MARSH, Asa

MARSH

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 4/29/2006 at 11:00:41

Rev. Asa Marsh, first pastor of the Baptist Church of Riceville, came here in 1860. He found a fair field for his labors. The society had existed in an organic state but a few months, and he was settled pastor, June 23,1860. Mr. Marsh was born in Weybridge, Addison Co. Vt., Sept. 13, 1807. His parents, Amos and Abigail Marsh, went to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., when he was thirteen years of age. He was educated at Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., where he studied theology. In 1836 he went to Jeffersonville, Ind., and in 1839, was ordained a minister. He pursued his calling in Indiana until 1857, when he removed to Austin, Minn. He preached there three years. His ministerial connection with the Baptist Church at Riceville continued eleven years, when failing health compelled the cessation of his labors.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 327