librarian
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I was intrigued by this picture and wondered who AJ Marshall was.
This importation came from Great Britain on 1920 and I'm assuming Mr Marshall was a Scot.
Apparently Marshall bought and bred Shorthorns, bulls especially, and exported them, hundreds or thousands going to South America and the U.S. These guys with the calf would have been the ones who got the animals across the seas.
https://books.google.com/books?id=rvNFAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3AQv2ccFBo_SAC&pg=RA1-PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
This was said of Marshall in 1950:
"The largest herd in Europe is carried on by Albert James Marshall, whose
transactions, particularly in the export trade, are on the most extensive ... "
An article from 1958 referred to him as the late AJ Marshall.
From the photo
Four of the men who accompanied Wm. Hatnett's importation and Siamese Princess, the calf born on the ship. From left to right.
Captain James McGregor, J. Pearson, John Holmes, and Mr. Richardson. Captain McGregor is a cousin of A.J. Marshall, the great breeder and exporter
Mr Marshall must have seen a lot of change in the breed over the course of his life. Change in the world also.
This importation came from Great Britain on 1920 and I'm assuming Mr Marshall was a Scot.
Apparently Marshall bought and bred Shorthorns, bulls especially, and exported them, hundreds or thousands going to South America and the U.S. These guys with the calf would have been the ones who got the animals across the seas.
https://books.google.com/books?id=rvNFAQAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3AQv2ccFBo_SAC&pg=RA1-PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false
This was said of Marshall in 1950:
"The largest herd in Europe is carried on by Albert James Marshall, whose
transactions, particularly in the export trade, are on the most extensive ... "
An article from 1958 referred to him as the late AJ Marshall.
From the photo
Four of the men who accompanied Wm. Hatnett's importation and Siamese Princess, the calf born on the ship. From left to right.
Captain James McGregor, J. Pearson, John Holmes, and Mr. Richardson. Captain McGregor is a cousin of A.J. Marshall, the great breeder and exporter
Mr Marshall must have seen a lot of change in the breed over the course of his life. Change in the world also.