 On settling in <unk> , Indiana , Marshall began to attend public school . His father and grandfather became embroiled in a dispute with their Methodist minister when they refused to vote Republican in the 1862 election . The minister threatened to expel them from the church , to which Marshall 's grandfather replied that he would " take his risk on hell , but not the Republican Party " . The dispute prompted the family to move again , to Fort Wayne , and convert to the Presbyterian church . In Fort Wayne , Marshall attended high school , graduating in 1869 . At age fifteen his parents sent him to Wabash College , in Crawfordsville , where he received a classical education . His father advised him to study medicine or become a minister , but neither interested him ; he entered the school without knowing which profession he would take upon graduation . 
