Background
Vance, Marshall Mounts was born on July 26, 1889 in Middletown, Ohio, United States. Son of David Colville and Rebecca Isabel (Mounts) Vance.
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Marshall Mounts Vance
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Student Ohio Wesleyan University, 1908-1909. Bachelor of Science in economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1912. Post graduate work Yale, 1913-1914.
Career
With Standard Oil Corporation of New York, Dutch East Indies, 1914-1916. With Detroit bureau of Government Research, 1917-1918. Manager in India, International Trade Developer Company, 1918-1920.
With foreign department National Cash Register Company, 1920-1921. Appointed foreign service officer, 1921. Consul at Colombo, Ceylon, 1921-1924, Windsor, Canada, 1924, Fort William and Port Arthur, Canada, 1924-1928.
Assigned to Department of State, 1928. Became consul at Windsor, Canada, 1932. Became consul at Lyons, France, 1941 (detained in Baden Baden, Germany).
Department of State, 1944. Counselor of Mission and consul general, Berlin, 1946. Frankfort (Germany), 1948, retired, 1950.
Membership
Member Sigma Phi Epsilon, Acacia.
Connections
Married Ethel Irene Hatfield, July 27, 1921. Children: Martha Marjorie, Marshall Dewitt.
