Leonard Marshall

MARSHALL, Leonard. b. Chelsea, near Boston, Massachusetts, 3 May 1809; d. Hudson, New Hampshire, 1 July 1890. Marshall lived in Boston for most of his life. An associate of Lowell Mason*, Marshall was music director of the Chambers Street Congregational Church in Boston, a teacher of vocal music, and a leader of choral institutes and musical conventions throughout New England. Nothing is known of his early musical training, but it is likely to have been initially in singing schools, which were still held regularly in the early 19th-century Boston area. In the 1830s, he was a member of the Billings and Holden Society, a musical organization in Boston whose members met regularly to sing...