Charles Henry Marshall

Charles Henry Marshall Jr. (February 19, 1838 – July 2, 1912) ), 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.

Marshall graduated from Columbia College in 1858. He also had holdings in transatlantic steamship companies and various insurance companies. 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. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

Marshall was also an avid art collector, 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: who married banker and publisher Marshall Field III (1893–1956) in 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. who married Alice Ford Huntington, a daughter of Bob Huntington and sister of Helen Huntington (the first wife of Vincent Astor). 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.

Marshall died from an acute aneurysm at his apartment, at 44 Rue de Villejust in Paris, France, on July 2, 1912.

Descendants Through his daughter Evelyn, he was the grandfather of Barbara Field (1918–1984), Bettine Field, Marshall Field IV (1916–1965), the owner of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Through his son Charles, he was the grandfather of Peter Marshall and Helen Huntington Marshall (1918–2007), who married conductor Ernest Schelling and, after Schelling's death, cellist János Scholz.

Legacy and honors The World War II Liberty Ship was named in his honor.