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Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812-1912, Vol. II
Compiled from the Records of the Grant County Historical Society,
Archives of the County, Data of Personal Interviews, and
Other Authentic Sources of Local Information
pub. Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York - 1914


      Pg. 673-674


      DR. MARHSALL T. SHIVELY

      One of the leading citizens of the city of Marion, Indiana, and a repre-
      sentative of one of the pioneer families of the state of Indiana, Dr.
      MARSHALL T. SHIVELY is one of the most successful practitioners in Grant
      County. He has lived in Marion all of his life, and his father was a
      physician in this city before him, and he has well sustained the repu-
      tation of this family for ability and strong character.

      DR. MARSHALL T. SHIVELY was born in Marion, Indiana, on the 10th of July,
      1849, the son of DR. JAMES S. and HARRIET O. (MARSHALL) SHIVELY. The
      latter was a daughter of Riley Marshall, who was the grandfather of Vice-
      president THOMAS R. MARSHALL. RILEY MARSHALL came to Grant County and
      settled in 1829, one of the early pioneers of this section. DR. JAMES S.
      SHIVELY was a native of West Virginia, having been born on the 8th of
      April, 1813, at Morgantown, West Virginia, which at that time was part of
      Virginia. He came to Grant County, Indiana in 1836, his father having
      preceded him and settled in Rush County, Indiana. JAMES S. SHIVELY first
      taught school and then read medicine at Newcastle, Indiana. After his
      preparation was complete he began the practice of his profession in
      Muncie, Indiana, remaining there for about a year. In April, 1836, he came
      to Marion and here began to practice medicine. For fifty-four years he was
      engaged in the practice of his profession in Marion and he became a
      prominent physician and one of the influential citizens of the town. He
      was well known for his charity and for the broad mindedness of his views
      in the days when this was a rare virtue. In politics he was a member of
      the Democratic party and was always an active member of his party. He
      served several terms in the lower house of the Indiana Legislature and in
      1886 was elected to the State Senate. He was the father of the SHIVELY
      Medical Bill, the first practical medical bill passed in the state of
      Indiana. He spent a long and useful life in Marion, dying in 1893, at the
      age of eighty years. His wife was also over eighty years old when she died
      on May 28, 1889. Six children were born to this couple, one of whom died
      in infancy. Those yet living are MRS. TERRIE E. JOHNSON of Marion and MRS.
      MARY C. MOTTER, of Marion, in addition to DR. SHIVELY.

      DR. MARSHALL T. SHIVELY was educated as a boy in the city of his birth,
      attending the public schools and taking private courses. In 1872 he
      entered the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, from which institution he
      was graduated in 1874. He began to practice in Marion in partnership with
      his father and he has been in active practice here ever since. He was in
      partnership with his father for ten years.

      DR. SHIVELY is an active Democrat but he has never cared to fill office,
      although he has served as a member of the state central committee. He is a
      member of the Grant County Medical Society and of the Indiana State
      Medical Society, and represented this district at the Democratic National
      Convention at Baltimore in 1912.

      On the 17th of may, 1876, DR. SHIVELY was married to MISS ZAMORA BOBBS,
      a daughter of DR. A.J. and MARY BOBBS of Marion. The doctor and his wife
      have become the parents of seven children, as follows: JAMES H. SHIVELY of
      Houston, Texas; MARY L., who has become the wife of ELMER De POY, of San
      Antonio, Texas; SENATOR BERNARD B. SHIVELY of Marion, a sketch of whose
      life is included in this work; THISBE, who is the wife of RAYMOND E. PAGE,
      of Hornell, New York; MISS LILE ZAMORA SHIVELY, MISS DOROTHEA SHIVELY and
      MISS NAEDEINE SHIVELY, all of whom are living at home. MRS. SHIVELY died
      on the 9th of January, 1910.


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