Charles Henry Marshall

Charles Henry Marshall Jr. (February 19, 1838 – July 2, 1912)[1] was an American businessman, art collector and philanthropist who was prominent in society during the Gilded Age.

His father was a businessman and merchant who fought in the War of 1812 and became the proprietor of Black Ball Packet Line.

[1] In 1887, he was appointed Commissioner of Docks and Ferries by New York Mayor Abram Hewitt and served as a member of the subcommittee of Seventy on the Improvement of the City Waterfront.

Together, they maintained a home at 6 East 77th Street in New York City and were the parents of:[5] Marshall died from an acute aneurysm at his apartment, at 44 Rue de Villejust in Paris, France, on July 2, 1912.

[11] Through his son Charles, he was the grandfather of Peter Marshall and Helen Huntington Marshall (1918–2007),[17] who married conductor Ernest Schelling and, after Schelling's death, cellist János Scholz.