The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 163

ARCHIE B. MARSHALL.

Archie B. Marshall, actively engaged in the grocery business in Grandview since
1916, has built up a trade of large and gratifying proportions and is accounted
one of the most enterprising and progressive merchants of the town. He comes to
the west from Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Indiana county, that
state, on the 27th of June, 1858, a son of Archibald and Mary A. (Wadding)
Marshall, both of whom were natives of Indiana county. The father devoted his
life to the occupation of farming until his labors were stayed by the hand of
death. His widow survives and is yet living in the Keystone state.

Archie B. Marshall completed his education in the Glade Run Academy of
Pennsylvania and in early life became familiar with the occupation of farming,
but desirous of entering commercial circles, he established a grocery store at
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and afterward was proprietor of a store at Indiana,
Pennsylvania. The year 1906 witnessed his removal to the northwest. He made his
way first to Oregon and in 1907 came to Grandview, Washington, where he
purchased twenty acres of orchard land, thirteen acres of which had been planted
to fruit. Later he sold this place, disposing of it about 1908. He afterward
spent another year in the east, but the lure of the west was upon him and he
returned to Grandview, where he had his home. He bought seven and a half acres
of orchard land near Grandview and later he spent the year 1915 in the grocery
business in Yakima. Again he returned to Grandview, where he has since been
engaged in the grocery trade and has the largest store of the town. He also
purchased another grocery store in Grandview and conducts both establishments
under the name of A. B. Marshall & Son. He is liberally patronized and is
regarded as a forceful and resourceful business man whose progressive spirit is
manifest in the gratifying success which has attended him.

In 1887 Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Emma Diven, who was born in
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Frank Diven, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall are the parents of two children: Earl, who died at the age of two
years; and Fred D., who married Gladys Evans and is in business with his father.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are members of the Presbyterian church and he gives his
political allegiance to the Republican party. He was active in township affairs
in Pennsylvania, filling a number of offices, and has served as a member of the
town council of Grandview. He belongs to the Business Men's Association and is a
most alert and energetic man who has been very active as an orchardist,
conducting other orchards besides his own. He has become expert in that line and
his experience and knowledge enable him to speak with authority upon the subject
of fruit raising in the Yakima valley. He established the grocery store for his
son and in both branches of business he is meeting with well merited and well
deserved success.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.