From his infancy he stuttered, and the mercantile trade was chosen for him. After receiving an education from Augusta College, and a smattering of Latin from his cousin Rev. John Alexander McClung, he went to Cincinnati as a clerk in the wholesale grocery business of Kilgour, Taylor & Co. He remained there until he achieved his majority, when with another clerk he started the wholesale house of Paxton & Keys on Main Street. Keys was a splendid salesman, and Marshall an excellent bookkeeper and correspondent. After a few years, Lafayette Maltby became a partner and he stationed himself at New Orleans, and branches were subsequently opened at Rio and Havana. In 1850 Paxton was elected to the board of directors of the Covington Branch of the Farmers' Bank. His life was cut short by kidney disease at the age of thirty-five. His sister Phoebe wrote at his death, 'I think we will all be short lived. Our parents were so before us, and one of our number being taken, should warn us to prepare for death. God in his mercy grant that this effect may be produced on all of us'. A short death notice for him appeared in The Covington Journal, Feb. 15, 1851, p. 2, col. 5.
From his infancy he stuttered, and the mercantile trade was chosen for him. After receiving an education from Augusta College, and a smattering of Latin from his cousin Rev. John Alexander McClung, he went to Cincinnati as a clerk in the wholesale grocery business of Kilgour, Taylor & Co. He remained there until he achieved his majority, when with another clerk he started the wholesale house of Paxton & Keys on Main Street. Keys was a splendid salesman, and Marshall an excellent bookkeeper and correspondent. After a few years, Lafayette Maltby became a partner and he stationed himself at New Orleans, and branches were subsequently opened at Rio and Havana. In 1850 Paxton was elected to the board of directors of the Covington Branch of the Farmers' Bank. His life was cut short by kidney disease at the age of thirty-five. His sister Phoebe wrote at his death, 'I think we will all be short lived. Our parents were so before us, and one of our number being taken, should warn us to prepare for death. God in his mercy grant that this effect may be produced on all of us'. A short death notice for him appeared in The Covington Journal, Feb. 15, 1851, p. 2, col. 5.
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Marshall Paxton
born
Feb 4, 1819
died
February 12, 1851
And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes,
and there shall be
no more death. Rev. 21:4.
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