Dwight Whitney Marsh
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Dwight Whitney Marsh (November 5, 1823 – June 18, 1896) was an American missionary and historian.[1] He was the author of an 1869 book titled The Tennessean in Persia and Koordistan,[2] as well as an 1895 book titled Genealogy of John Marsh of Hartford, 1636.[1]
Born in Dalton, Massachusetts, Marsh graduated from Williams College in 1842. He then studied at Andover Theological Seminary, before completing his studies at Union Theological Seminary in 1849.[1]
Career
In 1849, Marsh sailed to Turkey. He was stationed as a missionary in Mosul for ten years.[1] While he was there, Assyriologist Austen Henry Layard gave him several slabs he had excavated, which Marsh sent on to Williams College; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut; the New-York Historical Society; and the Mercantile Library of St. Louis.[1] Marsh also sent Assyrian tablets, cylinders, coins, and other antiquities to other contacts.[1]
In 1860, Marsh returned to the United States.[3] He served as a pastor at various churches in states including Massachusetts and Illinois.[3] He was also a principal at a school in Rochester, New York, for five years.[3]