Our subject was born in Woodhouse Township, Norfolk County, Canada West, April 9, 1832 and is the son of Solomon and Rhoda Crain Marr, the latter of whom became the mother of 3 children and died when a young woman in her native Canada. Solomon Marr was subsequently married a second time and became the father of 6 more children. Sevven of his family are living. Issac D, Helen(Mrs. Shedd), Mary(Mrs. Ferry), William F, John N, Hane Keene and Charles D. These with the exception of our subject are the children of the second wife. The two full brothers of Mr. Marr died when young. Young Marr was reared and educated in his native country, attending school in a log cabin with slabs for seats and desks made of boards fastened to the wall with wooden pins. He sojourned in the Dominion until reaching his majority and in the spring of 1853 came over to the states, and made his way westward to this county arriving in Sabula on the 11 of May in the midst of a snow storm. It is hardly necessary to say that Sabula was then a very small place, and Mr. Marr soon went to Sterling where he engaged as a cooper for some time and then began operating with a breaking team following this business 3 years and until the outbreak of the rebellion.
Our subject now enlisted as a Union soldier in Co A, 24th Iowa Infantry, and was mostly assigned to detached service. He was soon taken ill, and thereafter spent much of his time sick in the hospital, out of which he came permanently disabled and now draws a pension. Soon after the close of the war and after sojourning for a time in Chicago under medical treatment, he came to Sabula in the fall of 1865, and here he has since made his home. He was occupied variously until the fall of 1880 when he embarked in his present business and has been quite successful. He numbers his friends by the scores in this community where he has built up for himself the reputation of an honest man and a good citizen. He is a stanch Rep., politically and socially belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the AOUW, the Iowa legion of Honor and G A R. His estemable wife is a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, they occupy a snug home in the southern part of town, and number their friends in the score in Sabula and vicinity.
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