Elihu Francis Marshall (ca. 1794–1840), author, printer, and stationer, was born in Easton, New York. He wrote a popular spelling book that went through numerous editions. Marshall established a book- and stationery store around 1819 in Rochester, New York, and continued the firm until 1834 under various names and with a variety of partners. In 1825 he and two others established the Rochester Album, a newspaper that he published until its 1828 merger with another paper. Marshall served as Rochester’s city treasurer and was an incorporator in 1831 of the Rochester Savings Bank. In the beginning of 1840 he became a publisher of the Rochester New Genesee Farmer and Gardener’s Journal and continued in this role until his death in Rochester later that year (One Hundred Years in the Paper Business, 1819–1919: Being a Brief History of … The Alling & Cory Company [1919], 3–5, 18; William F. Peck, Semi-Centennial History of the City of Rochester [1884], 261, 301, 362, 470; Frederick Follett, History of the Press of Western New-York [1847], 47, 49; Middlebury, Vt., National Standard, 25 Jan. 1820; Concord New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette, 11 Apr. 1820; Saratoga Springs Saratoga Sentinel, 3 Jan., 27 June 1821; Winifred Gregory, ed., American Newspapers, 1821–1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada [1937], 488; Cleveland Western Intelligencer, 21 Sept. 1827; DNA: RG 29, CS, N.Y., Rochester, 1830, 1840; New Genesee Farmer and Gardener’s Journal 1 [1840]: 1, 144; New-York Spectator, 2 Sept. 1840; gravestone inscription in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester).

Marshall sent similar letters covering the same enclosure to John Adams on 16 Feb. 1820 and to James Madison on 23 Feb. 1820 (MHi: Adams Papers; Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 2:18).