. Fitchburg past and present . amuel Felton, superintendent, took the news toFitchburg in fifty-one minutes. Mr. Marshall, who had been waiting forthree days for the news, with a, horse harnessed night and day and a mansleeping in the kitchen ready for the hitch into a sleigh, immediatelystarted. Ashburnham Center was reached in 27 minutes; Windsor. Vt,(90 miles), was reached that night, Mr. Marshall arriving in Montreal longbefore Mr. Twichell. The horse, Old Buck, then a fine dapple gray,lived to an old age and became perfectly white. On the strength ofthis plucky trial of speed the subscrip
. Fitchburg past and present . amuel Felton, superintendent, took the news toFitchburg in fifty-one minutes. Mr. Marshall, who had been waiting forthree days for the news, with a, horse harnessed night and day and a mansleeping in the kitchen ready for the hitch into a sleigh, immediatelystarted. Ashburnham Center was reached in 27 minutes; Windsor. Vt,(90 miles), was reached that night, Mr. Marshall arriving in Montreal longbefore Mr. Twichell. The horse, Old Buck, then a fine dapple gray,lived to an old age and became perfectly white. On the strength ofthis plucky trial of speed the subscription for the Cheshire railroad wassecured and the road chartered. Mr. Marshall was prominent in local affairs, and his name is frequentlymentioned in the town records as the incumbent of various offices and amember of many important committees. Mrs. Marshall was a native of Fitchburg, a daughter of Jacob and Mary(Cowdin) Upton. She died in 1877. Mr. Marshall died June 21. 1863,leaving five children, four daughters and one CAPT. ALBERT HANNIBAL KELSEY (1811-1901). Extensive building contractor and mill engineer, ranking second tonone in the United States as an expert authority in reference to cottonmills especially, and hydraulic en|,ineering of whatever nature. Born in Shirley. Oct. 30. 1811. Son of Daniel and Sarah (Ordway) to Fitchburg at the age of ten. lived five years with Deacon Jaquith,at fifteen was apprenticed to Zachariah Sheldon, and had charge of build-ing the Methodist church (now the Wesley) before he was a church and hotel in Winchendon for Captain Murdock. At twenty-four went to work on the old (then new) court house, Court square. Bos-ton. Afterward built the Concord Reformatory, erected no less than threedifferent buildings on the site of the present Masonic Temple, corner Tre-mont and Boylston streets, Boston, and was superintendent of the exten-sive additions to the State House on Beacon Hill. He went to , in
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