Marshall Ashby Purse (1867–1938) was a 19th- and 20th-century American physician.
[1] Purse was born in 1867 in Savannah, Georgia, to Daniel Gugel Purse Sr. and Laura Ashby,[2] one of their seven children.
[3] He graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in 1890 and from Columbia College in New York in 1892.
[6] In 1896, he succeeded Dr. Harris as professor of chemistry at Southern Medical College in Atlanta.
He is interred in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, St. Simons, Georgia.