"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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MARCUS L. ORRELL, was born August 15, 1820 in Davidson
County, NC, and is the ninth of the fifteen children of
Daniel B. and Mary (Hutchin) Orrell, the former a native
of Maryland, the latter of Virginia, and of English and
Irish descent respectively.
Daniel B. Orrell was the owner of a mill, and lived to
the phenomenal age of nearly one hundred and three years.
Marcus was reared a miller, and received but a limited
education. In 1840, he emigrated to Indiana, and engaged
in milling at Mooresville, Morgan County, where he 
remained for sixteen years. 
April 7, 1844, he married Miss Lucinda Spoon, of Mooresville
a union blessed with eleven children, seven of whom yet
live. In 1854, he moved to Quincy, Owen County, where
he built a flouring mill and has since resided. This
mill he operated for seven years. In 1872, he engaged in
general dry goods trade, with a large stock, which he lost
by fire one year afterward but immediately and resolutely
resumed.
January 16, 1877, he lost his wife and August 28, 1879,
married Lydia A. Thompson, of this county. Mr. Orrell has
been a Justice of the Peace about twenty eight years, is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a very worthy 
and highly respected gentleman.

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