Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Moderator Clinton Marsh Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Moderator Clinton Marsh Records

Inclusive Dates

1973-1974

Call Number

RG 126

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Moderator (1973-1974 : Marsh)

Quantity

1.50 cubic feet

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

Clinton M. Marsh was born in 1916 in Annemanie, Alabama; his parents, Thomas and Sadie Marsh, were both Presbyterian mission schoolteachers in that state. He earned a BA at Knoxville College in 1939 and went on to graduate from Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary in 1944. He served as pastor at churches in Chase City, VA (1944) and Indianapolis (1946-63). He served on the boards of various Presbyterian and community organizations, of the National Council of Churches, and the Board of National Missions. He was moderator of the Indiana and Indianapolis Presbyteries and of the Second Synod. From 1965-1970, he directed the Ecumenical Program for Emergency Action in Africa. His Indianapolis congregation sup-ported his nine-month administration of the 1963 Organizing Assem-bly of the All-Africa Conference of Churches; Marsh was responsible for organizing this first large international conference ever held in Africa.

Marsh went on to serve as General Assembly moderator from 1973-74 and was later appointed a member of the Task Force to Document the History of Former All-Black Governing Bodies.

Collection Overview

RG 126 consists of official files from Marsh's year as General Assembly moderator, 1973-1974. For the most part these are correspondence files, although they include a few publications and articles. In addition to the regular correspondence there are two folders of letters written in protest over a 1973 issue of Trends magazine which dealt with homosexuality and the Church. Marsh's reply to these protests is included at the beginning of the first of these two folders (Box 2, Folder 7).

Organization and Arrangement

SERIES 1: MODERATOR'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1974

SERIES 2: PROTEST LETTERS, 1973

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed: 1976
Frederick Schalow, Records Researcher

Collection rehoused and new finding aid prepared: March 1991
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Topical Subject

Homosexuality and the church--Presbyterian Church.

Personal Added Name

Marsh, Clinton M. (Clinton McClurkin) 1916-

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to RG 126

		SERIES 1: MODERATOR'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1974

1	2	May 1973
	3	June 1973
	4	June 1973
	5	July 1973
	6	August 1973
	7	September 1973
	8	October 1973
	9	October 1973
	10	November 1973
	11	December 1973
	12	December 1973
	13	January 1974
	14	February 1974
	15	February 1974
	16	March 1974
	17	March 1974
	18	April 1974
	19	April 1974

2	1	May 1974
	2	May 1974
	3	June 1974
	4	July 1974

		SERIES 2: PROTEST LETTERS, 1973

	5	Protest Letters, 1973
	6	Protest Letters, 1973