Baltsor, Marshall bio

MARSHALL BALTSOR
Biography

transcribed by Sheryl McClure

from Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890

MARSHALL BALTSOR is the owner and occupant of a valuable farm in Washington County, where he is engaged in general farming and stock raising. His estate consists of 240 acres on section 28, Clifton Township. It is under thorough cultivation, and furnished with excellent farm buildings. All the improvements have been made by himself, and witness to the fact that he is an enterprising and progressive farmer.

Mr. Baltsor arrived in the county on July 25, 1869. The following year he took a homestead, which forms part of his present landed estate. On it he has since lived with the exception of a short time spent a s a hotel proprietor in Vining. Mr. Baltsor came to this county from Kankakee, Ill., where he had been reared. He was born near Montreal, Canada, April 2, 1843, and was the eldest son in the parental family. When a child of about four years the family came to the United States and located on a farm four miles from Kankakee City, Ill..

There the mother died in 1853, being then in middle life. The father survived until April 18, 1888, when he too departed this life. He had reached the advanced ago of eight-two years. Francis and Lenora (Darussoux) Baltsor were natives of Canada and of French descent. Both were born near Montreal and there grew to manhood and womanhood. There they married and lived upon a farm until 1847, when, as before stated they removed to this country. Both were members of the French Catholic Church.

The marriage of our subject took place in Kankakee, Ill., the bride being Miss Juliet Talbot. She was born in Canada, Aug. 11, 1847, and when a child of seven years came with her parents to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot settled on a farm in Kankakee County, Ill., where they lived for some years. In the latter part of 1868 they came to Kansas. They purchased land at Greenleaf, a part of that city being on their farm. There thy are now living, both past the age of sixty years. Like the Baltsor family, they are of French descent and Catholic faith. Mrs. Baltsor was raised in Illinois. She is a good housewife, loving mother, and has the pleasing manners derived from her French ancestry. To herself and her husband twelve children have been born. Six have been taken from them by death, the most of them dying when quite young. The living children bear the names of Georgiana, Eli, Nelson, Philip, Mary and Rosa. All still linger under the parental roof.

Mr. and Mrs. Baltsor are communicants of the Catholic Church. Mr. Baltsor is a believer in principles of the Republican party.

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