Gravestone is engraved JACOBO MARSH; the dates on the memorial match the birth and death dates of James A. Marsh, who is interred here. "Jacobo" may be a variant or misspelling of "Jacobi", the named used in two memorials honoring Professor Marsh. Ira Allen Chapel, on the campus of the University of Vermont contains a tablet which reads in part :
" In Memoriam
Jacobi Marsh S. T. D.
Universitatis Viridimontanae
Praesidis Et Professoris
In Philosophia Christiana".
The Chapel also contains a memorial window, presented by the University of Vermont Class of 1836, inscribed " In Memoriam, Jacobi Marsh, Presidis, Professoris".
In "Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Issue 2". 1861, the State Geologists wrote that Jame's "... beautiful and chaste memorial-stone is erected by his friends and the alumni of the University of Vermont".
Burlington Independent (Burlington, Vermont) June 4, 1886: "Many professors derive their fame from the college where they serve, but the college in this case derives the greater share of its fame from thef act that he served in it."
Grandson of Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant governor.
Dartmouth College, graduating with highest honors in 1817.
Andover (Massachusetts) Theological Seminary, 1822
Doctor of Divinity, 1824
Lucia and James lived in Hampden, Sydney College, Virginia before returning to Vermont, where James served as President of the University of Vermont from 1826 to 1833. He redesigned the curriculum into four departments -Languages, Political, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and English Literature, making UVM the first school in the country to have a department of English Literature. In 1833, he became Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy.
Lucia passed away in 1824. Jacob and Laura Wheelock married on January 7, 1830 in Burlington [Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) January 8, 1830 and Burlington Town records.] Several sources state that Laura Wheelock and Lucia Wheeler were sisters, suggesting that Laura may have been previously married.
" In Memoriam
Jacobi Marsh S. T. D.
Universitatis Viridimontanae
Praesidis Et Professoris
In Philosophia Christiana".
The Chapel also contains a memorial window, presented by the University of Vermont Class of 1836, inscribed " In Memoriam, Jacobi Marsh, Presidis, Professoris".
In "Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Issue 2". 1861, the State Geologists wrote that Jame's "... beautiful and chaste memorial-stone is erected by his friends and the alumni of the University of Vermont".
Burlington Independent (Burlington, Vermont) June 4, 1886: "Many professors derive their fame from the college where they serve, but the college in this case derives the greater share of its fame from thef act that he served in it."
Grandson of Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant governor.
Dartmouth College, graduating with highest honors in 1817.
Andover (Massachusetts) Theological Seminary, 1822
Doctor of Divinity, 1824
Lucia and James lived in Hampden, Sydney College, Virginia before returning to Vermont, where James served as President of the University of Vermont from 1826 to 1833. He redesigned the curriculum into four departments -Languages, Political, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and English Literature, making UVM the first school in the country to have a department of English Literature. In 1833, he became Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy.
Lucia passed away in 1824. Jacob and Laura Wheelock married on January 7, 1830 in Burlington [Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) January 8, 1830 and Burlington Town records.] Several sources state that Laura Wheelock and Lucia Wheeler were sisters, suggesting that Laura may have been previously married.
Gravestone is engraved JACOBO MARSH; the dates on the memorial match the birth and death dates of James A. Marsh, who is interred here. "Jacobo" may be a variant or misspelling of "Jacobi", the named used in two memorials honoring Professor Marsh. Ira Allen Chapel, on the campus of the University of Vermont contains a tablet which reads in part :
" In Memoriam
Jacobi Marsh S. T. D.
Universitatis Viridimontanae
Praesidis Et Professoris
In Philosophia Christiana".
The Chapel also contains a memorial window, presented by the University of Vermont Class of 1836, inscribed " In Memoriam, Jacobi Marsh, Presidis, Professoris".
In "Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Issue 2". 1861, the State Geologists wrote that Jame's "... beautiful and chaste memorial-stone is erected by his friends and the alumni of the University of Vermont".
Burlington Independent (Burlington, Vermont) June 4, 1886: "Many professors derive their fame from the college where they serve, but the college in this case derives the greater share of its fame from thef act that he served in it."
Grandson of Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant governor.
Dartmouth College, graduating with highest honors in 1817.
Andover (Massachusetts) Theological Seminary, 1822
Doctor of Divinity, 1824
Lucia and James lived in Hampden, Sydney College, Virginia before returning to Vermont, where James served as President of the University of Vermont from 1826 to 1833. He redesigned the curriculum into four departments -Languages, Political, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and English Literature, making UVM the first school in the country to have a department of English Literature. In 1833, he became Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy.
Lucia passed away in 1824. Jacob and Laura Wheelock married on January 7, 1830 in Burlington [Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) January 8, 1830 and Burlington Town records.] Several sources state that Laura Wheelock and Lucia Wheeler were sisters, suggesting that Laura may have been previously married.
" In Memoriam
Jacobi Marsh S. T. D.
Universitatis Viridimontanae
Praesidis Et Professoris
In Philosophia Christiana".
The Chapel also contains a memorial window, presented by the University of Vermont Class of 1836, inscribed " In Memoriam, Jacobi Marsh, Presidis, Professoris".
In "Report on the Geology of Vermont: Descriptive, Theoretical, Economical, and Scenographical, Issue 2". 1861, the State Geologists wrote that Jame's "... beautiful and chaste memorial-stone is erected by his friends and the alumni of the University of Vermont".
Burlington Independent (Burlington, Vermont) June 4, 1886: "Many professors derive their fame from the college where they serve, but the college in this case derives the greater share of its fame from thef act that he served in it."
Grandson of Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant governor.
Dartmouth College, graduating with highest honors in 1817.
Andover (Massachusetts) Theological Seminary, 1822
Doctor of Divinity, 1824
Lucia and James lived in Hampden, Sydney College, Virginia before returning to Vermont, where James served as President of the University of Vermont from 1826 to 1833. He redesigned the curriculum into four departments -Languages, Political, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, and English Literature, making UVM the first school in the country to have a department of English Literature. In 1833, he became Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy.
Lucia passed away in 1824. Jacob and Laura Wheelock married on January 7, 1830 in Burlington [Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) January 8, 1830 and Burlington Town records.] Several sources state that Laura Wheelock and Lucia Wheeler were sisters, suggesting that Laura may have been previously married.
Inscription
JACOBO MARSH
Obit A.D.MDCCCXIII
Vixit Ann. XLVIII
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