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1866, when
a company was formed and the enterprise successfully inaugurated and
completed.
Leaving Chicago he returned to New England, settling in Littleton,
New Hampshire, in 1864; removing to Concord, New Hampshire, in
1879, where the closing years of his life were passed.
Mr. Marsh was married, first, April 4, 1844, to Charlotte D. Bates,
daughter of James Bates of Munson, Massachusetts. The union was
blessed with three children, of whom but one, Mary E. Marsh, survives.
She resides in New York. Mrs. Marsh died August 20, 1852, at the age
of thirty-six years. She was a woman of the finest mental qualities,
highly educated, and very winning in her person and manners.
Mr. Marsh married, second, March 23, 1855, Cornelia H. Hoyt,
daughter of Lumas T. Hoyt of St. Albans, Vermont. Three daughters of
the five children born of this marriage live and reside with their mother
in Concord, New Hampshire. Mr. Marsh died December 30, 1884, in
Concord, and was buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Marsh was to the very last years of his life a public-spirited citizen,
entering heartily into any and every scheme which promised advantage
to his fellow man. His native State was especially dear to him. He was
very fond of his home and of his family. He was a devout Christian,

and scrupulous in every business transaction not to mislead his friends
by his own sanguine anticipations of success. His faith and energy were
such that men yielded respect and confidence to his grandest projects;
and capital was always forthcoming to perfect his ideas.
He had a wonderful memory for dates, events, and statistics, always
maintaining his interest in current events. Aside from the daily
newspapers, his favorite reading was history. The business, prosperity,
and future of this country was an interesting theme of conversation
with him. In business he not only possessed good judgment, wonderful
energy, and enthusiasm, but caution.
He was philosophical in his desire to acquire wealth, knowing its power
to further his plans, however comprehensive and far-reaching. Immense
wealth was never his aim. He was unselfish, thinking ever of others. He
had a strong sense of justice, and desired to do right--not to take
advantage of another. He was generous and large in his ideas. He was
benevolent, giving of his means in a quiet and unostentatious way. He
took a great interest in young men, helping them in their struggles, with
advice, encouragement, and pecuniary assistance. Students, teachers,
helpless women, colored boys and girls, in early life slaves, came in for
a share of his large-hearted bounty, as well as the Church with its many
charities and missions.
Mr. Marsh was a consistent Christian gentleman, for many years
identified with the Congregational denomination. He was a Free Mason;
in politics he was an anti-slavery Whig, and later a Republican. In
private life he was a kind, generous, and indulgent husband and father,
considerate of those dependent on him, relieving them of every care
and anxiety.
He was a typical New Englander, a founder of institutions, a promoter
of every enterprise beneficial to society.
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BARNABAS BRODT DAVID.
By Rev. J.G. Davis, D.D.
In the early records of the French Protestant Church of New York City,
appears the name of John David, a Huguenot, an emigrant, who
married Elizabeth Whinehart. They settled in Albany, and had eleven
children, of whom only five attained majority. Peter David, the sixth
child, born March 11, 1764, married Elizabeth Caldwell, born May 24,
1764, the only child of Joseph Caldwell, an officer in the British navy.
They also lived in Albany and had a large family of eleven children;
Barnabas Brodt David, born August 8, 1802, the subject of the
following sketch, was the ninth child and fifth son. On the death of his
mother, which occurred September 17, 1808, the family was widely
scattered, and the lad Barnabas found a home for the next five years
with a family named Truax, in Hamilton Village, New York. At the end
of this period he was taken into the family of an older brother, Noble
Caldwell David, who resided in Peterborough, New York. Of his
previous opportunities of instruction we are not informed, but during
his stay of two years in Peterborough he was permitted to attend school
part of the time. The death of Caldwell David's wife became the
occasion of a third removal, which brought him to Keene, New
Hampshire, into the care of an older sister, Mrs. David Holmes. The
journey was made in the winter, in an open sleigh, without robes, and
being poorly clad, the hardship and exposure were vividly remembered.
He was interested in his studies, and enjoyed the privileges of the
schools in Keene, so far as they were open to the children of