Marshall P. Getchell and Josephine Kinnear

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Husband Marshall P. Getchell ¹

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           Born: 29 Jan 1837 - Waterville, Kennebec Co, ME 2
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           Died: 27 Apr 1902 - ? Colorado 3
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Wife Josephine Kinnear ¹

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           Born: 13 Jul 1846 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Kinnear (1814-1902) 4 5
         Mother: Jeanette Stratton Parshall (1822-1906) 6 7

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Marshall P. Getchell

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He was a great-grandson of Zachariah Taylor, of Revolutionary War fame.

His boyhood was spent in his home town where he was prepared for college. Instead of entering college, he made a trip to California in those early days, when such trips were accompanied with many hardships and adventures.
He returned by the way of the Isthmus of Panama. After crossing the Isthmus, and taking a ship for home, the ship was wrecked, but Mr. Getchell, with a number of companions, refused to desert the wrecked ship, and for four days they were expecting to be swallowed up by the sea at any time. During this time, one of their number died, and he was given the regular sea burial, Mr. Getchell reading the burial service.
After his return home, the Civil War broke out and Mr. Getchell volunteered and went out as first lieutenant in the 9th Maine Regiment. He served one year, was taken with the rheumatism and compelled to resign. He returned home, recovered and again volunteered for service. He was made major of the 80th U. S. Regiment. He was in many of the battles of the Rebellion and acquitted himself with great credit.
At the close of the war he entered the oil business in western Pennsylvania and settled down in the town of Tidioute. He was very successful, becoming at different times Burgess of the town, director of the schools, and president of the Tidioute Savings Bank.
Later he moved to Colorado, settling in the town of Gunnison, where he was also successful in business.

1 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 123.

2 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 124.

3 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 125.

4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 458, BP liv.

5 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 115.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 391.

7 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 116.