Please NOTE: Our society is implementing a new registration procedure for security reasons to join our monthly meetings on Zoom. All members or visitors who plan attending on Zoom only will need to Register in Advance for our June Meeting below! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom information. Please download speaker handouts below!
All members or visitors planning on attending in person do NOT need to register, but just attend in person as noted below!
Our November program with speaker Lynn Alex will be a hybrid program on November 21 at 10 am in the Foxtail 2 Room at the Fort Collins Senior Center (1400 Raintree Drive in Fort Collins) See map below!
Program Description
This presentation reconstructs the life and career of Thomas Richmond Marshall, whose journey reflects the westward movement of both people and railroads in nineteenth-century America. Born in New England, Marshall served as a Union soldier during the Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Battle of Chickamauga. After the war he entered the rapidly expanding railroad industry, beginning in Ohio in the 1870s and later Illinois before continuing westward to Iowa. There he became the first station agent in Wyoming, Iowa, a position he held for 28 years as the railroad helped shape the development of the town and the surrounding region. Marshall’s career is reconstructed through a combination of historical records and rare family materials, including original drawings, documents, and artifacts preserved by his great-granddaughter Kay Saelens of Loveland, Colorado.
Speaker Profile
Lynn M. Alex is past secretary of the Larimer County Genealogical Society and currently helps guide both the Irish and German Study Groups. Obsessively researching her own family history, she assists others at the Loveland Library and via the LCGS Facebook page. She is a retired archaeologist.
Fort Collins Senior Center Map
Map for Fort Collins Senior Center
ZOOM REGISTRATION
Registration Reminder: Members and Visitors are welcome to join us on Zoom, but are required to Register in Advance for our June Meeting by clicking on this underlined link! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom information.
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