Theron L. Marsh was born on December 9, 1911 in Madison, NJ to parents Spencer S. and Edith Marsh. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover MA in 1929 and from Princeton University in 1933. He joined the National Newark & Essex Banking company in 1934 where he spent his active years, retiring as Chairman of the Board of the bank’s holding company in 1976.
He was drafted into the army in 1941 and attend officer training school continuing as a teacher of tactics and gunnery. He married Virginia Drewry and they had 2 daughters, Judith Fay and Cynthia Lee, and in 1953 a son, Rockwell Drewry.
In 1945 Mr. Marsh left the army as a Major, returning to the bank as an assistant cashier. In the years that followed he rose through the ranks as the bank expanded by becoming a bank holding company – Midlantic Banks Inc. – so as to own banks in New Jersey and other states. Mr. Marsh was active in civic affairs having served as President of the Welfare Foundation of Newark, the Chamber of Commerce and the Robert Treat Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He also served as a director of Kidde Inc.
Mr. Marsh married Mavis Conklin in 1973 who brought 5 children into the Marsh family as step children. Mavis died in 1993, and Mr. Marsh married Marry Louise Vogel who added three more step children.
When Mr. Marsh retired he spent many years as a volunteer for the Morristown Memorial Hospital. He was also active in the alumni affairs at Princeton as president of the class of 1933 He was an avid sailor, having owned the Dickerson 41′ Angelica and golfer, belonging to Somerset Hills Country Club in New Jersey and Hole in the Wall Golf Club in Naples Florida.
He is survived by his three children and four grandchildren.