Mathias Marker, a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was born in 1811, and migrated to Indiana in 1834.  After entering a 200 acre farm in Perry township, three and a half miles northeast of Ligonier; he returned to Pennsylvania, where he married Charlotte Felgar. They returned to Indiana in 1835 and he carried the surveyor's chain which was instrumental in platting Ligonier.  A brother-in-law to Isaac Cavin and the eldest of ten children who, with their father and mother, settled on the farm entered by Mathias in 1835, he had many interesting experiences in the then new County.

In 1848, after the birth of Albert, the youngest of five children to be cared for by the grandmother and her daughters, Mr. Marker was later married to Sarah Ogle Wright, the mother of Carson Marker and Phila Wolf.  At her death he married Nancy Shidler.  A resident of Ligonier for many years, he died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Walter Wolf, in 1891.