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Marshall Monroe Kirkman was born on July 10, 1842 on a farm in Morgan County, Illinois, United States, the son of Thomas and Catherine (Sweet) Kirkman.
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Marshall Monroe Kirkman was born on July 10, 1842 on a farm in Morgan County, Illinois, United States, the son of Thomas and Catherine (Sweet) Kirkman.
Kirkman received elementary schooling.
Kirkman entered the employ of the Chicago and North Western Railroad Company in 1856 as a messenger boy on the Chicago-Oshkosh line. He continued with the company until his retirement in 1910, at which time he held the office of vice-president in charge of receipts and disbursements. He was thus connected with the road from almost the beginning of its history. Personally, Kirkman was precise and meticulous, both in appearance and utterance. "Few men so polemic and positive as Mr. Kirkman have so many warm friends and admirers, " wrote a contemporary. His primary interest was railroad finance, particularly the accounting of operating receipts and expenditures. He held the position of auditor of freight accounts as early as 1861, and by 1881 had been promoted to the rank of comptroller of the entire line. This latter office he retained until his retirement, although the name was twice changed prior to 1910.
He was active in advocating the simplification and standardization of railroad accounting, and many of his published works were written with that end in view. He was instrumental in the formation of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers in 1888 and was chairman of a committee of railway accounting officers which worked with representatives of the Interstate Commerce Commission to obtain a greater uniformity in railroad accounting.
Kirkman wrote extensively on the subject of railways. In 1894 he published his most famous work, The Science of Railways (12 volumes, 1894; many later editions). After 1900 his published works were all historical novels, except for A History of Alexander the Great (1913). Possibly the change was due in part to his contact with the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, for he was one of its early sponsors and served for two years on the committee on transportation. His first novel was The Romance of Gilbert Holmes (1900), which dealt with a boy prodigy who knew all of the important men who lived in Illinois, during the thirties and forties, and survived numerous wrecks, attacks, murders, explosions and other harrowing experiences with unblemished character and unshaken nerves. Kirkman's later fiction dealt entirely with the life and times of Alexander the Great, which he described in five novels, two of which he later revised and republished under different titles. His fiction was in no sense excellent, but it was better done than might have been expected in view of his temperament and background.
The most important contribution of Kirkman was his numerous publications. He published many pamphlets and books touching all phases of the railroad business, but emphasizing the financial. Among them he included treatises on interstate commerce, railway disbursements, railway revenue, baggage car traffic, railway service, track accounts, maintenance of railways, rates, legislation, and the handling of supplies. His most pretentious work was "The Science of Railways" (1894). Also of considerable value was his "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers" (1895), which was profusely illustrated.
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Kirkman was the first president of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers.
Kirkman was married to Fannie Lincoln, by whom he had two children.
