History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . theybegan to make the machines also and the cards withthem. It is supposed that under the direction ofAbraham Marland, an Englishman, who commencedwoolen manufacturing in Audover as early as 1807,the brothers Marsh made the first carding machineused in this part of the country. Subsequently theysent many into New Hampshire and Maine. Duringtheir long career it has been said that the example of David and John Marsh was proverbial, not only forthe fairness of their dealings and their p
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . theybegan to make the machines also and the cards withthem. It is supposed that under the direction ofAbraham Marland, an Englishman, who commencedwoolen manufacturing in Audover as early as 1807,the brothers Marsh made the first carding machineused in this part of the country. Subsequently theysent many into New Hampshire and Maine. Duringtheir long career it has been said that the example of David and John Marsh was proverbial, not only forthe fairness of their dealings and their promptness tomeet all obligations, but also for the brotherly kind-ness which marked their intercourse with each other. Samuel Marsh, the youngest of this long-lived andestimable family, was born in 1786 and died in 1872,in the city of New York, where he had resided manyyears and was largely engaged in important transac-tions. He was heavily interested in the Fox andWisconsin Improvement Company, and was presidentof the New York and Erie Railroad Company, beingsucceeded in the latter position by his nephew,. ,n$
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