Introduction

Biography

Simeon was the hus­band of Eli­za Car­ri­er.

He be­gan sing­ing in a choir at age se­ven, and start­ed stu­dy­ing mu­sic at age 16.

By 19, he was teach­ing in lo­cal sing­ing schools. Around then, he met Tho­mas Hast­ings, who at the time was teach­ing in Ge­ne­va, New York.

By 1837, Marsh was pub­lish­ing the Am­ster­dam, New York, news­pa­per The In­tel­li­genc­er (lat­er re­named The Re­cord­er).

Upon re­turn­ing to Sher­burne, he found­ed the Sher­burne News.

Marsh taught choirs and child­ren for near­ly 30 years around Al­ba­ny, and served as a Sun­day school su­per­in­ten­dent.