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: Oramel N. Marsh; He was born to Mott Marsh and Samantha (Brown) Marsh in New York. He taught in a boy's school in Long Island prior to coming to Mesa County, Colorado. He became the second dean of Grand Junction State Junior College (now Colorado Mesa University) from 1928-1932. He was described as a “fine gentleman” and “a valuable addition because of his experience and his knowledge of sound educational practice” by oral history interviewee, Mary Rait. A marriage record from Oneida, New York shows him marrying A Marguerite Gomph on October 11, 1920. He is shown as single and living alone in the Grand Junction YMCA at the age of forty-nine in the 1930 US Census.

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