Edward Carrington Marshall
(1805-1882)
BIRTH
January 13, 1805
PLACE
Richmond, Virginia
DEATH
February 8, 1882
PLACE
Innis, Fauquier County, Virginia
FAMILY
MOTHER
Mary Willis Ambler Marshall
(1766-1831)
CHILDREN
John Marshall
(1755-1835)
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Edward Carrington Marshall (1805–1882), son of Chief Justice John Marshall, was a Virginia planter, legislator and railroad president. He built Carrington in Fauquier County around 1830 on land conveyed by his father. As head of the Manassas Gap Railroad, he helped connect the Shenandoah Valley to eastern markets through Manassas Junction. He moved to Rosebank to oversee the line’s progress and named the new village of Markham for his great-grandmother’s family.
EARLY LIFE
Edward Carrington Marshall was born on Jan 13, 1805. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Edward Carrington Marshall is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Edward Carrington Marshall died on Feb 8, 1882. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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Edward Carrington Marshall died on Feb 8, 1882, in Innis, Fauquier County, Virginia. Edward Carrington Marshall, son of Chief Justice John Marshall, was a Virginia planter, legislator and railroad president. He built Carrington in Fauquier County around 1830 on land conveyed by his father. As head of the Manassas Gap Railroad, he helped connect the Shenandoah Valley to eastern markets through Manassas Junction. He moved to Rosebank to oversee the line’s progress and named the new village of Markham for his great-grandmother’s family. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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