| Marshall Ashby Purse | |
| Birth Date: | 1867 |
| Birth Place: | Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Death Date: | 1938 (aged 70 or 71) |
| Resting Place: | Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, St. Simons, Georgia, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Spouse: | Josephine (–1938; his death) |
Marshall Ashby Purse (1867–1938) was a 19th- and 20th-century American physician. He was eminent in Atlanta, Georgia.[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.[4] [5]
He married Josephine Earnest.[6]
In 1896, he succeeded Dr. Harris as professor of chemistry at Southern Medical College in Atlanta.[7]
Purse died in 1938, aged 70 or 71. He is interred in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery, St. Simons, Georgia.