Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York)

Management

• George W. Peirce was secretary and treasurer of the company. Peirce was also secretary of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company in 1893.
• John Owen Marsh, born March 21, 1829, in McLean, died on August 1, 1884, was chosen president of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company since April 1884. But his fortune as president of the company did not last long. An excerpt of the Daily Democrat from August 4, 1884, reads:

"ITHACA IN MOURNING. Death of the Well-Known Merchant, John O. Marsh:
…. Last April, Mr. Marsh became a member of the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company, and was at once elected its president. About four weeks ago, he started west on business connected with the affairs of the company, intending to be gone five or six weeks. He went first to Denver, Colorado, and after transacting some business there; continued his journey to Arizona Territory, where the property of the Golden Fleece Company is situated. It is supposed that he went first to Phoenix, Arizona Territory, and from there accompanied by Mr. S. F. Mack, the company's superintendent of mines, to Cave Creek, the location of the company's property. He then returned to Phoenix, having written one letter home meantime. Last Thursday, Mr. D. E. Marsh received a telegram from S. F. Mack, saying that Mr. Marsh was quite sick with fever but not considered dangerous, and that he was having good care. Another telegram the next day stated that the fever was typhoid, and the patient in a critical condition. Saturday morning a still more disheartening message was received, followed by another at three o'clock in the afternoon with the sad tidings that Mr. Marsh commenced sinking at ten o'clock last Friday night and died at midnight. …"

• Henry Monell was superintendent of the company, very probably until 1883, and was a good mineralogist who had prospected from Alaska to Mexico. Henry Monell had two brothers, Ira and Peter B. Monell, the last of whom resided in Montrose, Colorado. Ira and Henry Monell, both unmarried, were residents of Sugar Loaf, Colorado. Mr. Monell played an important role in the development of the mining activities in Colorado.
• Thomas Blake Campbell, was an architect, contractor and builder of the Memorial Chapel, Franklin Hall, Armory Hall, Morse Hall, Gymnasium Annex, Sibley College, and the Zeta Psi and Alpha Delta Phi Chapter Houses, at Cornell University, was named to be a director of the company.
• Stephen F. Mack, superintendent of the Golden Fleece Mining Company. He probably held this position after the resignation of Mr. Morell.

"BACK FROM ARIZONA. Mr. Mack Returns with Particulars of Mr. Marsh's Death:
Mr. Stephen Mack, superintendent of the Golden Fleece Mining Company, and who was with the late John O. Marsh, when that gentleman died, one week ago to-day, arrived in town last evening. This morning he was immediately besieged by a host of inquiring friends who were anxious to learn further details concerning the death of our lamented fellow citizen. A DEMOCRAT representative called upon Mr. Mack at his residence on Green Street, and learned the following facts from him. When Mr. Marsh arrived in Arizona he was much wearied by the long, tedious journey, and the slight symptoms of illness which he then displayed were attributed to this cause. His sickness, however, increased so long before it developed into typhoid fever, the details and sad result of which have already been published. It is not necessary to give the particulars of the long days and sleepless nights that preceded the termination of the sad affair; it is sufficient to say that Mr. Mack affirms the statement that everything within the power of skillful medical attention and careful nursing was done to relieve the sufferer. In regard to the remains of the deceased, Mr. Mack says that it will be impossible to remove them to Ithaca until cold weather, for the frontier village where Mr. Marsh died is utterly void of those improved undertaking appliances for the preservation of remains so common in the east rapidly that it was not. When asked as to the prospects of the mining company which he represented, and the stock of which is largely owned by Ithaca gentlemen, Mr. Mack did not feel at liberty to talk upon that subject, although he said that he felt satisfied that they had a good claim. Mr. Mack left Arizona Sunday morning."

Golden Fleece Gold & Silver Mining Company, Nevada