Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Frank E. MARSH, of the firm of Carpenter & Marsh, grain merchants and proprietors of the 
Union Transfer Elevator, Joliet; was born in Joliet June 27, 1849; he is the son of H. N. 
MARSH, an early settler of Will Co., and for many years past the agent of the Chicago, 
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company in this city. He was educated in the public schools 
of Joliet, and at the Chicago Academy; in 1868, he became ticket agent and telegraph 
operator of the C., R. I. & P. R. R., and continued till the spring of 1874, when he 
entered into partnership with H. S. Carpenter in the grain and elevator business; they 
are now the heaviest dealers in Northern Illinois outside of Chicago; they do an 
extensive export business, about three-fourths of their grain being purchased for 
foreign shipment. Mr. MARSH was Superintendent of the Will County Historical Society 
in 1871 and 1872, previously to its being merged into the Joliet Public Library. He 
was married Feb. 4, 1873, to Miss Kate RICHMOND, of Joliet, and has two children - 
Horatio Richmond and Loren William.