Presbyterian clergyman, missionary, b. Danville, Vt. He graduated from Dartmouth College (1826) and Andover Theological Seminary (1829). In 1830 he moved to Wisconsin as missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, who had moved west from New York in 1821. He lived with the Indians at their settlement near Green Bay, and in 1834 moved with them to a new location on the east shore of Lake Winnebago. Marsh's annual reports to his sponsors (1831-1848) provide a rich source of information on this tribe's life in Wisconsin, and he was also instrumental in organizing the Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee (1837) and in Green Bay (1838). After 1848 he carried on his missionary activities among the white settlers in Wisconsin and traveled extensively through-out the eastern part of the state, organizing churches at Fairfield, Oshkosh, Byron, and Berlin. He made Waupaca his headquarters, and from 1848 to 1856 served as pastor-at-large to a number of parishes. He retired from the ministry in 1856, and lived in Waupaca until his death. Colls. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 15 (1900); Early Presbyterianism in Wis., Wis. Synod. [Waukesha? Wis., 1951]; J. N. Davidson, In Unnamed Wis. (Milwaukee, 1895); C. Marsh Papers.

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