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MARSHALL, the son of Thomas and Phebe Marshall, was born October 6, 1835, at
Andover, Massachusetts. His studies in preparation for college were pursued at Andover,
Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Northfield, New Hampshire, and he first entered Oberlin
College, Ohio, but left for Williams, joining our Class during Junior year, 1861-62. He was
a member of the 'Technian Literary Society, and one of the ushers on our Class Day, July,
1863. After graduation, Marshall entered the Episcopal Seminary at West Philadelphia, and
later removed to the General Theological Seminary, New York City, where he was graduated in 1866. This same year he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Potter, and became
an assistant to Rev. Dr. Lawrence, rector of the Church of Holy Communion, New York
City. In 1867, he took priest's orders at the hands of Bishop Potter, and soon after became
rector of St. John's Church, Northampton, Massachusetts, where he spent five happy years
of service for his Master, when the condition of his health demanded a change. Not long
after leaving Northampton, according to Marshall's account of himself in our 1873 Class
report, he removed to Albany, New York, and became rector of the Church of Holy Innocents, in that city. But Marshall's continued poor health necessitated a still more
radical change of climate. He gave up his work in Albany and went to Minnesota, seeking
health and a new field of labor by entering the missionary service of the Episcopal Church.
Upon the recovery of his health to such a degree as to warrant his assuming full charge of
a parish, Marshall took position as minister in charge of St. Thomas's Church,
Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, and was about to become its rector when he died suddenly, in 1877, after a
brave struggle with ill health from an obscure disease that baffled medical skill.
Our classmate married, on the 7th day of January, 1873, Miss Hattie Merchant, of
Germantown, Pennsylvania, Bishop Stevens officiating; and they had one child, which died
in infancy.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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