1852 - 1948 (95 years)
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Name |
Henry Brown Marshall |
Suffix |
JP DL |
Birth |
21 Oct 1852 |
Glenhove, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1948 |
Person ID |
I84191 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
3 Dec 2019 |
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Notes |
- Marshall was educated at Dollar Academy and then in due course he became Manager of Nether Johnston Colliery, near Glasgow, experience which was to be useful later on. In 1878, after an illness, he was advised to live in a dry climate and, as one of his sisters had married in 1874 William McLaren, a leading citizen of Heidelberg, Transvaal, it was natural for him to join them. There were no railways in those days, except near the coast, so Marshall, realising the opportunities which existed in provision of efficient transport, invested his small capital in wagons and oxen, but before he could start a business the Zulu War broke out early in 1879 so he hired his wagons to the British Army and took part in the campaign. Later on he organised the mail contracts from Maritzburg to Pretoria, Barberton and elsewhere till 1891.
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