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Born 1849
From Souvenir of settlement and progress of Will County, Ill. A review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and commercial history of the United States and of the state of Illinois ... Busin (1884), Genealogical and biographical record of Kendall and Will Counties, Illinois : containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and present (1901), Portrait and biographical album of Will County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and (1890)
Frank E. Marsh, son of H. N. Marsh, born here June 27, 1849, was ticket agent and telegraph operator here from 1868 to 1874, when he and H. S. Carpenter established their grain trade. Subsequently he organized the firm of Marsh & Speer. He was married to Miss Kate Richmond, February 4, 1873.
William Henry Marsh, son of H. N. Marsh, born at Joliet August 15, 1840; enlisted in 13th Hlinois Infantry under Col. Wyman; shared in all the terrible trials of this command, was wounded at Chickasaw Bayou, made prisoner, confined at Jackson, Mississippi, and was found there by Albert Sanger and others. He was sent to the hospital at Quincy, returned to Joliet, but his wounds broke out here, causing his death July 6,
A. 0. Marshall. — See Political Chapter, History of Bar and Directory.
As printed in Souvenir of settlement and progress of Will County, Ill. A review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and commercial history of the United States and of the state of Illinois ... Busin (1884). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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Mr. Marsh was elected Alderman in 188.3, and has since been retained as a nienil.ier of the City Council. The subject of this brief biographical notice is a son of the Hon. II. N. Marsh, one of the representative men of Juliet, whose life history is found on another page in this Ai.r.u.M.
As printed in Portrait and biographical album of Will County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and (1890). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
RANK E. MARSH, a resident of Joliet, is engaged in the grain and coal business at Plainfield as a member of the firm of Marsh & Wood. He was born in Joliet June 27, 1849, a son of H. N. Marsh, elsewhere represented in this work. His education was obtained in local public schools and Chicago Academy. His first business was in connection with railroading. After two months of work as a substitute he was given the position of ticket agent and operator in the Joliet office of the Rock Island Railroad, his father at the time being freight agent for the same road. The position was one of responsibility, but, although he was quite young, he proved himself fully equal to the demands made upon him. He remained with the company for six years, leaving in 1874 in order to embark in the grain business with Mr. Carpenter as a partner. In 1879 another partner was taken into the firm, the title of which then became Carpenter, Marsh & Speer. By the retirement of Mr. Carpenter in 1881 the name was changed to Marsh & Speer, and as such continued until 1886.
Forming a partnership with Milton R. Wood in 1886, the subject of this sketch engaged in the grain business in Plainfield, where he built the elevator and has since had charge of the same, his partner living in Chicago. In 1888 the firm built an elevator at Normantown, three miles northwest of Plainfield, and this they operated until the summer of 1899, when they sold it. They have built an elevator at Wolf’s Crossing, six miles northwest of Plainfield, which they operate.
In national politics Mr. Marsh is a Republican, but is inclined to be independent in local matters. For four terms of two years each he was alderman from the fourth ward of Joliet, and for three years he held the office of school inspector. In 1873 he married Miss Kate Richmond, of Joliet, who died in 1879. Of the three children born to this union, one, Kate, died in infancy. The older son, H. Richmond Marsh, M. D., a graduate of the New York Homeopathic College, has since 1896 been employed as a government teacher and medical missionary at Point Barrow, Alaska. The second son, Loren W., represents the Luxfer Prism Company in Boston, Mass. In 1882 Mr. Marsh married Miss Ida Pierce, of Green field, Mass., and one son survives her, Ralph L. The present wife of our subject bore the maiden name of Jessie Gaskell and was born in Seward Township, Kendall County.
As a business man Mr. Marsh is careful and active, full of life and energy, and by good management and perseverance he has placed himself in the front ranks of the successful business men of the county.
As printed in Genealogical and biographical record of Kendall and Will Counties, Illinois : containing biographies of well known citizens of the past and present (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: H. S. Carpenter (b. 1826)
Their biographies name Frank E. Marsh: William G. Gaskell (b. 1830)
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