Charles Henry Marshall

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Marshall was born on February 19, 1838, in Easton, New York. He was the son of Capt. Charles Henry Marshall (1792–1865) and Fidelia (née Wellman) Marshall (1800–1840). His siblings were Mary Marshall (the wife of William Allen Butler and mother of Howard Russell Butler{{cite news|title=WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER DIES SUDDENLY; Noted Lawyer and Writer Ill but One Day. Leading Authority on American Admiralty and Author of the Satire of "Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square."|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/09/10/archives/william-allen-butler-dies-suddenly-noted-lawyer-and-writer-ill-but.html|access-date=31 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=10 September 1902}}), Fidelia Wellman Marshall, Malvina Marshall (who married Daniel Sidney Appleton), and Helen Marshall (wife of William Stanley Haseltine). His father was a businessman and merchant who fought in the War of 1812 and became the proprietor of Black Ball Packet Line.{{cite book |last1=Butler |first1=William Allen |title=Memorial of Charles H. Marshall |date=1867 |publisher=D. Appleton |page=[https://archive.org/details/memorialcharles00butlgoog/page/n100 90] |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialcharles00butlgoog |access-date=18 January 2019 |language=en}}

Marshall graduated from Columbia College in 1858.

Marshall was a businessman and merchant who ran the firm of Charles H. Marshall and Co.{{cite web |title=Marshall, Charles H., 1837–1912 |url=https://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7857 |website=research.frick.org |publisher=Frick Archives Directory for the History of Collecting |access-date=18 January 2019 |language=en}} He also had holdings in transatlantic steamship companies and various insurance companies.{{cite news |title=C.H. MARSHALL LEFT NEARLY $5,000,000 Bulk of Former Dock Commissioner's Estate Goes to His Immediate Family. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/06/104899516.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 6, 1912}} He served as a director of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company of New York, the Hanover National Bank, the Hanover Safe Deposit Company, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and a trustee of the Seamen's Bank for Savings.

In 1887, he was appointed Commissioner of Docks and Ferries by New York Mayor Abram Hewitt and served as a member of the subcommittee of Seventy on the Improvement of the City Waterfront.

In 1892, Marshall and his wife were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|access-date=26 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Patterson|first1=Jerry E.|title=The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age|date=2000|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780847822089|page=224|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLwMAAAAYAAJ|access-date=2 March 2018|language=en}} Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.{{cite book|last1=Keister|first1=Lisa A.|title=Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521536677|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dAtJf1hmAUC&pg=PA36|access-date=20 October 2017|language=en}}

Marshall was also an avid art collector, was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Union Club, the Century Club, the Riding Club, the Round Table Club of New York and the Cobden Club of London.

On April 30, 1888, Marshall was married to Josephine Mozier Banks (1860–1933). Josephine, who was born in Middletown, Rhode Island, was the second daughter of Dr. James Lenox Banks and Isabella (née Mozier) Banks.{{cite web |title=Mrs. Charles Henry Marshall (1860-1933) |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/mrs-charles-henry-marshall-1860-1933 |website=nyhistory.org |publisher=New-York Historical Society |access-date=18 January 2019}} She was also a niece of bibliophile and philanthropist James Lenox. Together, they maintained a home at 6 East 77th Street in New York City and were the parents of:

• Evelyn Isabella Marshall (1889–1979),{{cite news |title=Evelyn M. Suarez, 91, Sought Improvements In U.S. Maternity Care |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/12/06/111758194.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=December 6, 1979 |language=en}} who married banker and publisher Marshall Field III (1893–1956) in 1915.{{cite news |title=MARSHALL FIELD AND MISS MARSHALL WED Young Heir to $60,000,000 of Grandfather's Estate Leaves Sick Bed to Marry. A FEW RELATIVES PRESENT Mgr. Hayes Officiates at Ceremony In Bride's Home — Will Leave Soon on Florida Honeymoon. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/02/07/104640958.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=February 7, 1915}} They divorced in 1930, and in 1937 she married Diego Suarez Costa (1888–1974), counselor to the Colombian delegation to the United Nations in 1937 who later became the press attaché and minister counselor for Chile in Washington, D.C. from 1948 until 1952.
• Charles Henry "Buddie" Marshall III (1891–1952),{{cite news |title=C. H. MARSHALL, 61, STOCKBROKER, DIES; Senior Partner in Investment Firm of Butler, Herrick & Marshall Active in Charity |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/11/30/93592957.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1952 |language=en}} who married Alice Ford Huntington, a daughter of Bob Huntington and sister of Helen Huntington (the first wife of Vincent Astor).{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Edwin Charles |last2=Porter |first2=Bela James |title=The Historical Register: A Biographical Record of the Men of Our Time who Have Contributed to the Making of America |date=1923 |publisher=E.C. Hill |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F8M4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13 |access-date=18 January 2019 |language=en}} They divorced and in 1932, he married Brooke (née Russell) Kuser (1902–2007). Brooke, the daughter of John H. Russell Jr. (16th Commandant of the Marine Corps), was divorced from New Jersey State Senator John Dryden Kuser. Brooke's son from her first marriage, Anthony Dryden Marshall, adopted the Marshall surname. After Charles' death, Brooke became the third wife of Vincent Astor in 1953.{{cite news |title=MRS. MARSHALL WED TO VINCENT ASTOR {{!}} Daughter of Late Maj. Gen. J. H. Russell Bride of Financier at Bar Harbor Ceremony |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/09/83860641.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=October 9, 1953 |language=en}}

Marshall died from an acute aneurysm at his apartment, at 44 Rue de Villejust in Paris, France, on July 2, 1912.{{cite news |title=CHAS. H. MARSHALL IS DEAD IN PARIS Old New Yorker, Who Was a Dock Commissioner Under Mayor Hewitt. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/03/104898839.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 3, 1912}}

Through his daughter Evelyn, he was the grandfather of Barbara Field (1918–1984), Bettine Field,{{cite news |title=BETTINE FIELD WED TO A MAL ENSIGN; Daughter of Marshall Field Is Bride of McChesney Goodall Jr. in St. Bartholomew's |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/06/14/119450824.pdf |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 14, 1942 |language=en}} Marshall Field IV (1916–1965), the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times.{{cite news |title=Henry Field Dies In Hospital Here. Grandson of the Late Marshall Field Suffers Relapse After an Operation. His Bride At Bedside. Had Been Active in Management of the Chicago Store Founded by His Grandfather |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/07/09/96253971.pdf |quote=Henry Field, grandson of the late Marshall Fleld of Chicago, died yesterday morning at the Presbyterian Hospital, following an operation. He had been ill for several weeks, and was operated upon an Thursday by Dr. Adrian Lambert. It |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 9, 1917 |access-date=2015-08-07 }}

Through his son Charles, he was the grandfather of Peter Marshall and Helen Huntington Marshall (1918–2007),{{cite web |last1=Columbia |first1=David Patrick |title=A conversation with Mrs. Astor |url=https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-diary/2009/a-conversation-with-mrs-astor |website=www.newyorksocialdiary.com |publisher=New York Social Diary |access-date=18 January 2019 |language=en |date=1 April 2009}} who married conductor Ernest Schelling and, after Schelling's death, cellist János Scholz.{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths SCHOLZ, HELEN PEGGY (MARSHALL) |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9B01EFD9133AF936A3575BC0A9619C8B63.html |access-date=18 January 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 5, 2007 |language=en}}

• The World War II Liberty Ship {{SS|Charles H. Marshall}} was named in his honor.

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