Marsh, James, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born July 19, 1794, at Hartford, Vt. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817; spent some years in An- dover Theological Seminary; was ordained Oct. 12, 1824, and during the same month entered upon the duties of a professorship in Hampden Sydney College, Va. In 1826 he was elected president of the University of Ver- mont, which position he resigned in 1833, but continued as professor of moral and intellectual philosophj' until 1840. He died at Colchester, Vt., July 3, 1842. Dr. Marsh assisted in translating the work of Bellermann on the Geography of the Scriptures (1822). He published a Preliminary Essay to Coleridge's "Aids to Reflection" (1828): — /Selections from the Old English Wrifeis on Practical Theology: — his Inaugural Address at Bur- lington (1826): — a Treatise on Eloquence: — Translation of Herder's Work on Hebreiv Poetry: — and Translation of Hegeivisch's Chronology. A memoir of his life, with selections from his writings, was published by professor Torrey (1843, 8vo; 2d ed. 1845). See North Am. Per. xxiv, 470 ; Duyckinck, Cyclop. Am. Lit. ii, 130; Sprague, Annals, ii, 692 ; Drake, Diet. Am. Biog. s. v.
Marsh, John (1), D.D., a Congregational minister, was born Nov. 2, 1742 (O. S.), at Haverhill, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1761 ; entered the min- istry in 1765; was appointed tutor at Harvard in 1771 ; remained there two years, and was ordained January, 1774, pastor of the First Church, Wethersfield, Conn., where he died, Sept. 13, 1821. He published a few oc- casional Sermons. — Sprague, Annals, i, 619.
Marsh, John (2), D.D., son of the preceding, an eminent American divine, who enjoyed a national repu- tation from his connection, almost from its origin, with the great temperance reform of the last half century, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., April 2, 1788 ; grad- uated at Yale College, and in 1818 was settled as a Con- gregational pastor in Haddam, Conn. He at once iden- tilieil himself -with the cause he so abh' served for half a generation, and attracted public attention by the ad- dress wliich he delivered before the AVindham County Temperance Society in Pomfret, Conn., in 1829. That year a state society had been formed, of which Jere- miah Day, of Yale College, was the president, and Mr. Marsh the secretary and general agent, and, to do effi- cient service for the society, the latter ottered his services to the county associations as far as he could in connection with his pastoral labor. His address in Pomfret, styled '• Putnam and his Wolf," ran a parallel between general I 'ut nam's well-known pursuit of the wolf in his den in that town and the temperance crusade against a more terrible monster. The address was afterwards printed, and in a short period 150,000 copies were disposed of. The American Tract Soci(Tty finally placed it upon its list. See Tejiperanxe Reform. In 1833 Dr. Marsh was invited to leave his charge and become an agent of the society in Philadelphia; and by the advice of his friends he vielded himself to what was at that
time a most laborious and self-denying mission. Three years later he removed to New York as secretary of the American Temperance Union, and editor of its organ and of its publications, and remained until 1865, when the society was reorganized, and a change was made in its ofhcers. Although full of years, he allowed himself no rest from his labors, preaching coijstantly, lecturing upon his life theme, and offering himself to every good word and work. His last efforts were put forth in be- half of an endowment of the Yale Theological Seminary. He had already raised $10,000, and was fuU of encour- agement in reference to the results of his endeavors. His labors ended only with his life. He died Aug. 4, 1868. "Few men have been more respected or more widelj' known throughout the comitry than Dr, Marsh. Enthusiastic in his mission, catholic in spirit, welcoming every new laborer in the great field, and readily seizing upon each new phase of the temperance reformation, his name will remain inseparably connected with the his- tory of the cause in all future time. He was a good man, shedding a benign influence by his devoted life wherever he moved" (A^. Y. Christian A dvocnte, August, 1868). Besides editing The Temperance Journal, Dr. Marsh was the author of several popular works; among others, of a well-known Epitome of Ecclesiastical His- tory (N. Y., A. S. Barnes and Co.) ; of a valuable hand- book entitled Temperance Recollections — Ichors, De- feats, Triumphs, an autobiography (N. Y. 1866, 12mo), " a rich text-book for every man who would plead the cause of temperance ;" etc. See the (A'. Y.) Christian Advocate, August, 1868; the Eclectic Magazine, 1866 (June), p. 773. (J.H.W.)
Marsh, Narcissus, D.D., a learned Irish prelate, was born at Hannington, near llighworth, in Wiltshire, in 1638; was educated at Magdalen CoUege, Oxford, and in 1668 became fellow of Exeter College. The de- gree of D.D. he received in 1671 ; some time previous he was made chaplain to the bishop of Exeter, and later to chancellor Hyde, earl of Clarendon. In 1673 he -was appointed principal of St. Alban's Hall, Oxford, and in 1678 provost of Dublin College. In 1683 he became bishop of Leighlin and Ferns; archbishop of Cashel in 1090, of Dublin in 1694, and of Armagh in 1703. He died Nov. 2, 1713. Dr. ]\Iarsh was a pious and noble soul. He fountled an almshouse at Drogheda for poor widows of clergymen, and provided for their support. He likewise repaired, at his own expense, many de- cayed churches within his diocese, and bought in sev- eral impropriations, which he restored to the Church. He also gave to the Bodleian Library a great number of MSS. ill the Oriental languages, chietly purchased out of (iolius's collection. He was a very learned and accomi)lislied man. Besides sacreil and profane litera- ture, he had applied himself to mathematics and natural philosophy; he was deep in the knowledge of languages, especially the Oriental ; he was also skilled in music, the practice as well as the theorj*. He published Man- uductio ad logicam, written by Philip de Trieu; to which he added the Greek text of Aristotle, and some tables and schemes, and Gassendus's small tract De demonstratione, which he illustrated with notes (Oxon. 1678): — Institutiones logicw, in usum juventutis academi- cm (Dublin, 1681): — An Introductory Essay to the Doc- trine of Sounds (published in the " I'hilosophical Trans- actions" of the lioyal Society of London) : — .1 Charge to his Clergy of the Diocese of Dublin (1694, 4to). See Hook, Eccles. Biog. vol. vii, s. v. ; Biog. Brit. s. v. ; Wood, A then. Oxon. vol. ii (see Index) ; Ware's Ireland, s. v.; ^YUibone, Diet. Brit, and A mer. A uth. s. v. (J. H. W.)