Editing Arthur Marshall (composer) (section)

==Early life and education==
Marshall was born on a farm in [[Saline County, Missouri]], the son of Emily Marshall, a [[cleaner|washerwoman]], and Edward Marshall, who had no discernible career, on November 20, 1881. A few years later his family moved to [[Sedalia, Missouri]] because black children were allowed to attend school nine months a year there as opposed to the three months allowed blacks elsewhere, and the Sedalia townspeople were reportedly more accepting of African Americans.<ref>Jannet Hubbard-Brown (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=nH7gZAebnHkC&dq=Arthur+Marshall+%28composer%29&pg=PA30 ''Scott Joplin: Composer''], p. 30</ref> The Marshalls lived at 135 West Henry Street.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jasen|first=David A.|year=2000|title=That American Rag: The Story of Ragtime from Coast to Coast|url=https://archive.org/details/thatamericanrags00davi|url-access=registration|publisher=Schirmer Books, New York|isbn=0-02-864743-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/thatamericanrags00davi/page/26 26]}}</ref>  Marshall attended elementary school in Sedalia. He was only fifteen years old when [[Scott Joplin]] first arrived in Sedalia. Joplin took up residence with the Marshall family, and before long both Marshall and [[Scott Hayden]], a Lincoln High School classmate of Marshall, became Joplin's protégés. Marshall had already taken some private lessons in classical music years before, and was versed with piano technique and a gift for syncopation. Joplin also helped get Marshall a job at the Maple Leaf Club during its single year of existence in 1899. In the club on October 1, 1899, Marshall got into a fight with a young man named Ernst Edwards over Edwards's girlfriend. They took their fight outside, Marshall pummeled Edwards with his cane, Edwards drew a gun, and Marshall ran away.<ref>{{cite book|author1-link=Edward A. Berlin|last=Berlin|first=Edward A.|year=1994|title=King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|isbn=0-19-510108-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/kingofragtimesco00berl_0/page/43 43]|url=https://archive.org/details/kingofragtimesco00berl_0/page/43}}</ref>