inauguration of President Wilson and Vice-President Marshall, the Culver Black Horse Troop acted as personal escort to Mr. Marshall. The Culver Summer Naval School was established in 1902, with a session of eight weeks in which naval drills supplant the infantry drills of the winter school. The United States Navy Department supplies ten and twelve-oar cutters for the use of the school. The instructions are under an Annapolis graduate and an act of the Legislature has also authorized the mustering in each summer of the cadets in the First Battalion of the Indiana Naval Militia. In 1912, a school of woodcraft was added to the Culver program with Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America and Chief Scout Commissioner, in charge of this department. The Culver Military Academy is located on the north shore of Maxinkuckee, overlooking Aubbenaubbee Bay. Marshall County had twenty-seven manufacturing establishments according to figures of the 1935 federal census. These concerns employed 499 wage earners on payrolls totaling, $349,975. The value of the county's manufactured products was $2,780,811. There were 2,808 farms in the county, with an average of 96.3 acres each. The total value of Marshall County farms was $15,454,533. A total of 77,438 head of livestock was reported. Total county tax valuation for 1936 was $1,535,855. ? |
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