RICHARDSON, MARSHALL S. W. (1875-1960)

RICHARDSON, MARSHALL S. W., Baptist minister, Newcastle, 1914-16; b. West Jeddore, N.S., 8 Aug 1875, s/o Richard Richardson and Deborah Hopkins; m. 1st, 1903, Nettie A. Simmons, of Hastings, Cumberland Co., N.S., and 2nd, 1925, Margaret Knapp; d. Kamloops, B.C., 1 Sep 1960.

Marshall Sterling Weeks Richardson was educated at Horton Academy, Acadia University (BA 1901), and Colgate University (MA 1907), where he was also trained for the Baptist ministry. Ordained in 1905, he had pastorates in the states of New York and California, and in British Columbia, as well as in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He came to Newcastle from Truro in 1914, as successor to the Rev. Henry T. Cousins. He was "a pastor of tact, ability, and great personal charm," but he resigned after only two years because of the illness of his father and took a church at Bridgetown, N.S.

Many articles of Richardson's authorship were published in The Maritime Baptist. One of those which appeared in 1926 was entitled "The Value of Music in Evangelism." He also wrote on spirituality and morality. In 1929 he was elected president of the Maritime Baptist Convention. After an unusually diversified ministry he retired at Amherst, N.S., in 1950. In 1953 an honorary DD was conferred on him by Acadia University. He was living in Kamloops, B.C., in 1957 and died there three years later, at age eighty-five.