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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Marshall1 City (1990 pop. 12,711), seat of Saline co., N central Mo.; inc. 1839. In a large farm area, it is a processing center for grain, eggs, meat, and dairy products. Marshall is the seat of Missouri Valley College. George Caleb Bingham lived there.

2 City (1990 pop. 23,682), seat of Harrison co., E Tex., in a pine-covered hill and lake area; inc. 1844. Live-oak-shaded streets and mansions recall the plantation past of the city, which manufactures stoneware pottery, ceramic tiles, and chemicals. It is the seat of East Texas Baptist Univ. and Wiley College, the first historically African-American college west of the Mississippi (founded 1873).

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Marshall

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Marshall ♂ Transferred use of the surname, derived from a Norman French occupational term that originally denoted someone who looked after horses, ultimately from Germanic marah ‘horse’ + scalc ‘servant’. By the time it became fixed as a surname it had the meaning ‘shoeing smith’ later it came to denote an official whose duties were to a large extent ceremonial. The surname is pronounced the same as the Latin name Martial (from Latin Mars, genitive Martis; compare Martin). This may have contributed something to its use as a given name.

Variant: Marshal.

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