Thomas C. Marshall Jr.
American philanthropist (died 2019)
Thomas C. Marshall Jr. (February 12, 2019) was a philanthropist, historian, antique car collector and one of the world's top authorities on Stanley Steamer automobiles in Yorklyn, Delaware. Prior to his death, his home and adjoining land was created into the Auburn Valley State Park.
Early life
Marshall Jr was born to T. Clarence Marshall and Esther Shallcross Marshall, and spent the first eighty-four years living in Yorklyn at the Victorian-era mansion built by his grandparents in 1897. He attended Wilmington Friends School and graduated in 1941, then Mercersburg Academy before attending M.I.T. between 1942 and 1943. He served in the US Army from 1942 until 1946 as a weather forecaster in New Mexico before joining a B-24 flight crew as an aerial weather observer in the Western Pacific. While a part of the crew he flew over the USS Missouri in the Tokyo Harbor the day of the surrender ceremony that ended World War II.
Stanley Steamer collection
Marshall Jr. inherited his fathers car collection, which began in 1910 when his father was an authorized dealer; and the first in Delaware, for the company based in Newton, Massachusetts. While the collection peaked at forty cars, of which 24 were Steamers, Marshall Jr inherited 34 vehicles and gradually reduced that number to fifteen Steamers, two Packards and one early electric car.
He drove one of the vehicles a 30-horsepower 1912 Stanley Steamer touring car on four transcontinental tours.
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