Marshall, Perry S.

Image of Perry Marshall, from the Vermont Alumni Weekly .

Dr. Perry Marshall (1850?-1929) was a resident of New Salem, Massachusetts. A minister, published poet, and doctor specializing in "surgical disease of women," Marshall attended the University of Vermont and graduated in 1871. He bought his home in New Salem in 1891, which burned after his death in 1929. In Marshall's 45th year he married 38-year-old Ella Maria Ormsby on Dec. 4, 1895, and the two had three daughters. Ella Maria Ormsby was born in Hampden, Massachusetts on March 9, 1857. She was a bird enthusiast who advocated bird protection and safe feeding practices. A member of the American Ornithologists' Union, she was elected an Associate of the Union in 1912.

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