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Phillip Marshall

June 16, 2010

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Born:July 1846 Ohio
Married: Caroline Graham
Children: Inis 1866, Nelson 1868, Mary 1872, William 1879, Evlyn 1881, Seba 1885
Occupation: Farmer, MT Morris

Phillip Marshall

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Michigan School for the Deaf

STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Of the state educational institutions, a school was early located at Flint for the deaf, dumb and blind. To Hon. E. h. Thomson belongs the honor of introducing, in 1848, the act which resulted in establishing this splendid school. The first board of trustees comprised the following: Elon Farnsworth, of Wayne; Gen. Charles C. Hascall, of Genesee; Charles H. Taylor, of Kent; Charles F. Stewart, of Kalamazoo, and John P. Cook, of Hillsdale. The board decided upon Flint as the most eligible location. Twenty acres of found were donated by Col. T. B. W. Stockton to the trustees for a site and three thousand dollars was subscribed by the citizens. Charles H. Palmer was, in December, 1850, appointed as principal. In 1857 the Legislature amended the act of 1848 to that the institution should be entirely independent of the Kalamazoo insane asylum, which had been up to that time in charge of the same board. Under the amended act the first board for the Flint institution...

Kearsley High School 1949 Seventh grade

Grand Blanc Township 1873

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