Orange County Biographies

MARQUIS L. SELLS

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben

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a farmer near Westminster, was born in Wyandot County, Ohio. September 6, 1845. 
His parents, John and Mary (McKissen) Sells , were natives respectively of Ohio 
and Virginia, and had five children, three of whom are still living. John Sells 
was a well-known attorney in Wyandot County for a number of years, and died 
November 19, 1886. Marquis worked on the railroad as a trackman, and 
subsequently attended school at New Hagerstown and Harlem Springs. Then he 
taught school for some ten years in Ohio and Missouri, and in May, 1871, he came 
to California with two brothers and his mother. He first rented land in Santa 
Barbara County and afterward came to what is now Orange County, purchasing a 
fine ranch one mile south of Westminster; where he successfully engaged as 
stock-raiser and general farmer.

 
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, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. page 861