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GEORGE W. MARSH. — Among a band of twenty families who left Hingham, Norfolk county, England, in 1633, under the leadership of Rev. Peter Hobort, and who landed at Charlestown, N. H., June 8, 1635, were George Marsh, his wife Elizabeth and their four children. From these, the original founders of the family in America, sprang George W. Marsh, who is a son of Charles A. and Annis D. (Whipple) Marsh, and was born in the town of Portland, Chautauqua county, New York, March 29, 1840. Omitting the long line of lineage from 1635 we will skip one hundred and forty-one years and say that the grandfather of our subject, Issac Marsh, was born in New Hampshire, August 3, 1776. He had a son, Charles A. Marsh (father), who was born at Nashua, N. H., April 15, 1815. The latter came to Chautauqua county in 1831 and located in the town of Portland, where he farmed without intermission until his death, in 1882. Politically Mr. Marsh was a republican. (He married Annis D. Whipple, a daughter of David Whipple, of Richfield, N. Y). Her parents both died when she was three years of age and she was adopted and reared by Samuel Brown of the same place, who came to Chautauqua county and settled in the town of Portland in 1835. She died in 1868, aged fifty-three years. They were the parents of three children, two sons and one daughter.

George W. Marsh was taught practical life upon his father’s farm and learned theoretical knowledge in the district schools. He later took a course at the Fredonia academy, and since 1865 has been engaged in raising grapes. Half of his well-kept farm of fifty acres is a vineyard from which large quantities of grapes are annually gathered. The home is a fine, large two-story frame building which is much better and more ornamental than the average house.

In 1866 he married Lillie La Due, daughter of Joshua La Due, a prominent resident of the town of Portland. They have three children, one son and two daughters: Charles J., Lena, wife of Clarence Arnold, an enterprising and pushing young man of Portland; and Addie L. George W. Marsh is a republican and has held the office of town-clerk and assessor — the latter for nine years, and has been secretary of the Grape-Growers’ association ever since it was organized. Of a stirring and philanthropic disposition Mr. Marsh is one of Portland’s most prominent men.