Harold Marden

Harold Marden attended Troy High School and entered Dartmouth University in 1907. There, he was a member of the football and track and field teams, excelling particularly as a hammer thrower, shot putter and discus thrower. For two years (1911 and 1912), he was in the top 20 of the world ranking list in the hammer throw. He won the discus and hammer throwing events at the 1912 New England Intercollegiate Championships and placed fourth in the shot put. At the 1912 Olympic Trials, he placed third in the Eastern Division. He was selected for the US Olympic Team in the hammer throw but did not go to Stockholm due to his upcoming exams. He also showed his musical talent in a mandolin club and in the college orchestra.

After spending some years as a math teacher, he entered the Albany Medical College and enrolled in the Naval Reserve Corps. After graduation he continued to work at the medical college and center, as a teacher in pharmacology. Marden then joined the medical department of F. C. Huyck & Sons, a major textile and felt-making company in Rensselaer, New York. He worked for the company, which was known for the medical support of their employees, for 35 years until his retirement.

In 1924, he married Miriam Ruth Oliver. They had two sons one of whom became a urologist and the other one an architect. Marden lived with his family in Albany and its suburb Delmar. He became an excellent tennis player and avid sailor and navigator. After his retirement he was a voluntary school physician in Delmar, played cornet in the local orchestra, and was engaged in various other social activities. He died after a long illness from a prostate carcinoma.