Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Marshall, Hugh , Ota Creek Farm, Edendale. Mr Marshall was born in 1818, in Linlithgowshire, Scotland, and accompanied his parents to Port Chalmers by the ship “Three Bells,” in 1856. He worked on his father's farm at West Taieri till 1874, when he removed to South Wyndham, where he became interested in a leasehold property, and took agricultural contracts. In 1886, Mr Marshall leased 276 acres at Edendale from the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, and purchased the farm in 1898. Sheepfarming and cropping are carried on and fifty cows are in milk. Mr Marshall is a member of the Edendale school committee, and a director of the dairy factory. He was married, in 1878, to a daughter of the late Mr Neil Ross, of West Taieri, and has five sons and four daughters.