Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Marsh, Frank E 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County 

FRANK E. MARSH, a resident of Joliet, is engaged in the grain and coal 
business at Plainfield as a member of the firm of Marsh & Wood. He was born in 
Joliet June 27, 1849, a son of H. N. Marsh, elsewhere represented in this 
work. His education was obtained in local public schools and Chicago Academy. 
His first business was in connection with railroading. After two months of 
work as a substitute he was given the position of ticket agent and operator in 
the Joliet office of the Rock Island Railroad, his father at the time being 
freight agent for the same road. The position was one of responsibility, but, 
although he was quite young, he proved himself fully equal to the demands made 
upon him. He remained with the company for six years, leaving in 1874 in order 
to embark in the grain business with Mr. Carpenter as a partner. In 1879 
another partner was taken into the firm, the title of which then became 
Carpenter, Marsh & Speer. By the retirement of Mr. Carpenter in 1881 the name 
was changed to Marsh  & Speer, and as such continued until 1886.

Forming a partnership with Milton R. Wood in 1886, the subject of this sketch 
engaged in the grain business in Plainfield, where he built the elevator and 
has since had charge of the same, his partner living in Chicago. In 1888 the 
firm built an elevator at Normantown, three miles northwest of Plainfield, and 
this they operated until the summer of 1899, when they sold it. They have 
built an elevator at Wolfs Crossing, six miles northwest of Plainfield, which 
they operate.

In national politics Mr. Marsh is a Republican, but is inclined to be 
independent in local matters. For four terms of two years each he was alderman 
from the fourth ward of Joliet, and for three years he held the office of 
school inspector. In 1873 he married Miss Kate Richmond, of Joliet, who died 
in 1879. Of the three children born to this union, one, Kate, died in infancy. 
The older son, H. Richmond Marsh, M. D., a graduate of the New York 
Homeopathic College, has since 1896 been employed as a government teacher and 
medical missionary at Point Barrow, Alaska. The second son, Loren W., 
represents the Luxfer Prism Company in Boston, Mass. In 1882 Mr.  Marsh 
married Miss Ida Pierce, of Greenfield, Mass., and one son survives her, Ralph 
L. The present wife of our subject bore the maiden name of Jessie Gaskell and 
was born in Seward Township, Kendall County.

As a business man Mr. Marsh is careful and active, full of life and energy, 
and by good management and perseverance he has placed himself in the front 
ranks of the successful business men of the county.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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