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of the Univei-sity of Vermont, 1826-33 ; and pro- fessor of moral and intellectual philosophy, 1833- 42. He received the degree of D.D. from Colum- bia in 1830 and from Amherst in 1833. He was married, Oct. 14, 1824, to Lucia, daughter of John Wheelock. Slie died Aug. 18, 1828, and he was married sec- ondly, Jan. 1, 1835, to Laura, sister of his deceasedwife. He contributed a series of papers on " Popular Education " to the Vermont Chronicle under the pen name "Philopolis" (1829^ ; translated from the German Herder's "Spirit of Hebrew Poetry" (1833); and is the author of Preliminary Essay to Coleridge's " Aids to Reflection " (1829), Selections from the* Old Eng- lish Writers on Practical Tlieology (1830). Joseph Torrey, University of Vermont, published " Me- moir and Remains of Rev. Dr. Marsh " (1843). He died in Colchester, Vt., July 3, 1842.

MARSH, John, temperance advocate, was born in Wetherstield, Conn., April 2, 1788 ; son of the Rev. Jolm and Anne (Grant) Marsh ; grand- son of David and Mary (Moody) Marsh, and of Col. Ebenezer Grant of East Windsor, Conn., and a descendant of George Marsh, who came from England and settled in Hingham, Mass., about 1635. He was prepared for college under Dr. Azel Backus of Bethlehem, Conn. ; was graduated at Yale in 1804 ; became a Congregational minis- ter in 1809, and was pastor of the Congregationa- church in Haddam, Conn., 1818-33. He was a founder and officer of the county temperance society, 1828-33; secretary of the Connecticut Temi)erance society, 1829-33 ; removed to Phila- delphia, where he served as agent of the Penn- sylvania State Temperance society, 1833-65 ; was secretary of the American Temperance union and editor of its journal in Philadelphia, 1836-37, and in New York city, 1837-65. Of one of his best known temperance lectures *' Putnam and His Wolf " (1829). over 150,000 copies were sold. He represented the American Temperance union at the WorUl's Temperance convention in London, England, in 1846. He became financial agent and raised $10,000 towards the erection of a new building for the Yale Theological seminary in 1868. He received the degree D.D. from Jeffer- son college. Pa., in 1852. He is the author of : ; Epitome of Ecclesiastical History (1838); Half- Century Tribute to the Canseof Temperance (ISiO) ; Temperance Speaker (1860) : Temperance Recol- lections (1866); Pi'ayers from Plymouth Pulpit (1867). He die I in Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 4, 1868. MARSH, Joseph, pioneer, wns born in Leb- anon, t'onn., Jan. 12. 1726 ; son of Ensign Joseph and Mercy (Bill) Marsh : grandson of Capt. Joseph and Hannah Marsh, and a descendant of John

(Newtown, ^Ia.ss., 1635) and Anne (Webster) Marsh. He was married, Jan. 10, 1750, to Dorothy, daugh- ter of Jeremiah and Mary (Clark) Mason of Con- necticut. With his three brothers and two cous- ins he located in Hartford, Vt., 1772; took up a large tract of land south of the White river and built a mansion. During the controversy over the New Hampshire grants he took the side of New York. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the upper regiment of Cumberland county by New York authority in August, 1775, and colonel in January, 1776. He was a delegate from the county of Cumberland in the Provincial congress at New York in May and July, 1776 ; favored inde- pendent state government ; was a member of the convention that declared New Connecticut an independent state, changed its name to Vermont, and pledged it to resist by force of arms the fleets and armies of Great Britain. He was also a member of the convention that adopted an inde- pendent state constitution, July 3-4, 1777, and in that year at the call of General Schuyler, he with his eldest son took part in the battles of Bennington, Whitehall, Fort Edward and Sandy Hill, and the sum of £40 was offered for his head. He represented Hartford in the first general as- sembly under the independent state constitution in 1778, and again in 1781 and 1782. He was lieutenant-governor of Vermont, 1778-79, and 1787-90. He was chairman of the court of con- fiscation for eastern Vermont in 1778 ; chairman of the committee of safety for a section of Ver- mont, including also the annexed territory from New Hampshire, and chief judge of the Windsor county court, 1787-95. He was offered but refused a township for his unpaid services, and he left a perpetual fund for the support of the church at Hartford. He died at Hartford, Vt., Feb. 9, 1811. MARSH, Luther Rawson, lawyer, was born at Pompey, N.Y., April 4, 1813; son of Luther and Emma (Rawson) Marsh ; grandson of Capt. Elisha Marsh, and of Dr. Thomas Hooker Raw- son, and a descendant of John and Anne (Webster) Marsh, and of the Rev. Grindal and Dorothy (Chauncey) Rawson. He was a student at Pom- pey academy, and at the American Literary, Scientific and Military academy of Capt. Alden Partridge at Middletown, Conn., where he was graduated in 1829. He worked in a country store, studied law, was admitted to the bar at Albany, N.Y., in 1836, and took a position in the office of Henry R. Storrs in New York city. He returned to Utica in 1839, and practised in the office of Justus H. Rathbone and Samuel Lyman until 1844. This firm served as counsel for the New York & Lake Erie railway company, and Mr. Marsh spent two winters in personally examining titles and trying contestpd cases for the company. He returned to New York city* in 1844, and