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DEATH OF A PROMISING YOUNG MAN.—It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. William Marshall, eldest son of Mr. James Marshall (and brother of our esteemed and talented correspondent) of this place, which sad event took place at his residence, 141, Sloane-street, Chelsea, London, on the 22nd ult., at the age of 38 years. The deceased worked with his father as a shoemaker till the age of 28, but for three or four years previous to his attaining that age, although having to labor at his trade early and late, and without the advantages of scholastic training, he succeeded, by praiseworthy perseverance and close application to study, in acquiring a proficiency in mensuration and geometry, and fitting himself for the duties of a land surveyor’s office. He left the home of his birth in the autumn of 1852, and after encountering many trials and disappointments, obtained a situation at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, where he married. His employer at Dewsbury having given up business and gone to Australia, he was appointed surveyor to the South Yorkshire Railway Company at Rotherham. After remaining three years at Rotherham he left for London, where, shortly after his arrival, he had the misfortune to lose his wife. He next obtained employment in a surveyor’s office at Westminster, where he only remained a few weeks, having received an appointment in the offices of Messrs. Kelk. Messrs. Kelk and Lucas are famous as the contractors for the erection of the Great International Exhibition, and Mr. Marshall was selected by them to set out the ground plan of that great world’s emporium, where he was one of the principals during the progress of the works. He received the highest eulogiums from the commissioners and contractors, and the greatest esteem and respect from the hundreds employed on that great work. About four weeks ago he was engaged in surveying a railroad in Gloucestershire, when feeling himself a little indisposed he returned to London, thinking that quietude and rest would soon restore him to health, but his illness so rapidly increased that human skill was of no avail, and death terminated his sufferings, and at the same time his aspirations and noble exertions to arrive at perfection in his profession as a surveyor. Mr. Marshall was a member of the loyal ‟Pride of the Valley” Lodge of M.U. Odd Fellows of Petersfield. He has left a young widow, to whom he was married only last spring, and two small children, to lament his early death. The short but useful career of the deceased is worthy the imitation of all aspiring young men. Mr. Marshall saw so impassable barriers, although but a humble shoemaker in our little village, to his progress in knowledge; his watchword was excelsior, and by perseverance he attained the highly respectable position of a first-class land surveyor. Requiescat in pace.
Ancestry shows Register of Burials in West of London and Westminster Cemetery, Earl's Court, Old Brompton.
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