Edwin W. Marsh (1824-1901)
Edwin W. Marsh, manufacturer, promoter and wholesale merchant, was born on his father's farm, in Chatham County, North Carolina, December 27, 1824. He spent the decade from 1853 to 1863 as a merchant at Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the latter year he transferred his business to Atlanta and also purchased a controlling interest in the newspaper, Southern Confederacy, of Atlanta, which, upon the Federal occupancy of that place, was transferred to Macon. At the conclusion of the war he resumed business at Atlanta, establishing the first wholesale dry goods house of that city. After it had been developed to mammoth proportions, in 1890 Mr. Marsh retired from business.
He was also influential in founding the Trion, the first cotton factory established in North Georgia. He was further identified with the development of various mineral springs properties and in the advancement of the Chautauqua movement He died October 7, 1901.
biography from:
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians (1917)
by Lucian Lamar Knight pp. 2903-2904
Edwin W. Marsh, manufacturer, promoter and wholesale merchant, was born on his father's farm, in Chatham County, North Carolina, December 27, 1824. He spent the decade from 1853 to 1863 as a merchant at Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the latter year he transferred his business to Atlanta and also purchased a controlling interest in the newspaper, Southern Confederacy, of Atlanta, which, upon the Federal occupancy of that place, was transferred to Macon. At the conclusion of the war he resumed business at Atlanta, establishing the first wholesale dry goods house of that city. After it had been developed to mammoth proportions, in 1890 Mr. Marsh retired from business.
He was also influential in founding the Trion, the first cotton factory established in North Georgia. He was further identified with the development of various mineral springs properties and in the advancement of the Chautauqua movement He died October 7, 1901.
biography from:
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians (1917)
by Lucian Lamar Knight pp. 2903-2904
Edwin W. Marsh (1824-1901)
Edwin W. Marsh, manufacturer, promoter and wholesale merchant, was born on his father's farm, in Chatham County, North Carolina, December 27, 1824. He spent the decade from 1853 to 1863 as a merchant at Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the latter year he transferred his business to Atlanta and also purchased a controlling interest in the newspaper, Southern Confederacy, of Atlanta, which, upon the Federal occupancy of that place, was transferred to Macon. At the conclusion of the war he resumed business at Atlanta, establishing the first wholesale dry goods house of that city. After it had been developed to mammoth proportions, in 1890 Mr. Marsh retired from business.
He was also influential in founding the Trion, the first cotton factory established in North Georgia. He was further identified with the development of various mineral springs properties and in the advancement of the Chautauqua movement He died October 7, 1901.
biography from:
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians (1917)
by Lucian Lamar Knight pp. 2903-2904
Edwin W. Marsh, manufacturer, promoter and wholesale merchant, was born on his father's farm, in Chatham County, North Carolina, December 27, 1824. He spent the decade from 1853 to 1863 as a merchant at Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the latter year he transferred his business to Atlanta and also purchased a controlling interest in the newspaper, Southern Confederacy, of Atlanta, which, upon the Federal occupancy of that place, was transferred to Macon. At the conclusion of the war he resumed business at Atlanta, establishing the first wholesale dry goods house of that city. After it had been developed to mammoth proportions, in 1890 Mr. Marsh retired from business.
He was also influential in founding the Trion, the first cotton factory established in North Georgia. He was further identified with the development of various mineral springs properties and in the advancement of the Chautauqua movement He died October 7, 1901.
biography from:
A standard history of Georgia and Georgians (1917)
by Lucian Lamar Knight pp. 2903-2904
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Edwin W. Marsh married Achsah F. Turner 20 Oct 1868 in Troup County, Georgia
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