San Diego County Biographies
 
LIONEL W. MARSHALL

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a descendant of English-American parentage, was born at Marietta, Iowa, January 
10, 1857. His early life was passed in Iowa, where he received a common-school 
education. His father being a cabinet-maker, the inclination of the son 
naturally turned in the same direction and under the careful guidance of the 
father, with
whom he worked twelve years, he now stands at the head of his profession. In 
1886, he came to San Diego and entered the art business, also building and 
selling wood mantels of various designs. In 1887, he went out of the art 
business and assumed the management of the San Diego Mantel Factory at 916 
Second street, where he is carrying on a large and successful business, 
employing five men and yet unable to keep up with the orders. The mantels are 
constructed from all kinds of hard and soft woods, and combined with neat 
designs in wood carving create a thing of beauty and a joy forever. This is the 
first and only mantel manufactory in San Diego.
        Mr. Marshall was married at Dan Diego, December 12, 1887, to Miss Lizzie 
Monkes, a native of California. They have one child.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  144


     Another Iowan who is succeeding in Tulare county, Cal., is Lionel W. 
Marshall, of Tulare. Mr. Marshall was born in Marshall county, in the central 
part of Iowa, January 10, 1857. When he was fifteen years old he was taken to 
Yankton, S. Dak., by his parents, who maintained the family home there two 
years, then, in 1874, came to California, locating in Los Angeles. The elder 
Marshall was a builder, and the son gained a practical knowledge of the 
carpenter�s trade under his instruction. He, in an earlier day, had acquired 
similar experience in England, where he first saw the light of day. From Los 
Angeles father and son went to Pomona, where they erected the first building in 
the town, which, as it happened, was a hotel. They were kept busy there, 
contracting and building, three years, then went back to Los Angeles. Soon 
Lionel W. Marshall built homes in Tulare for Thomas H. Thompson and Banker 
Lathrop. He remained in the town during the period of 1907-08 and moved to 
Lindsay, where he built himself a fine home and fine residences for James 
Reynolds, Edward Halleck, John Walker and Messrs. Metcalf and Evans. He also 
remodeled the building of the National Bank of Lindsay, and while he was 
operating there went over to Visalia and built residences for A. W. Wing and 
James Richardson. He took up his residence in Tulare in September, 1911, and 
soon afterward erected the H. A. Charters home in that city. Even the most 
fleeting inspection of the structures he has erected conveys an idea of their 
artistic design, workmanlike construction and solid permanency. They are 
ornaments to the towns in which they stand and the best possible advertisement 
of his skill and ability. Some of his recent architectural achievements are in 
evidence and he has in hand contracts for execution in the near future which 
cannot but add to his laurels.
 
     In 1906 Mr. Marshall married Miss Elizabeth Parker, a daughter of Andrew 
Parker, a pioneer at Monrovia. He is a member of the Visalia body of the order 
of Moose. In the affairs of the community he is interested and helpful. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 Pp 390, 391

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn