Probably one of the shortest lived city officials in Marion history was John Marion Young. John was born ca 1836. By the 1840 census, his unknown father had passed away leaving his widow Rachel, who appears to have died and left John and his five siblings as orphans around 1845 or 1846. After their mother Rachel’s death, John M. and his brothers William Wilshire Young & George Washington Young were farmed out as indentured servants to George W. & Mariah Binkley who then lived on a farm north of Marion which would later be platted as the village of White Ash.
Continue readingJohn P. Moore was born April 25, 1855 near Hopkinsville, Kentucky to George Nicolas Moore and Mary Gatewood. The family moved in his youth to Missouri so his father could carry mail on a star route assisted by his son. John recalled the time he was riding his route and Indians gave him a scare but left him unharmed.
He later moved to Marion and when 22 years old married Leona White, daughter of John H. White and Emily McCoy, in Williamson County on May 1, 1878, who died in 1919. They had one son named Clyde Holden Moore who died in 1936. Clyde’s son passed away in Washington, DC in 1942. On January 19, 1927, John remarried to Miss Mary V. Beckham while living in Washington, DC.
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James Moulton Campbell was born in Princeton, Kentucky on October 24, 1849 to Samuel Cregg Campbell and Louisa Howard. James attended local schools until his family migrated to Williamson County in 1865 where they established residence in East Marion Township. His siblings were Samuel F., James, William H., America and Martha.
Continue readingWilliam Cook was a Civil War era merchant in Marion and served as a City Trustee after the Civil War yet only a small amount of information could be found about him. He appears to have been born in Southern Illinois in 1825. In the 1850 census, William was found living with the William R. Gregg family near Equality, Illinois in Gallatin County. He was listed as being 26 years old, a farmer, and had real estate estimated at $600, which was doing quite well for that time.
Continue readingLouis Gudder was born in Kovno, Lithuania, later a part of Russia, Dec 17, 1877. He was a junk dealer in Marion from the early 1900s through the depression years until his death in 1956. He was also the owner of the block on the square where the Goodall Hotel burned in 1941. He immigrated to America in 1902 or 1903. Hard work and judicious buying and selling of scrap metal made him a very prosperous man.
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