William S. Marshall

        W. S. Marshall, of the law firm of Wheeler & Marshall, is a native of Richland County, Ohio, and is a son of John S. and Sarah (Stewart) Marshall who were natives of Pennsylvania and New York respectively, and whose respective deaths occurred in 1867 and in 1884. Until the year 1853 he remained in the State of his birth, attending the public schools, then entered Jefferson College of Pennsylvania, which graduated him in the year 1856. With the tide of immigration he drifted westward, and until the breaking out of the war made his home in Iowa. He volunteered his services for the preservation of the Union, and served until 1865, when he was honorably mustered out of the service with the rank of major in Gen. McPherson's corps. At the beginning of the war he held the commission of second lieutenant in the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. While in the South he became convinced of the healthfulness and future prosperity of Chattanooga, and at the close of the war moved to this city and embarked in the practice of his profession. In 1867 he became one of the firm of Stanley, Wheeler & Marshall, and later that of Wheeler & Marshall. This firm is one of the oldest, best known and most successful legal firms in Hamilton County. Mr. Marshall is a director of the Brush Electric Light Company, the Mount Lookout Railway Company and is a member of the F. & A. M. and of the G. A. R. He has been twice married: first to Miss L. C. Bryant, a native of Iowa, in 1868, who died the same year. Kate S. Montague, a native of Ohio, became his wife in 1873 and by her he is the father of one son, Stanhope Stewart.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887
1880 US Census, 1^st Ward, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN; Page 141.