Phillip H. Marbury. 

"Phillip H. Marbury, planter, was born in Buncombe County, N. C.
April 24, 1810.   He is the son of Benjamin and Mary (Hoodenpyl) Marbury,
of English and Dutch descent respectively....Our subject, the oldest child,
with exception of the time from 1820 - 1827 in Rhea County, has since
six years of age, lived in Warren County.  After completing his academic
education, he studied medicine one year under Dr. Hill, but abandoned it
and in January 1829, began a four year's clerkship for John Cain; then
for twenty years after the spring of 1833 he was in partnership with
Alexander Black as merchant at McMinnville.  In 1852, Mr. Marbury
was elected president of a railway stock company to build a road to
McMinnville...In 1844 he became a planter near McMinnville and
now owns 700 acres of good land and 400 under cultivation.  He has
been married three times: first, in September 1833 to Rebecca Mercer,
a descendant of Gen. Fenton Mercer; second, to Mrs. Mary E. Scott
whose maiden name was Grundy, a granddaughter of Felix Grundy of
State farm: third, to Mrs. Liley T. Garner, whose maiden name was
Estell, a descendant of ex-Gov. Thomas of Maryland.  Mr. Marbury
was an old line Whig before the war, but has since been a Democrat,
and always a liberal public worker.  He is a member of
Cumberland Presbyterian Church." 
                                             ~Goodspeed History of Warren Co. TN, p. 903

BENJAMIN HOODENPYL MARBURY.

   It is said that the poet is born, not made, but the successful
lawyer has to be both born and made - made by close
application, earnest effort, by perseverance and resolute
purpose.  The abilities with which nature has endowed him
must be strengthened and developed by use, and only by
merit can the lawyer gain a permanent position.  And further
than this, it is the tendency of the age to devote one's
energies to a special line, continually working upward and
and concentrating his efforts toward accomplishing a
desired end, - so in the career of Benjamin H. Marbury, who
who has risen above the average in his specialty and is one
of the most prominent and successful of criminal lawyers.
He also represents a number of important corporations and
does a general practice.

Benjamin H. Marbury was born in Warren County,
Tennessee, October 30, 1865, the same being the district of
the nativity of his father, also Benjamin Marbury, whose
eyes first opened to the light of day September 20, 1840.
The elder gentleman, who was a physician by profession,
was also educated for the law.  His earlier training was
secured in the Cumberland University at Lebanon,
Tennessee, and to obtain his preparation in medicine and
surgery, he matriculated in the medical college which
afterwards became the medical department of Vanderbilt
University, being graduated from that institution in 1868,
with the degree of M.D.  He subsequently became surgeon
for the Sewanee Coal Mine of Tracy City, Tennessee, and
there remained until 1873, in which year he went to
Mississippi County, Missouri, and within its boundaries he
practiced medicine until his death, which lamentable event
occurred November 20, 1875.  He was a communicant of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, and in politics was a
supporter of the men and measures of the Democratic party.
He married in Scott county, Missouri, to Rachel Anne Lusk,
daughter of William M. Lusk, a farmer of that locality, and
their love story was not without the pleasant element of
romance.  Benjamin Marbury, the elder, was a Confederate
soldier under General Braxton Bragg.

In the year of the great struggle between the states he was
captured at Franklin and was put a prisoner on board a boat
which was landed at Scott's Landing.  He escaped by jumping
off the boat with four messmates, and while a fugitive he met
Mr. Lusk, his father-in-law to be, and, both being Masons, a
firm friendship was cemented.  The elder gentleman took him
to his home and there he met the daughter of the house, the
two young people falling immediately in love.  They were
married in May, 1862.  Three sons were born to bless this
union, they being: Horatio L., editor of the Festus News at
Festus, Missouri; Benjamin H.; and Dr. Alexander B., a
dentist at Charleston.  Dr. Marbury was a prominent and
talented physician and well merited that term which has come
to mean all of good, "a Southern gentleman."

Benjamin H. Marbury received his early education in the
public schools of Mississippi county and later matriculated at
Bellevue College, located at Caledonia, Missouri, and was
graduated from the same in 1887, with the degree of B. S.
Like so many of our successful men he taught school for
several years and became president of St. Charles College,
at St. Charles, Missouri.  He completed his literary and legal
education in Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri,
and was admitted to the bar at Petosi, Missouri, in 1895.  In
1897 he came to Farmington and here success has awaited
him.  He was elected prosecuting attorney in November,
1903, and served until 1905.  Generally recognized as a
proper man for public office, he was made a candidate for
judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals in September, 1910,
but was beaten by Charles Bates.  At the present time he is
attorney for the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company and
also for the Farmers Bank, the Flat River Ice & Cold Storage
Company, and the Peoples' Bank of Delose.  As a member
of the firm of Marbury & Hensley, he conducts a very
successful general practice.  Mr. W. L. Hensley, his partner,
being United States congressman from the Thirteenth
Missouri district.  Mr. Marbury has won considerable fame in
this locality as a gifted criminal lawyer.  During the one term
in which he was prosecuting attorney he convicted over forty
men, one for the death penalty.  The aggregate sentence of
the remaining thirty-nine amounted to over one thousand
years.  He proved a stanch and strenuous judge, - the friend
of good government.

Mr. Marbury laid the foundation of a happy home and ideally
congenial life companionship when on September 3, 1895, he
was united in marriage to Annie Eversole of Caledonia,
Missouri, daughter of William G. and Rebecca A. Eversole.
Mr. and Mrs. Marbury share their hospitable and attractive
home with three children - Virginia, Leonard Rutledge and
Anna.  Mrs. Marbury is a direct descendant of Chief Justice
John Rutledge, of South Carolina.  The subject is in direct
descent from Felix Grundy, the celebrated Southern
statesman, United States senator from Tennessee in 1829 -
1838 and attorney general from 1838 - 1840.  Mr. Marbury is
a gifted orator and possibly inherits his silver tongue from his
distinguished forebear.  Fraternally he is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, Cristal Lodge No. 50, of Farmington;
politically is a Democrat; and he and his family are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

                      ~Article "History of Southeast Missouri" p. 585 & 585

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Horatio L. Marbury

H. L. MARBURY.  Born at Price's Landing, Scott county
Missouri, H. L. Marbury, editor and proprietor of the Festus News,
is still on the very sunny side of fifty, as the day of his birth was
  February 4, 1864.  Benjamin Marbury, his father, was born at
McMinnville, Tennessee on the 20th of September, 1840, was a man
of remarkably broad education.  His earlier mental training was in a
literary school at Leavenworth, Tennessee, and he afterward studied
law, but decided finally in favor of medicine.  Looking to that end, he
completed a course in the medical department of the Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, in 1868.  Now a thoroughly qualified M. D., he
located at Tracy City, Tennessee, and became surgeon of the
Sewanee Coal Mine of that place, as well as a general physician of
large practice.  In 1873 he moved to Charleston, Mississippi county,
of the same state, where he practiced until his death, November 20,
1875, at the early age of thirty-five years.

Benjamin Marbury, the father was a soldier under the well known
Confederate general, Braxton Bragg.  He was made a prisoner at
Franklin, escaped from the boat in which he was confined, and while
a fugitive was taken to the home of William M. Lusk, a Scott county
farmer who had a pretty daughter, Rachel Anna; the rest of the story
is the old simple chapter, ever fresh and sweet with each recurring
life of the normal man and woman - attraction budding into love, and
love blossoming into marriage.  The marriage of Benjamin Marbury
to Rachel Lusk occurred in May 1862, when both were in their
youthful years, and the three children born of their union were
Horatio L., of this biography; Benjamin H., the well known lawyer of
Farmington, St. Francois county; and Dr. Alexander B. Marbury, a
dentist at Charleston, Mississippi county.

H. L. Marbury obtained his early education in the public schools of
Charleston, Missouri, in 1884 entering the Bellview Collegiate
Institute of Caledonia and graduating from its commercial deparment
in 1889.  After working for some time he returned to that institution
and took an advanced course which brought him the degree of B.S.
He then taught for several years in Reynolds, Scott and Washington
counties, the last of his labors in the field of education being
conducted in that last named county, at Mineral Point, in 1891-92.

Mr. Marbury enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war,
joining the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Infantry Regiment.  After the war
he returned to Fort Smith, where he was mustered out with an
honorable record, and thence went to his home in Caledonia.

Prior to his war experience he had studied law, and while residing in
Arkansas he was admitted to the bar and practiced in that state.
Subsequently he was connected with the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company, and partially completed the regular course at the St. Louis
University Law School.  Sickness in the family compelled him to
return to Crystal City, where he again entered the employ of the
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company.  But he craved something more
stimulating and intellectual, and in 1904 purchased the Festus News,
which he still conducts as a stirring, solid Democratic newspaper.  The
News has a circulation of over a thousand, and, under Mr. Marbury's
good management, is a substantial and influential journal.  Besides
owning his newspaper plant in Festus, he has considerable real
estate in the town, and is in every way one of its substantial citizens.
He is a leading member of the Methodist church, being steward in
the local organization, and is well known as a fraternalist because of
his active connection with the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows and
Redmen.

In 1903 Mr. Marbury wedded Miss Nellie Gertrude Evens, of
Mineral Point, Missouri and their child, Willard Horatio Marbury, is
now five years of age.
~Article "History of Southeast Missouri" p. 885 & 886