Alexander MARSH, Sr.
1810 - 1887 (77 years)-
Name Alexander MARSH Suffix Sr. Born 19 Jul 1810 Toronto, York Co., Ontario 
- Alt Name: John Alexander Marsch.
Gender Male Died 13 Sep 1887 Bothwell, Howard Twp., Kent Co., Ontario - Aged 77y 1m 26d. D. Mitral regurgitation for 5 y, coma 3 weeks.
Buried Trinity Anglican Church, Howard, Ontario - Large red granite Monument M620.
Person ID I1084 John Willson, Piscataway, NJ and Ontario Family Tree Last Modified 12 Sep 2018
Father William MARSH, .Jr
b. 1766, Westchester Co., New York
d. Apr 1855, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario (Age 89 years) Mother Sarah Louise MONTGOMERY
b. 31 May 1779, Gagetown, Queens Co., New Brunswick
d. 31 May 1883, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario (Age 104 years) Married 29 Feb 1804 St. James Anglican Cathedral Family ID F335 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Sarah Elizabeth NEWCOMB
b. 1817, Cornwallis, Kings Co., Nova Scotia
d. 16 Dec 1853, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario (Age 36 years) Married 21 Dec 1831 Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario Children 1. William Eliakim MARSH
b. 8 Nov 1832, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario
d. 2 Jul 1917, Archer, Merrick Co., Nebraska (Age 84 years)2. Charlotte L MARSH
b. 7 Aug 1834, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario
d. 29 Jun 1914, Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona (Age 79 years)3. Mary Jane MARSH
b. 12 Nov 1837, Clear Creek, Howard Twp., Kent Co., Ontario
d. 18 Apr 1927, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario (Age 89 years)4. Mary Hannah MARSH
b. 20 Nov 1839, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario
d. 28 Nov 1922, Kansas City, Clay Co., Missouri (Age 83 years)5. Alexander Newton MARSH, .2
b. 20 Nov 1844, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario
d. 16 Sep 1923, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario (Age 78 years)6. Catherine Sarah MARSH
b. 21 Apr 1846, Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario
d. 7 May 1907, Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan (Age 61 years)Last Modified 7 Dec 2014 Family ID F777 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Nancy LAMBERT
b. 1816, Clinton, Hullett Twp., Huron Co., Ontario
d. 1891 (Age 75 years)Married 9 Jan 1860 Bothwell, Howard Twp., Kent Co., Ontario Last Modified 7 Mar 2013 Family ID F775 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - First wife Sarah Elizabeth Newcomb dau. of Eliakim she died 1854.
. Second wife was Nancy Rushton, mother of James Rushton.
. Alexander is also the father of William, Charlotte L ( John McAffee), Hannah Marsh.
INTRODUCTION HISTORY OF THE SITE
The David Dunlap Observatory property is an area of 76.5 hectares (189 acres) bordered by Hillsview Drive to the north, Bayview Avenue to the east, 16th Avenue to the south & the CNR Bala Line rail tracks to the west.
The property was the site of a 19th-century farmstead owned by Alexander Marsh, comprised of a brick farmhouse, a lane from Yonge Street, agricultural fields with hedgerows & an orchard.
When its observatory in downtown Toronto became unworkable due to light pollution, the University of Toronto identified the site as appropriate for a new facility, and the land was purchased as a gift to the University by Jessie Donalda Dunlap, as a memorial to her husband, David Alexander Dunlap. The new Observatory, which opened in 1935, included a dome housing a 74-inch (1.88m) reflector telescope & an Administration Building with 3 smaller telescope domes. See Figure 1. The main telescope was the second largest in the world at the time, and remains the largest in Canada. From 1935 to the early 1970s, the Observatory was at the forefront of Canadian astronomical research. Its achievements included advances in radio astronomy & the first direct evidence that the star Cygnus X-1 was a black hole. - - -
- First wife Sarah Elizabeth Newcomb dau. of Eliakim she died 1854.