BELMONT COUNTY OHIO - BIO: A. H. MARSH (pub 1880)

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 A. H. MARSH was born in Ohio Co., W. Va. in 1824, He migrated to Belmont 
county in 1844. He served an apprenticeship in wagon making in Bellaire. 
In 1847 hestarted a business of his own. For four years he was working in 
Cincinnati and Indianapolis. He married Elizabeth A. JACOBS in 1850. He 
worked in Portsmouth, OH, then in Bridgeport and in 1856 came back to 
Bellaire and started in manufacturing carriages and wagons until 1872. 
Then he bought a farm in Taylor County, W. Va. and lived a year there, 
but sold out and returned to Bellaire and resumed wagon making. Shop is 
at 136 Guernsey street. He has a family of eight children: Newton L., 
Emma C., Ella, Camilla, Mary (deceased), Cassius M., Jessie, and Minnie.

Submitted by: Bonnie Burkhardt
>From "History of Belmont & Jefferson Cos., OH" by J. A. Caldwell, pub. 1880
page 279
Bellaire Bios.