tinamarie7@juno.com wrote: > Bonnie, > Could you please shed a little light on MARSH, A. H.? Thank you so > much for your time and help. I really appreciate it. Tina > Tina, From "History of Belmont & Jefferson Cos., OH" by J. A. Caldwell, pub. 1880 Bellaire Bios. A. H. MARSH was born in Ohio Co., WV in 1824, He migrated to Belmont Co. in 1844. He served an apprenticeship in wagon making in Bellaire. In 1847 he started a business of his own. For four years he was working in Cincinnati and Indianapolis. He married Elizabeth A. JACOBS in 1850. He worked in Portsmouth, OH, then in Bridgeport and in 1856 came back to Bellaire and started in manufacturing carriages and wagons until 1872. Then he bought a farm in Taylor Co., WV and lived a year there, but sold out and returned to Bellaire and resumed wagon making. Shop is at 136 Guernsey St. He has a family of eight children: Newton L., Emma C., Ella, Camilla, Mary (deceased), Cassius M., Jessie, and Minnie. -- Bonnie Burkhardt <burkhard@flash.net> <bburkhardt@juno.com>