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Marsh, Joseph Franklin (1877-1949)
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History of Ritchie County
by Minnie Kendall Lowther
Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911

Pages 629-630

J. Frank Marsh. — In casting about for a representative from the
Educational field to fill a place in this calendar, we could not
think of a better criterion of the pluck, and the perseverance with
which the sons of this county are endowed, that J. Frank Marsh, who
has by his own effort forged his way up until he now occupies a
high rank among the young educators of the state.

Mr. Marsh is the son of the late Jefferson, and Mrs. Angelina
Cunningham Marsh, of Harrisville. He was born on a farm near the
little town of Tollgate, on January 29, 1877, and, like nearly all
of the other members of this department, entered the ranks of the
teacher, at an early age. For seven years, he taught in the rural
districts of his native county; was principal of the Cairo school
for one year, and at Harrisville, for three years; was graduated
from the Wesleyan University at Buckhannon in the class of 1901,
and from the State University, at Morgantown in the A. B. degree in
1907, and now has his A. M. degree almost completed. He served as
Principal of the Fairmont High school in 1908-9; resigning to
accept his present position at the head of the State Department of
Examinations and Teachers' Institutes, at Charleston.

He has been identified among the Institute instructors for several
years, and is now the President of the "School Men's Council" of
West Virginia, and is a member of the cooperative committee of the
National Educational Association from this state.

He is the youngest member of this department and the only one that
still has his life partner to select.

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From Death Certificate, Mercer County, WV #19980
FULL-NAME: Joseph Franklin Marsh
BIRTH-DATE: January 29, 1877
BIRTH-PLACE: Ritchie Co., W.Va.
DEATH-DATE: January 15, 1949 (at age 71y-11m-14d)
DEATH-PLACE: Bluefield San., Bluefield, Mercer County, WV
MARITAL-STATUS: Married
OCCUPATION: Past President Concord College
FATHER: Jefferson Marsh
MOTHER: Angelina Cunningham
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Heart failure & broncho pneumonia
INFORMANT: Mrs. Franklin Marsh (of Athens, West Va.)
BURIAL: Resthaven Park Cemetery

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