Biographical Sketch of Thomas W. 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. 538-40. "THOMAS W. MARSHALL, the senior member of the banking firm of T. W. Mar- shall & Co., of West Chester, and a well known and successful financier of Chester county, is a son of John W. and Edna (Webb) Marshall, and was born in East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1843. He is descended from Abram Marshall, who came from Nottingham, England, and settled in what is now East Bradford township. He married and reared a family, and one of his descendants was John W. Marshall, who was born in 1804 in West Bradford township, and upon arriving at maturity purchased a farm in East Marlborough township and resided there up to the farm of his death, which occurred June 17, 1863. He was an old-line whig in politics, and married Edna Webb, who died August 13, 1884, aged seventy- eight years. They reared a family of eight children, four of whom still survive. "Thomas W. Marshall was reared on the farm, received his education at Kennett Square academy, and at eighteen years of age commenced life for himself as a clerk in a store at Wilmington, Delaware. Upon attaining his majority he removed to West Chester, where he entered the First National bank as a clerk, and was promoted from position to position until in three years and six months he became cashier, in which capacity he served up to 1872. He then resigned to form a partnership with Smedley Darlington, and they did a private banking business in Philadelphia until 1875, when Mr. Marshall returned to West Chester, where he conducted a private bank with Mr. Darlington for one year. At the end of that time the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Marshall commenced business on his own account, which he continued by himself until 1887, when he admitted his nephew, William Chalfant, Jr., into partnership, under the present firm name of T. W. Marshall & Co. He does a general investment business, and his bank is known throughout eastern Pennsylvania as a substantial and safely managed financial institution. He is a director of the National bank of Chester county, the oldest and largest bank in the county, and has always taken a deep interest in any enterprise that is intended to promote the material and business prosperity of his borough. He is also a director and first vice-president of the McKinley-Lanning Loan & Trust Company, of Philadel- phia, and holds several other positions of responsibility and trust. He is an independent republican in politics. "On May 11, 1869, Mr. Marshall was united in marriage with Kate D. Worthington, daughter of Dr. Wilmer Worthington (see his sketch), a dis- tinguished physician and politician of Pennsylvania."