Captain William Harrington Marston (1835–1926) was an early resident of Berkeley, California.
Captain Marston was born in Cutler, Maine in November 1835, and orphaned at age 9.
His initial voyages were in the coastal lumber trade which stretched from California to Puget Sound in Washington.
Later voyages took him to destinations throughout the Pacific, from Alaska, to Hawaii, Tahiti, China, Australia and New Zealand.
Captain Marston brought the first load of Hawaiian sugar into the United States at San Francisco in September 1876 under the 1875 Treaty of Reciprocity between the U.S. and the Kingdom of Hawaii.
At the close of the 19th century, Captain Marston became the president of the Shipowners Association of San Francisco.
He was also a director of the Mercantile Trust Company, the First National Bank of Berkeley, and Boole and Sons Shipyards in Alameda, California.