Marsh née Randall was born in 1869 in Coldwater, Michigan.

She also traveled to Paris, France, where she studied under Raphaël Collin, Frederick William MacMonnies, Luc-Olivier Merson, and James McNeill Whistler.

[2] In 1895, while in Paris, she married Frederick Dana Marsh with whom she had three children.

[3] They lived at the Enclosure, an art colony in Nutley, New Jersey.

[1] Their son James Randall Marsh (1896-1965) became a designer and metal worker.