Biographical Sketch of Humphry MARSHALL (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 559-60. "HUMPHRY MARSHALL, one of the most distinguished botanists of the new world, was a son of Abraham and Mary (Hunt) Marshall, and was born in West Bradford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1722. At twelve years of age he left school and learned the trade of stonemason, which he followed for a few years. He built the walls of his own house at Marshallton in 1773, and in the same year commenced there the first botanical garden in America. He was the author of several valuable botanical works, and died November 5, 1801, at seventy-nine years of age. As a botanist Humphry Marshall was as well known in Europe as in America, and Marshall park at West Chester was named in honor of him."