U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Troxell, Marcellus (1851-1915) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Page 445 Marcellus Troxell, son of Philip and Lavina Troxell, died in Denver, Colo., April, 1915. No other boy who ever went out from Braxton county had a greater or more varied experience than Marcellus Troxell. He left his home in Sutton in 1868 when only seventeen years of age, and wandered through the wilds of the West, and visited many strange lands. He served five years in the U. S. army, and fought Indians on the western frontier. Later he served in the U. S. Navy, made several trips around the world, and was in two or three shipwrecks. After leaving the navy, he worked in the steel mills at Steubenville, Ohio, farmed in Indiana and Illinois, mined and prospected in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, Alaska and Mexico. He was in San Francisco at the time of the big earthquake which occurred in 1906, and later worked on the Panama canal. While employed on the canal, he received injuries which necessitated the amputation of one leg for which the government paid him $2500. After recovering from this injury he came home and remained several months, going from here to Nevada and then to Denver, where he resided for several years until his death. He was a man of genial disposition and extraordinary intellect, and but for his too intimate relations with old John Barleycorn would have been a success in any line of endeavor. He was never married. His body was interred in Denver. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Braxton County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/braxton/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------