This Archibald Marshall was born February 10, 1805, in the southern part of Indiana county, Pa. He spent the first few years of his life there, and learned the blacksmith trade. On June 29, 1829 he married Elizabeth Bricker who was born November 17, 1807. They lived on his father's farm where he was born, until 1834 when he purchased about 500 acres of land in Armstrong county which was all woods and which was situated in what is now Cowanshannock township, immediately east of Bryan and includes several well cultivated and fertile farms. Mr. Marshall and his family removed to this land in the spring of 1834. They stopped with a neighboring farmer, who lived about a mile from this land until a house could be erected, but this was not long, for the next day all the men in the neighborhood gathered together, cleared away the brush, and built a cabin and Mr. Marshall removed his family into this new home on the following day. This cabin was on the site of the house at present occupied by Simon Cloak about 70 rods east of the postoffice at Bryan, Pa. A few years afterwards Mr. Marshall built a hewed-log house on the site of the house now owned and occupied by Jacob Kroh, which site was on this land. About 1837 Mr. Marshall sold to Robert McMeans a farm off the western portion of this land. In 1840 he sold to Samuel McCartney, a farm off the western part of what remained after the first sale. This latter included the site of Mr. Marshall's first cabin. The next sale he made was from the eastern part of his land, and is now owned by C. A. Logan. The remainder of his land, which is now owned by Mr. Kroh, he sold to James Elder and sons about the year 1846. Mr. Marshall then purchased a farm about one and one half miles from Belknap, Pa. He and his family removed to and resided upon this latter farm until 1868 when they sold it and removed to Illinois. Mrs. Marshall died May 4, 1869, and soon after her death he removed to Kansas where he died September 19, 1870. Mr. Marshall worked at his trade in connection with farming during almost all of his life. His children were eight in number as follows: Jane, Catharine, Margaret, Susan, Mary S., David Lesley, William Atkins, Sarah Anne.