page_title: Marshall Ayres Jr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Marshall Ayres Jr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Marshal Ayres, Jr.
context_page_description: Marshall Ayres Jr. was an industrial financier.
context_section_description: Marshall Ayres Jr. was born on February 20, 1839, in Griggsville, Illinois, to father Marshall Ayres and mother Hannah (Lombard) Ayers, who were native to Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.  Their ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and his Ayres' father, Marshall, was one of the pioneer residents of Griggsville, moving there in 1821.  Marshall Jr., was raised in Griggsville and schooled locally by a Harvard graduate.  He first ventured out to Chicago to work in a bank. At the age of 16, in 1855, then again in 1857, he went to the Boston prep school, William Brooks.  His last year before entering college, he was home-schooled with his cousin and future business partner, Josiah Lombard, by the Yale graduate, Rev. Henry M. Tupper.  At the age of 21, he realized the necessity of a good education, and went to Boston in 1860 to attend Harvard University, graduating with honors in 1863.  After graduation he went back to Chicago for the next four years, where he met his future wife.
  On June 11, 1868, in a Chicago wedding, Ayres, age 29, married Louise Adelaide Sanderson, age 23 (1845–1886), daughter of Levi Sanderson, who was one of the founders of Galesburg, Illinois. After the wedding the two headed for New York City to start their family.
  Louise and Marshall Jr. had four daughters: Mary, born just a year after they were married, Winnifred, Marjorie, and Mildred.  Their only son, Charles, died at the age of one.  Louise died on August 2, 1886, at the age of 38, leaving Marshall to raise two teenage daughters and the others only 12 and 6 years old.
  Just two years later, on October 30, 1889, Ayres married a girl twenty years younger, Francis N. Nobel (1857–1915) of Provincetown, Massachusetts, daughter of Rev. Edward W. Noble of Cambridge.  Together they set went on a nine-month extended journey through Europe, visiting France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Scotland.
  In 1900, at the age of 61, Ayres retired to the shores of Lake Sunapee, in  Newbury, New Hampshire.  He died of heart disease August 12, 1906, in the town of Newbury.
  His second of four daughters, Winifred Ayres, married the well-known New York lawyer Theodore S. Hope.
caption: Marshall Ayres Jr. -ca. 1900
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