Marsh, Captain Obedd. 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.]