This is a transcription of the Annis (Gage) Marshall biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 105.
Annis (Gage) Marshall
ANNIS GAGE, daughter of Solomon and Dolly (Chase) Gage, was born in Bedford, August 1, 1832. She received her education in the district school and the institutes at Nashua and Reed’s Ferry, and was for some time successfully engaged in teaching, until her marriage, January 23. 1853, with Enoch P. Marshall of Dunbarton, which town was subsequently her home until after Mr. Marshall’s decease, in September, 1891. Of an active temperament, and endowed with strong mental powers, she realized thoroughly the social and intellectual limitations of life in our farming communities, especially so far as woman is concerned, and when the Grange movement began to be developed in the state, she was among the first to realize its importance, and the advantages which it offered her sex in common with the other. She became a charter member of Stark grange, of Dunbarton, organized in 1874, and was ever a devoted laborer for the success of the organization, and the order at large, serving seven years, altogether, as lecturer, and occupying other official positions. An earnest and eloquent speaker, gifted also with poetic talent of no mean order, she has often been heard effectively, not only in grange gatherings, public as well as private, but at general agricultural meetings, in addresses and poems. The cause of temperance, also, has ever found in her an ardent friend and champion, and at all proper times and occasions she has spoken freely and forcibly in its interest; yet never neglecting, in the slightest degree, the paramount duty of wife and mother. In 1892, after her husband’s decease, she removed to the beautiful village of Milford, where, in a cosy cottage, with attractive surroundings, and a beautiful outlook, her home is now established in companionship with her daughter Jessie, a teacher in the Milford schools. Lydia, another daughter, for a time engaged in departmental work in Washington, is now a teacher in that city, while Bertha, the third, is the wife of L. O. Goodhue of Bow.