----Source: 1891 HISTORY OF CLARK & JACKSON CO, WI, pg. 176

ALVA B. MARSH, secretary and manager of the firm of the Neillsville Milling Company, was born in Clark County, December 8, 1850, the son of Nelson and Rocelia (Taylor) Marsh, Natives of Tennessee, who came to this county in 1856. The father is an extensive farmer in Grant Township, and is also engaged in the mercantile business he is also Postmaster and one of the early settlers of the county. When he settled here there was only two or three houses in Neillsville. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace for many years, and was also chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Marsh is one of the wealthy men of the county, and takes an active interest in politics. He has a family of six children living, viz: Joseph, who is engaged in lumber business in Spokeville: is Postmaster at that place, and has held the position of chairman of the County Board of Supervisors Lewis, Malvina, Sylvester, Alva B. and Spencer M., all having received a fine education. Spencer M. is now an attorney at law.

Our subject remained at home until twenty years of age, assisting on the farm and attending the district schools. He then entered the Northwestern Business College at Madison, and graduated at that institution in 1882. He afterward engaged in clerking at Maple Works for three years. In 1886 he came to Neillsville and engaged as bookkeeper for W. S. Colburn Co., with whom he remained over two years, after which he rented the same for two years. He employed eight men, and made some money, but since that time the mill has been run by a stock company, and Mr. Marsh has held the position of secretary and manager. He has held the office of Supervisor of the First Ward for the past three years, and is also secretary of the Masonic Lodge, No. 163, of Neillsville.

Mr. Marsh was married in 1886 to Miss Mamie McIntyre, of Neillsville, and the daughter of Ira and Mary McIntyre. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have two children Clara B. and Fay. Mr. Marsh has built a fine home on Ninth street, where he now resides. He is a strong Republican politically, socially a Mason, and a prominent man both of the city and county.