O T Marshall

MARSHALL

Posted By: Tina Keister
Date: 1/20/2006 at 17:11:14

O T Marshall, agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, Boone, was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, on June 13, 1827, he was raised a farmer until nineteen years of age, and then learned the trade of chair carving, but owing to impaired health was compelled to relinquish the business, he had a mercantile experience in Nashua and then entered the employ of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad as agent, he came to this county in 1869 and entered the employ of the company he now represents as cashier, at this place, and was afterward appointed to his present postion, which he fills so satisfactorily, Mr Marshall has never been out of the situation a day since he was twenty-one years old, he married Miss Harriett L Barrett in 1853, she was born in New Hampshire, they have one son: George E

From the 1880 Boone County History Book