Background
Marsh, Robert Mccurdy was born on January 8, 1878 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Elias Joseph and Sarah Lord (McCurdy) Marsh.
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Robert Mccurdy Marsh
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Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1899, Master of Arts, 1900. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1903.
Career
Prime (Mistress Donald Eldredge). Admitted to New York State bar, 1903. Associate Guthrie, Cravath & Henderson, 1903-1906, Howland, Murray & Printice, 1906-1909, Sullivan & Cromwell, 1909-1915.
Practiced alone, 1915-1917.
Member Marsh, Emgree & Pfeiffer, and successor Marsh & Pfeiffer, 1919-1929. Partner Delafield, Thorne, Burleigh & Marsh, New York City, and successors Delafield, Thorne & Marsh, Delafield, Marsh, Porter & Hope, now Delafield, Marsh & Hope, since 1929.
Achievements
Membership
Served as captain, Field Artillery, United States Army, World War I. Member New York Legislature, 1916-1917. Member War Department Claims Board, Special adviser to secretary of war, 1919-1920, Justice Supreme Court of the New York (by appointment of governor), 1922.
President New York School for the Deaf 1937-1947. Fellow American Bar Foundation.
Member of the New York County Lawyers Association (president 1940-1942), American Bar Association (member house of deals 1942-1946).
Member Board of Health, City of New York, 1945-1954. Clubs: Union, University, National.
Connections
Married Charlotte Delafkeld, June 1, 1921.
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Nationality
American -
Religion
Episcopalian -
Political Party
Republican