Born: June 1, 1798, Sher­burne, New York.

Died: Ju­ly 14, 1875, Al­ba­ny, New York.

Buried: Vale Cem­e­te­ry, Sche­nec­ta­dy, New York.

Marsh be­gan sing­ing in a choir at age sev­en, and at age 16 start­ed stu­dy­ing mu­sic. By 19, he was teach­ing in lo­cal sing­ing schools; around then, he met Thomas Hastings, who at the time was teach­ing in Ge­ne­va, New York. By 1837, Marsh was pub­lish­ing the Am­ster­dam, New York, news­pa­per The Intelligencer (later re­named to The Recorder); up­on re­turn­ing to Sher­burne, he found­ed the Sher­burne News. Marsh taught choirs and child­ren for near­ly 30 years around Al­ba­ny, and served as a Sun­day school su­per­in­ten­dent.

Sources

Music

1. Martyn