Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-15
FORMER MARSHAlI1OWN MAN
TO CLAIM BRIDE At POST
WILLIE,
WEDDING A CULMiNATiON
OF UNIVERSITY ROMANCE
Miss Ethel McEwen Will Become Mr..
Marsh's Bride at Quiet Homo Wed.
dins-Roth Bride and Groom Gradu.
ates at GrinneI! coliege-coupIe to
Take European Trip on Honeymoon.

An approaching wedding in which
not only great deal of local interest
Will b.. centered, but which will prove
If wide interest thruout the state. viii.
ne celebrated at Postville on Tuesday,
March 81. at 1920 O'Clock. when Mr..
George Linnaeus Marsh. formerly of
his city. and a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore 2. Marsh. 100 North Third
street. Will claim as his bride Miss
Ethel NcEwen a prominent young wo-
man of Postvil.e, daughter Of James
McEwen. cashier of the Citizens State
Bank of Pos,ville.
The wedding. which will be very
quiet. home affair. witnessed only By the
brides more intimate friends and the
relatives of the brida, couple, will prove
the elimination of a college romance.
Soth Mr. Marsh and Miss McEwen are
graduates of Grinneu College, al5ho in
different classes and it was While he
Marsh frs. met Miss NcEwen. Later.
after Mr.. Marsh had become associated
with the University Of Chicago. Miss
McEwen went 20 Chicago to take post
graduate work IN the university. Here
amid the historical scenes Of the old
midway. the friendship Of the young
peop,,. was renewed. and ripeaed into
owe and courtship.
Mr. Marsh is an alun1nus Of G-i7neI.
class Of 90. Directly after finishing his
college work ne returned home and be-
came city editor OF the Tim IS Republic
can a position he filed with credit for
a little over year. He then studied
,aw, was admitted 10 the bar, and
formed a copartnership with F. L.
Sutton. practicing under the firm name
If Sutton & Marsh for few years
Mt. Marsh has always shown a
marked tendency toward literary pur-
suits, and the commercial side OF the
Jaw did not appeal to him as strongly
as he had imagined. He decided TO
take up special work in English liter
1ture, and enrolled in post graduate
work in the University of Chicago
Later he became an instructor in the
academy of the university, and from
his work was assigned to the extension
work, with which ne has been con-
Ncctel ltl the past tc4A 49,
holds chair in the university as
assistant professor of English in the
extension department. He received his
degree, Phi D.. from the university
about five years ago.
Miss NcEwen is very superior
Young woman. and has most pleasing
personality She is known by great
many friends here. having visited in
The city on several occasions as the
guest of her friends and classnate, Miss
Agnes Sears Miss McEwen finished at
Grin-?eu with the class Of 1898, and took
post graduate work for a year in the
University of Wisconsin. She spent
the year following in study abroad, and
then entered the University Of Chicago
Cor post graduate work, which she fol-
owed by another year abroad. After
returning to this country Miss McEwen
taught in the Duluth, MINI. high
school and for the past year has been
teaching in the Central high school at
St. Paul she resigned her position in
St Paul March 70 make preparations
for her wedding
Mr.. Marsh ana mis- bride vii! go di-
rectly 20 Chicago after their wedding,
and after few days there will leave
for Europe on their honeymoon, and
will be abroad three months. They
will make their home in Chicago. Mr.
Marsh spent the summer OF 1907
abroad.