Thomas H. Marshall Jr.

Thomas H. Marshall, Jr., an Engineering Sales Executive and sailor of Easton, MD, formerly of Ruxton and Oxford, died on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was 93. The son of the late T. Hartley and Charlotte Margaretta Taylor Marshall of Baltimore and Glebe Farm, Havre de Grace, MD, he was a direct descendent of Chief Justice John Marshall and Colonel Thomas Hartley, Commander of the Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Continental Line who served for twelve years in the U.S. Congress. Mr. Marshall graduated from the Boys’ Latin School and was a cum laude graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Class of ’35, where he was elected to the Honorary Engineering Fraternity, Tau Beta Pi. In 1935, he joined the General Electric Company; holding various positions, retiring after over 42 years of service. Prior to his retirement in 1977, he was a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineering Society of Baltimore, the Newcomen Society and the Center Club. Mr. Marshall was a member of the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania in the right of Col. Thomas Hartley, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Johns Hopkins Club and a subscriber to the Bachelors Cotillion. His associations also included the Historical Society of Talbot County, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the Oxford Museum and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. He was a former member of the Tred Avon Yacht Club, where he served a term as President. For many years, Mr. Marshall was a communicant of the Church of the Good Shepard, Ruxton and the Church of The Holy Trinity, Oxford. Eleanora Lee Marshall, his wife of 56 years, died in 1999. A brother, John Marshall and sisters, Frances M. Starratt and Louise M. Shorey predeceased him. Mr. Marshall is survived by a son, T. Hartley Marshall III of Baltimore; a daughter, Eleanora Lee Marshall of Baltimore and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held on July 5, 2006 at 10:30 AM at William Hill Manor, 501 Dutchmans Lane, Easton, MD. Interment will be at Lorraine Park Cemetery, 5608 Dogwood Ave., Woodlawn, MD on July 5, 2006 at 2:00 PM. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton, MD.