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JONAS A. MARSHALL 1800-1887

Junior Grand Warden 1854

MEMORIAL

From Proceedings, Page 1887-32:

"In preparing this tribute to the memory of one who, a generation ago, was an office-bearer in this. Grand Lodge, your Committee not only perform a sacred duty, but also avail themselves of a special privilege. We recount the virtues of one whose active life had well-nigh ceased before ours began, but who stood before our earlier years the embodiment of uprightmanliness, of Masonic worth, of exemplary moral character. He was, in very truth, our beloved and respected elder Brother. Jonas Augustus Marshall was born at Fitchburg, March 21, 1800. His grandfather, a notable physician of his day, had come to Fitchburg soon after the Revolutionary War. The farm upon which he settled remains in the possession of a descendant. His son, Jonas Marshall, was a prominent citizen, frequently called to positions of honor and trust. He lived to an advanced age.

"The grandson, Jonas A., (our deceased Brother), studied medicine with Dr. Miller, of Franklin, became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1831, and was for upwards of forty years a leading practitioner in the northern part of Worcester County. Skilful and untiring, kindly, sympathetic and cheerful, and possessing in a rare degree what we are accustomed to speak of as personal magnetism, he was a fit representative of the good physician, bringing relief and comfort to the afflicted, and helping to soothe sorrow where he had been unable to bestow the touch of healing. He was faithful to his poorest patients ; no night was so dark or stormy, no way so long or dreaiy, as to keep him from their service ; and not in