752. RUSH PORTER⁹ MARSHALL (CHARLES THOMAS⁸, ROBERT NAIRN⁷, ROBERT HENRY⁶, ESME⁵, THOMAS⁴, JOHN³, THOMAS², JOHN¹) (#409) was born in Somerset Co MD December 18, 1860. RUSH died December 10, 1898 in Ontario CA, at 37 years of age.

He married MARY AUGUSTA "MAME" HAYWARD in Philadelphia PA, September 14, 1887. (MARY AUGUSTA "MAME" HAYWARD is #410.) MARY was born in Woburn MA June 5, 1862. MARY was the daughter of ARZA HARRIS HAYWARD and ANN JANETTE FLAGG. MARY died September 29, 1926 in Washington DC, at 64 years of age. Rush came to Philadelphia, PA to live with his uncle, F. Wesley Porter and his wife, Ella, in a section of the city called Germantown. He first took a job at a paint shop and was later employed by John Buter at his drug store on the northwest corner of Manheim Street and Germantown Avenue. He attended Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (Class of 1880-81). After a two-year wait to attain the required age, he obtained his degree, Ph.G. In 1886, he opened his own drugstore at 16th and Race Streets.

In December of 1895, due to tuberculosis, he moved the family near his sister, Jennie Whittington, in Monrovia, California. In 1898, he was a patient at the San Gabriel Sanitarium for Pulmonary Diseases. A twenty-two page, hand-written letter from Jane Frances Hayward, "Aunt Fannie," tells much of the life and times of the Whittington and Marshall families while Rush and his family were in California (written to C. Hayward Marshall in 1948) Two months before his death, Rush wrote a letter on San Gabriel Sanitarium stationery and mailed in a company envelope of the The Marshall Field Company in North Ontario, CA. In this letter, Rush wrote: "I wish I'd never met a Field. What involvement, if any, did Rush have with the Marshall Field Company?

After his death, Mame moved the young family back to Philadelphia.

A picture of Rush Marshall is posted at the Ghote.

RUSH PORTER MARSHALL and MARY AUGUSTA "MAME" HAYWARD had the following children:

+ 1063 i. MARION JANNETTE¹⁰ MARSHALL was born September 14, 1888.

+ 1064 ii. RUSH PORTER MARSHALL was born November 14, 1891.

+ 1065 iii. CHARLES HAYWARD MARSHALL was born December 29, 1893.

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