Charles H. Marsh

    Charles H. Marsh, foreman machinist, Ohio & Mississippi shops, Cochran Township, is a native of Dearborn County, Indiana, born December 9, 1845, and received a good common school education. His parents, Zachariah and Mary (Decker) Marsh, were natives of Ohio, and New York. He followed the river as mate and captain.

    Charles went to his trade in 1864, in the Ohio & Mississippi shops at Cochran. In June, 1883, he was promoted to foreman, and has worked in the same shop since 1864. He was married May 22, 1879, to Miss Alice A. Forsythe, a native of Illinois, and to them has been born one son, Carl W., March 2, 1880.

     Mr. Marsh served nine months in Company H, Ninety-first Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He is a member of Aurora Lodge No. 51, F. & A. M., also Aurora Chapter No. 13. His estimable wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.