Levin R. Marshall

Levin R. Marshall (October 10, 1800 – July 24, 1870) was an American banker and planter in the Antebellum South. He was a founder and President of the Commercial Bank of Natchez, Mississippi. He owned 14,000 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana, and 10,000 acres in Arkansas.

Early life Levin R. Marshall was born October 10, 1800, in Alexandria, Virginia. His father, Henry Marshall, was from Maryland, and was some relation to Chief Justice John Marshall.

Career Marshall was said to have come to Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory in 1817. Marshall started his career as a banker for the United States bank in Woodville, Mississippi. Indeed, he owned five plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana which spanned 14,000 acres, and 10,000 acres in Arkansas.

By the 1850s, he produced more than 4,000 bales of cotton every year. Marshall married second to Sarah E. Elliott Ross, daughter of Dr. Elliott, sister of William St. John Elliot, and widow of Isaac Ross Jr., son of Isaac Ross. They had eight children. They resided at Richmond in Natchez, and also maintained Hawkswood, a residence in Pelham Bay, New York. One of their sons married a granddaughter of William Dunbar of Forest Plantation and is buried at the Dunbar family cemetery.

Death Marshall died on July 24, 1870, at the age of 69.