Elias Marsh was the son of a doctor of the same name in Paterson NJ.
After graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
he traveled west to St. Louis. When the war began, he was commissioned in
the 3rd New Jersey Militia on April 30, 1861. After this 3 month enlistment,
he qualified for the US Volunteer Medical Corps and rose quickly through
the ranks. In an obituary, he is heralded as the "Man who stopped the war";
he was Appomattox when Grant and Lee were meeting. Grant sent out orders
to notify all the units still fighting, to cease fire. Unfortunately, no one had a
fresh horse, so Marsh carried the orders. After the war, he remained in the Army
serving as Medical Director at West Point for a time and in California.
He returned to New Jersey in 1870, married and had four children. He had
a successful medical practice in Paterson NJ. After retiring, he worked for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as medical director and developed
life tables which were used for decades after and even won him a gold medal
at a Paris exposition. He died August 3, 1908, a day before his 73rd birthday.
He is buried with four generations of Marsh doctors.
After graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
he traveled west to St. Louis. When the war began, he was commissioned in
the 3rd New Jersey Militia on April 30, 1861. After this 3 month enlistment,
he qualified for the US Volunteer Medical Corps and rose quickly through
the ranks. In an obituary, he is heralded as the "Man who stopped the war";
he was Appomattox when Grant and Lee were meeting. Grant sent out orders
to notify all the units still fighting, to cease fire. Unfortunately, no one had a
fresh horse, so Marsh carried the orders. After the war, he remained in the Army
serving as Medical Director at West Point for a time and in California.
He returned to New Jersey in 1870, married and had four children. He had
a successful medical practice in Paterson NJ. After retiring, he worked for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as medical director and developed
life tables which were used for decades after and even won him a gold medal
at a Paris exposition. He died August 3, 1908, a day before his 73rd birthday.
He is buried with four generations of Marsh doctors.
Elias Marsh was the son of a doctor of the same name in Paterson NJ.
After graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
he traveled west to St. Louis. When the war began, he was commissioned in
the 3rd New Jersey Militia on April 30, 1861. After this 3 month enlistment,
he qualified for the US Volunteer Medical Corps and rose quickly through
the ranks. In an obituary, he is heralded as the "Man who stopped the war";
he was Appomattox when Grant and Lee were meeting. Grant sent out orders
to notify all the units still fighting, to cease fire. Unfortunately, no one had a
fresh horse, so Marsh carried the orders. After the war, he remained in the Army
serving as Medical Director at West Point for a time and in California.
He returned to New Jersey in 1870, married and had four children. He had
a successful medical practice in Paterson NJ. After retiring, he worked for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as medical director and developed
life tables which were used for decades after and even won him a gold medal
at a Paris exposition. He died August 3, 1908, a day before his 73rd birthday.
He is buried with four generations of Marsh doctors.
After graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York,
he traveled west to St. Louis. When the war began, he was commissioned in
the 3rd New Jersey Militia on April 30, 1861. After this 3 month enlistment,
he qualified for the US Volunteer Medical Corps and rose quickly through
the ranks. In an obituary, he is heralded as the "Man who stopped the war";
he was Appomattox when Grant and Lee were meeting. Grant sent out orders
to notify all the units still fighting, to cease fire. Unfortunately, no one had a
fresh horse, so Marsh carried the orders. After the war, he remained in the Army
serving as Medical Director at West Point for a time and in California.
He returned to New Jersey in 1870, married and had four children. He had
a successful medical practice in Paterson NJ. After retiring, he worked for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as medical director and developed
life tables which were used for decades after and even won him a gold medal
at a Paris exposition. He died August 3, 1908, a day before his 73rd birthday.
He is buried with four generations of Marsh doctors.
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