Robert Earley Marsh, son of John Joseph Marsh, writes at a desk in
West Salem, Oregon, above, featuring a lamp made from his father’s fire department
silver voice trumpet. He is also pictured, below right in about 1909, between
his father and an unidentified driver on a Bellingham, Washington, Fire
Department hook and ladder fire wagon, The insert shows his father’s
departmental shield. (Photo cutline from Nov. 15, 1981, Bellingham Herald feature page headlined, “John J. Marsh: a
forgotten man who helped lay city’s foundation.”) Photos of Robert Marsh and
Robert Marsh holding shield by Timothy
John Marsh, John Marsh’s grandson and Robert Marsh’s son. The trumpet and
shield are now in a collection at the Whatcom County Historical Museum in
Bellingham.
