Editing Daniel Webster Marsh

{{Short description|Canadian businessman and politician}}
{{Infobox politician
|name       =Daniel Webster Marsh
|image      =Daniel Webster Marsh NA-287-1.jpg
|imagesize  =170px
|office     =4th [[Mayor of Calgary]]
|predecessor=[[Arthur Edwin Shelton]]
|successor  =[[James Delamere Lafferty]]
|term_start =January 21, 1889
|term_end   =January 20, 1890
|birth_date =August 15, 1838
|birth_place=[[Hudson, New Hampshire]], U.S.
|death_date ={{Death date and age|1916|6|27|1838|8|15}}
|death_place=[[Calgary]], Alberta, Canada
}}
'''Daniel Webster Marsh''' (August 15, 1838 – June 27, 1916) was a businessman and 4th mayor of [[Calgary]], [[District of Alberta|Alberta]], Canada. He was born in the United States, at [[Hudson, New Hampshire]] to Enoch Sawyer March and Margaret Whittier.  

Marsh spent his youth in [[Nashua, New Hampshire]], attending the public schools, and starting his working career there. As a young man, he served with the [[American Civil War|30th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment]] and was a part of the [[Dakota Territory]] Indian campaigns.

By 1876 Marsh was managing a small general store in [[Fort Benton, Montana]], after which he joined the Fort Benton firm [[T. C. Power and Bro]]<ref name="toronto">{{cite web |last1=Klassen |first1=Henry C. |title=Marsh, Daniel Webster |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/marsh_daniel_webster_14E.html |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |access-date=6 September 2023 |date=1998}}</ref> and in 1876 moved to [[Fort Walsh]] (in [[Saskatchewan]]) to manage their store, remaining at that post until 1883. As the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] moved west, Marsh saw the opportunity to open up new stores for the company; he opened a store in [[Maple Creek, Saskatchewan]] in 1883, and opened a Calgary branch in 1884, remaining as manager of that post until 1893. He arranged for his nephew, Horace A. Greeley, to manage the store in Maple Creek.

Marsh became a prominent moneylender soon after his arrival in Calgary. In 1887 he married Julia Wood Shurtliff, the widow of [[North-West Mounted Police]] superintendent Albert Shurtliff. They had one daughter. T. C. Power and Bro. sold the Calgary store to Marsh in 1893, and he continued operating it until 1901.

Marsh served one term as mayor of the town of Calgary, winning by acclamation in the [[1889 Calgary municipal election|1889 election]] and serving from January 21, 1889, to January 20, 1890.<ref>{{cite book|last=Soby|first=Trudy|title=Be it ever so humble|year=1975|publisher=Century Calgary Publications|location=Calgary|page=Photo 27|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=500305}}</ref>  

Upon his death in Calgary, his estate was appraised at $351,000. The majority of his estate was left to Julia, who died two years later.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7570 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041207040612/http://www.pioneersalberta.org/pioneer_profiles.html Southern Alberta Pioneers]

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[[Category:19th-century mayors of places in Alberta]]