Marsh, Captain Obed

d. 1878.  A shipowner, merchant, and sea captain of Innsmouth.  He owned three ships: the brigantine Colombia, the brig Hetty, and the barque Sumatra Queen.  He made a pact with the South Seas Kanaky tribe and founded the cult of the Deep Ones, The Esoteric Order of Dagon.  His first wife was supposedly a Kanaky woman with whom he had a son, Onesiphorus.  His second wife, married in 1846 about the time of the Innsmouth epidemic, was a woman who was never seen without her veil (See also: Pth'thya-l'yi).  With his second wife he had three children.  The oldest and youngest were deformed and hidden away.  The middle child, a girl, was educated in Europe and was prone to wearing exotic, bizarre jewelry.  She was married off to an unsuspecting
Arkham man.

[The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P.L.]