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Sylvester Marsh (30 September 1803, Campton, New Hampshire - 30 December 1884, Concord, New Hampshire) was the United States engineer who designed and built the Mount Washington Cog Railway. ==Biography== He grew up on a farm, which he worked on, and he attended the common school in the winter. At 19, he left for Boston, where he worked as a farm hand,〔 and in 1826 he established himself there as a provision dealer. In 1828, he was engaged in Ashtabula, Ohio, in supplying Boston and New York City with beef and pork. He settled in Chicago during the winter of 1833/4, and there followed a similar business until 1837, when his accumulations were swept away in the Panic of 1837. He began again in the grain business, and acquired a substantial fortune. Meanwhile, he worked for the advancement of Chicago. He invented many appliances that were incidental to meat packing, especially those having reference to the use of steam. He invented the dried-meal process, and “Marsh's caloric dried meal” was long an article of commerce. In 1855 he moved to Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and moved back to Chicago after five years. He resided a year in Brooklyn, New York, where he was an exporter, sending much of his dried meal product to the West Indies.〔 In 1864 he settled in Littleton, New Hampshire, and after 1879 made Concord, New Hampshire, his residence. In 1844, he married Charlotte Bates, who died in 1850. In 1855, he married Cornelia Hoyt. She and four children survived him.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvester Marsh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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