Johnny Marshall
Marshall in 1925
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
PositionEnd
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:(1904-06-18)June 18, 1904
Jacksonville, Florida
Died:November 7, 1977(1977-11-07) (aged 73)
Boston, Massachusetts
Career history
CollegeGeorgia Tech (1925–1926)
Career highlights and awards

John Houston Marshall (June 18, 1904 – November 7, 1977)[1] was a college football player and entrepreneur, with various business interests, including trucking and insurance.

Georgia Tech

Johnny Marshall was a prominent end for William Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football teams. He was selected All-Southern in 1926.[2] The yearbook in 1925 remarked '"Johnnie" could have made "All-American" had he caught that pass in the Alabama game."[3]

Personal life

Marshall was from Jacksonville, where he returned after graduation from Georgia Tech, founding the John Marshall Agency Inc.[4]

He married Catherine M. Beckham. She was the daughter of Charlotte W. Mahone, the first woman to serve as dean of students at Florida State College for Women;[5] and Brigadier General Robert H. Beckham, a former Adjutant General of Texas who served in the Spanish American War.[6]

His only child, Carlotta Marshall, worked as a photographer in New York where she formed a close friendship with Diane Arbus.[lower-alpha 1]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ As revealed through published letters between them.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ State of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003. Boston, MA, USA
  2. ↑ "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
  3. ↑ Morgan Blake. "A Review of the 1925 Georgia Tech Football Season".
  4. ↑ "Agency Companies".
  5. ↑ "Diginole: FSU's Digital Repository | DigiNole".
  6. ↑ "TSHA | Beckham, Robert H".
  7. ↑ Lubow, Arthur (September 14, 2003). "Arbus Reconsidered". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
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