Walter Randall Marsh

     Walter Randall Marsh was born on 16 January 1867 at Haverhill, Essex Co, Massachusetts.¹ He married Lillian Blanche Parker on 29 December 1896 at Exeter, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire.² Walter Randall Marsh married Marion Belle Reid, daughter of Harris Hall Reid and Roberta Pauline Lane, in 1941.² Walter Randall Marsh died on 23 February 1947 at New York at age 80; Dr. Walter R. Marsh, School Headmaster
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Garden City, L. I., Feb. 23-
Dr. Walter Randall Marsh, headmaster of St. Paul's School here for the last forty years, who was also an author and former president of the Association of Schools of the Middle Atlantic States, died of a heart attack this morning at the school, where he resided. He was treasurer since 1933 of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, and had long been active in lay affairs of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. His age was 79.
Born in Boston, Dr. Marsh received an A. B. Degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of Jena, Germany.
After teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy and the William Penn Charter School, he became headmaster of the Pingry School in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Dr. Marsh with Charles H. Ashton, wrote several mathematical textbooks, among which were elementary algebra, college algebra and plane and spherical trigonometry.
Much of his time was devoted to activities of the Episcopal Church.
In 1910 and 1913 he was a provisional deputy to the Church's general convention to which he was a deputy in 1916, 1919, 1934 and 1940.
His first wife, the former Miss Lillian Parker, died in 1928. He leaves a widow, Mrs. Marion Reid-Marsh, Principal of the Cathedral School of St. Mary here and two daughters, Mrs. Lucian Waddell of Peddle School, Highstown, New Jersey, and Mrs. Kenneth Dolbeare of this village.² He was buried on 25 February 1947 at Newtonville, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts; DR. W. R. MARSH SERVICE
800 Attend Rites in Cathedral-Bishop DeWolfe Presides

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Garden City, L. I. Feb. 25- Eight hundred persons attended a Funeral Service for Dr. Walter Randall Marsh, headmaster of St. Paul's School here for the last forty years, this afternoon at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. Dr. Marsh died Sunday of a Heart attack. The Right Rev. James P. DeWolfe, Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, who presided, read a eulogy of Dr. Marsh, who had long been active in the lay affairs of the diocese. Burial will take place in Newtonville, Mass.²