Erie Railroad Biography - Joshua Marther


Joshua Marther

JOSHUA MARTHER, Rochester, New York. (Deceased.)
Joshua Marther was born in Sheldon, Monroe County, New York, on June 10, 1840, being the son of A. Marther, a workman in the Erie shops at Buffalo. Mr. Marther secured a good common school education and began his railroad career in May, 1860, as a fireman on the Buffalo Division of the Erie, being promoted to engineer three years later in the fall of 1863. He ran on the Buffalo Division until 1872, when he was transferred to the Rochester Division, where he continued to run until 1894, when he took sick. He was incapacitated from running from that time until his death, which occurred on March 3, 1899. He was a Christian and a consistent member of the Second Baptist church of Rochester for a number of years. He was a member of Division No. 15. B. of L. E., and is highly spoken of by his fellow employes, both as a man of high principles and an engineer of merit.

On December 19, 1865, he was married to Miss Hattie A. Eaton, daughter of Orville B. Eaton, a railroad contractor. Mrs. Marther survives her husband and resides with Mr. Marther's sister, Mrs. Godfrey, at 793 Prospect avenue, in Buffalo.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.



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