New-York tribune., 1906-08-30

the son of Franci9 Marshall a Scotchman, who
came to this city to get employment a stone
mason and founded the contracting firm OF Mar
shall. Bates & Co.. which built the Custom House
in Wall street, the Astor House and many other
large buildings OF the city many years ago. After
attending public school near his home in Varick
street several years Mr.. Marshall went 20 Chicago
and remained there until he seventeen. Com
ing back to New York at that age. he obtained
ployment as an engraver in watch case factory.
but in few years he tired Of engraving geometri-
cal designs on watch cases and began to try his
hand at steel plate engraving in his spare time.
An application for apprenticeship in a bank-
note company made on his behalf by Cyrus
Durand, an engraver. in 1856, when the Buchanan
Fremont campaign attracting much interest
IN the city The banknote company declined to
consider the application. At Mr.. Durand's sugges-
ton. young Marshall in his spare time made steel
plate engraving of Buchanan. and Mr. Durand sold
IT to the company the work of an unnamed en-
sraver for $40. Mr.. Marshall then engraved
portrait Of General Fremont, which the company
youth who had failed 70 get apprenticeship with
obtained good position with the company and be-
Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War Mr.
Aarshan % went 70 Paris to study painting, in which
favorably as the engraver Of stuart's portrait Of
WNashingt9n and Of Elliott,s portrait Of James
portrait having a wide circulation. Two. or his
the French annual exposition OF arr in 1854 He re-
turned to this city Immediately after the assas-
sination of President Lincoln and began work on
his portrait engraving OF Lincoln which had an
enormous sale. copies being bought in all parts OF
the country.
For some years Mr.; Marshall lived in Boston.
where he painted portraits of Hawthorne Long
fellow Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles A.
Dana. Dana. Then he moved into the Broadway studio
painted portraits Of President Grant General sher
man, Henry Ward Beecher c. p Huntington,
Chauncey NJ Depew, Thomas B. Reed MonsignOr
DOane, NJ a Hanna. James C. Blaine and other
prominent Americans. He made engravings Of the
portraits of Grant, Sherman. Huntington and
Doane, copies Of which had wide circulation.
For many years Mr. Marshall worked on a colos-
sal head Of Christ, making first charcoal SKETCH
then plaster cast: then a painting. and finally
engraving, all of which in the studio. \
photograph Of the engraving was reproduced re-
Gently in the Sunday Supplement OF The Tribune
Mr. Marshall always regarded his head of Christ as
his greatest work. refusing tempting offers for the
painting and keeping IL close in his studio. where IL
was seen only by his friends
Mr.. Marshall married many years ago, but cid
not live happily with his wife. and the couple were
divorced. daughter is believed to be living but
her father had not seen her or heard from her in
years In 1900 Mr. Marshall married Mrs. Florence
Rogers Garrison, widow. who survives him. Mr..
Marshalrs two brothers. Francis NJ. Marshall. Of
Washington and Oscar Marshall. Of Newark. n. J.,
and his sister Mrs. S. r. Beardsley Of Newark.
n. j., are living.