Dwight Whitney Marsh, 1851
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Six letters written by American missionary Dwight Whitney Marsh from the convent of Sheikh Matti in Mosul, Iraq in 1851.
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Marsh was born in Dalton, MA on November 5, 1823, and graduated from Williams College in 1842. He studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary from 1842-43, taught in St. Louis, MO from 1843-47, and continued his theological studies at Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1849. He was ordained on October 2, 1849, then sailed on December 7 from Boston, MA to Mosul as a missionary with the ABCFM. He returned to the US from 1852-53, and married Julia White Peck on October 19, 1852. The couple returned to Mosul where Peck died on August 12, 1859. Marsh returned to the US in 1860, lecturing on his missionary experience and preaching in MA and IL. On August 21, 1862, Marsh married Elizabeth L. Barron. Marsh headed the Rochester Young Ladies' Female Seminary for five years, and preached in the Western House of Refuge. Marsh died on June 18, 1896 in Amherst, MA.
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