Joseph M. Marshall (c. 1841-1885)
MSA SC 3520-13826
Biography:
Born in Baltimore City, Maryland, c. 1841. Eldest child of John (born c. 1815) and Eliza (born c. 1820) Marshall. Six siblings: George, John, Katherine, Ida, Willie, and Sophia. Married to Mary A. Parks (b. August 1845) of Baltimore City 28 February 1865. Seven children: Mary E. (born c. 1866), John Milton (born c. 1868), Clinton Walton (born September 1872), Annie Brady (born December 1876), Joseph Parks (born c. 1878), Charles Archibald (born September 1879), and Sophia Stewart (born November 1881). Carpenter in Annapolis from 1870-1885. Associated with supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury in 1885. Died June 11, 1885 in Jackson, Tennessee, in a construction accident. Buried in Loudon Cemetary, Baltimore.
Joseph M. Marshall was born about 1842. He resided at 39 Hanover Street in Annapolis, Maryland and moved to 631 Gilmore Street in Baltimore early in 1885
with his wife Mary E. (born c. 1847) and his five children Mary E. (born c. 1866), John M., (born c. 1868), Clinton W. (born c. 1873), Annie B. (born c. 1876),
and Joseph P. (born c. 1878).
Marshall was a carpenter and a contractor who worked on the State House at Annapolis in the late 1870s and early to mid-1880s. He successfully won bids
submitted to the Board of Public Works for major projects in and around the State House. His work included fitting a room in the cellar of the State House for use
as the State Library, laying pipe in and around the State House and fixing up the Comptroller's Office by hanging doors on new hinges and buying a new wash basin
for it. On the exterior of the State House, he landscaped the grounds around it, paved the circle around it, built a front porch (or portico) on it, and made repairs to
the dome. In the Report of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Delegates, January 9th, to Investigate the Repairs upon the State House 1878,
Marshall was called the "resident Superintendent of the State House Improvements." He employed many carpenters and laborers to help him with the various
projects.
Marshall died in Jackson, Tennessee on June 11, 1885 in a tragic construction accident. He had gone to Tennessee under contract to erect a government building.
While the stone and brick were being hoisted for the work, the "derrick" swung around quickly and unexpectedly struck Marshall in the head. He remained
conscious long enough to dictate his last will and testament and to express his dying wish to see his wife once more. Although she rushed to be by his side, she
arrived in Jackson three hours too late to see her husband before he died.
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