Mary Yearsby and the Teagues of Ruardean (General)

by jimashton , Tuesday, February 05, 2008, 05:49 (6140 days ago) @ maurice

Hi Maurice

The business accumen and the disputes with large companies must run in the family, George Teague's great grandson Hiram Marfell, son of Edmund emigrated to USA in the 1870's. I have a copy of his biography published by the Denver PB. It starts off "Hiram MARFELL, who is a successful mine operator and is the owner of valuable coal lands about two and a-half miles south of Erie, Weld County" the report runs to 1.5 pages of A4. The person I received it from has added - "NOTE: This biography was compiled from interviews with Hiram and therefore may have been embellished somewhat". One of Hiram's disputes was with the Union Pacific Railway - US Supreme Court, Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Goodridge & Marfell, coal merchants, 149 US 680 (1893) May 15, 1893
In this case the railway is being sued for "unjust discrimination in freight costs." The plaintiffs won a settlement of $5,184.30 but the railway appealed the verdict. We have no further information at this time.

i would be happy to email the Biography to anyone interested, if you use the link to contact me.

I visited Colorado in September 2001 (having been to the top of the World trade Center, New York earlier) but did not know any of this information at the time. I have since received pictures of Marfell Court & Marfell Drive road signs in Erie Colorado.

One interesting thing about Hiram is that his birth was registered twice at both Ross & Westbury, I have copies of both certificates.

Jim Ashton