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Edward Clark Marsh

Editor and Vice President, Macmillan Co.

Centurion, 1918–1922

Born 19 February 1875 in Portland, Michigan

Died 24 September 1922 in Pawling, New York

Buried Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Proposed by George Foster Peabody and William Conant Church

Elected 4 May 1918 at age forty-three

Century Memorial

Edward Clark Marsh was yet another of those useful and (notwithstanding the popular notion to the contrary) sympathetic intermediaries between author and publisher. Successively associated in that capacity with the Macmillans and the Harpers, he pursued the difficult task for sixteen years with marked success. He was himself a writer of short stories and of reviews of books, music and plays.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1923 Century Association Yearbook