Posted by Ted C. Smith:
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Published by; John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago, 1889
Lucius A. Marchand, an estimable citizen of Jefferson township and the founder of the village of Marchand, is a son of Dr. Louis and Sarah (Sackett[-1543]) Marchand, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., October 5, 1838.
After four years of age, Lucius A. Marchand was reared on a farm and educated in the common and California schools. He chose farming for a life pursuit and has been a successful farmer up to the present time.
In 1866 he married Miss Minerva, daughter of Henry Van Druff, a prominent farmer and stock-dealer of Greene county, Pa. They have four children; Lewis K., Samuel V., Marion C. and Gertrude E.
Lucius A. Marchand owns the homestead farm of 130 acres (originally 400 acres) five miles below Brownsville. In 1873 he laid on this land the present thriving village of Marchand, containing fifty voters. Marchand is on the line of a projected railroad, opposite Coal Center on the P.V. & C.R.R., and is a favorable site for coke works. L. A. Marchand is a republican and school director. He is an enterprising farmer and a useful member of the Christian Brethren church at Coal Center.
(Ed. note: Lucius A. Marchand died November 2, 1919, per the records of Highland Cemetery, California, PA, where he is interred)
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Published by; John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago, 1889
Lucius A. Marchand, an estimable citizen of Jefferson township and the founder of the village of Marchand, is a son of Dr. Louis and Sarah (Sackett[-1543]) Marchand, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., October 5, 1838.
After four years of age, Lucius A. Marchand was reared on a farm and educated in the common and California schools. He chose farming for a life pursuit and has been a successful farmer up to the present time.
In 1866 he married Miss Minerva, daughter of Henry Van Druff, a prominent farmer and stock-dealer of Greene county, Pa. They have four children; Lewis K., Samuel V., Marion C. and Gertrude E.
Lucius A. Marchand owns the homestead farm of 130 acres (originally 400 acres) five miles below Brownsville. In 1873 he laid on this land the present thriving village of Marchand, containing fifty voters. Marchand is on the line of a projected railroad, opposite Coal Center on the P.V. & C.R.R., and is a favorable site for coke works. L. A. Marchand is a republican and school director. He is an enterprising farmer and a useful member of the Christian Brethren church at Coal Center.
(Ed. note: Lucius A. Marchand died November 2, 1919, per the records of Highland Cemetery, California, PA, where he is interred)
Posted by Ted C. Smith:
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Published by; John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago, 1889
Lucius A. Marchand, an estimable citizen of Jefferson township and the founder of the village of Marchand, is a son of Dr. Louis and Sarah (Sackett[-1543]) Marchand, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., October 5, 1838.
After four years of age, Lucius A. Marchand was reared on a farm and educated in the common and California schools. He chose farming for a life pursuit and has been a successful farmer up to the present time.
In 1866 he married Miss Minerva, daughter of Henry Van Druff, a prominent farmer and stock-dealer of Greene county, Pa. They have four children; Lewis K., Samuel V., Marion C. and Gertrude E.
Lucius A. Marchand owns the homestead farm of 130 acres (originally 400 acres) five miles below Brownsville. In 1873 he laid on this land the present thriving village of Marchand, containing fifty voters. Marchand is on the line of a projected railroad, opposite Coal Center on the P.V. & C.R.R., and is a favorable site for coke works. L. A. Marchand is a republican and school director. He is an enterprising farmer and a useful member of the Christian Brethren church at Coal Center.
(Ed. note: Lucius A. Marchand died November 2, 1919, per the records of Highland Cemetery, California, PA, where he is interred)
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Published by; John M. Gresham & Co., Chicago, 1889
Lucius A. Marchand, an estimable citizen of Jefferson township and the founder of the village of Marchand, is a son of Dr. Louis and Sarah (Sackett[-1543]) Marchand, and was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., October 5, 1838.
After four years of age, Lucius A. Marchand was reared on a farm and educated in the common and California schools. He chose farming for a life pursuit and has been a successful farmer up to the present time.
In 1866 he married Miss Minerva, daughter of Henry Van Druff, a prominent farmer and stock-dealer of Greene county, Pa. They have four children; Lewis K., Samuel V., Marion C. and Gertrude E.
Lucius A. Marchand owns the homestead farm of 130 acres (originally 400 acres) five miles below Brownsville. In 1873 he laid on this land the present thriving village of Marchand, containing fifty voters. Marchand is on the line of a projected railroad, opposite Coal Center on the P.V. & C.R.R., and is a favorable site for coke works. L. A. Marchand is a republican and school director. He is an enterprising farmer and a useful member of the Christian Brethren church at Coal Center.
(Ed. note: Lucius A. Marchand died November 2, 1919, per the records of Highland Cemetery, California, PA, where he is interred)
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