1833 born USA
1852-6 Lee & Marshall national circus in California
1857 to 1859 Rowe & Marshall’s American Circus, with John A Rowe which toured Australia and New Zealand
1860 January opens a melodeon in Sacramento
1862 John R Marshall the circus man, of circus firm Lee & Marshall and recently proprietor of a melodeon in Sacramento was shot in both arms so that he will lose them, at Walla Walla, Oregon while attempting to rescue William Peoples and two others, who were being hung by the mob as a robber (San Joaquin Republican 4 December 1862)
1866 Lee & Ryland’s Hippodrome, San Francisco – treasurer
1867 March 1st – on Hermann from San Francisco to Yokohama with Frederik Blekman, De Witt Clinton Brower, Ferdinand Gilbert, A. Fischer, Lucky Baldwin, G.W. Burgess. Arrive 12th April.
1867 June – at Maguire’s Academy of Music, San Francisco. Toroonoski, slack rope performer has an accident. Witnessed by Great Dragon Troupe.
1867 July – Marshall and Doyle Mikado Troupe from Palace Theatre Yeddo. New York. Owyouske female gymnast.
1868 February – Marshall and Doyle Washington DC – Little fellows All Right, You Bet and Dan Webster visit the audience, disposing of photographs.
1868 May – Galena Illinois Mr. Marshall, of the Mikado Troupe, who perform at Davis Hall this evening, advises us that the Japanese children, traveling with him, have been well supplied with clothing since they arrived in this country.
1868 August – The Mikado Japs arrived from New York and were to go to Virginia City under Mr Baldwin’s management. So Marshall transferred management/ownership to Baldwin?
1868 August – We have seen a letter signed by the United States Consul at Kingston, Canada, stating that the Mikado troupe of Japanese, who were taken East from this city [San Francisco] by Messrs. Marshall, Burgess & Doyle, were left in that city in a perfectly destitute condition. They are eleven in number, and arrived here by the last steamer from Panama, en route for home, having been assisted to reach New York, and from thence brought here by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, free of charge. The poor fellows appear greatly discouraged, and if they reach their own country they will, doubtless, give anything but a flattering report of the good faith and humanity of a portion of our people. Daily Alta 15 August
1869- October agent for Wilson’s World Circus
1870 Managed hall shows, advertiser with Leihy Lake & Co California Overland Circus and Menagerie. General business agent.
1872 April – June – Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in San Francisco – brought over from Japan by Robert Cunningham and Marshall
1872 August – Marshall & Co’s Royal Tycoon troupe of Japanese performed at Omaha
1872 September Royal Tycoon Peoria Illinois
1872 November – Marshall’s Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in New York. Sozo Ketchie, Ueki Noski, Fritz Zobro, To Go To, Ossawa Uema Ketchie, Toro Noski, Uema Fletchie, To Minnagawa Gusso Geero and Little Allright
1873 April – Marshall’s Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe in Georgia
1873 May – in Bahama Islands
1873 July – Marshall’s Royal Tycoon Japanese Troupe. Olympic Theatre, New York.
1873 July – Marshall’s troupe in Jamaica All Right, To-Co- Zoo
1873 November – Marshall’s Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese in Martinique, then Barbados.
1874 Marshall’s Royal Tycoon troupe in Mexico
1874 September – Marshall’s Royal Tycoon Troupe arrive in San Diego
1874 October – move to Los Angeles and San Francisco- uses similar graphics to Tannaker. The wonderful little prodigies Uni Moska and Take Ketchie, the balancing feats of Toro Moska and the flying bamboo evolutions of To Go Zo. The fire eater Orzawam and Unie Ketichie also came in for their full share of applause. (LA Herald, 11 Oct – p3)
1886 September – Oregon Marshall’s Japanese acrobats
1886 October – Marshall’s Japanese Tourists – Classic Opera House Sacramento. 11 members, jugglers, top spinners, Equilibrists, balancers and dancers. Juvenile japs and a little All Right and a female paper rope walker. Mr Marshall was the builder of the old Metropolitan theatre in Sacramento and occupied it in its early days as an amphitheatre with Lee & Marshall’s circus Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 56, Number 55, 25 October 1886
1886 November – famous Japanese tourists Grand Opera House Los Angeles – human fountain, rope ascension, slide for life, dancing rice barrels, Japanese dancing, trapeze and ladder performing, double swinging bamboos, posturing, top spinning, the magic ladder
1886 December – Marshall’s Imperial Japanese New Orleans
1886 December 25 Marshall’s Japanese jugglers sailed Saturday for Colon (Panama).
1887 March – we noticed in the papers received from Trinidad by the last mail that Marshall’s troupe of Japanese had arrived at Port of Spain from La Guira and intended playing in Trinidad. We do not know if Mr Marshall contemplates visiting Barbados, but if he does, we wanrn him before hand that his trip is not likely to prove a money success (Barbados Agricultural Reporter, 11 March 1887 p 2)
1887 Marshall’s Japanese troupe – April – Barbados
1887 October 1 Marshall’s speciality co Japanese specialities
1887 October – Marshall’s Japanese Tourists Nebraska
1888 sells contract for Japanese troupe to Bailey of Barnum & Bailey
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