Background
Marshall, Davis Edward was born on May 31, 1869 in Enfield Center, New York, United States. Son of Davis Chester and Algiana Rebecca (Osborn) Marshall.
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Davis Edward Marshall
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Educated Benedict’s Preparatory School, Rochester.
Career
1 daughter (by 1st marriage), Edna Noble (deceased). News editor American Press Association, Buffalo and New York, 1885-1889. Sunday editor New York Press, 1890-1895.
European correspondent Bancheller & Johnson Newspaper Syndicate, 1896. Sunday editor, New York Journal, 1897. European correspondent and Sunday editor New York World, 1897-1898.
War correspondent New York Journal, 1898 (shot at Las Guasimas, June 24). Editor McClure’s Newspaper Syndicate, 1900. Correspondent first Peace Conference at The Hague.
Sunday editor New York Herald, 1901. Newspaper and magazine writer on tenement house reform in Europe and New York. Secretary New York State Tenement House Commission, 1894.
Lecturer on Spanish-American War, the Army, Paris, etc. Correspondent Columbian Magazine, Mexican insurrection, 1911. Interviews for New York Times and Sunday newspapers throughout the country, 1910-1914.
Organized Edward Marshall Newspaper Syndicate (Inc.), 1914, which purchased Curtis Brown News Bureau, London, 1916, establishing newspaper service in Europe and America. Director committee on Productions, Films, Inc. Director De Forest Phonofilm, Inc., 1923-1924.
Correspondent in England, France, Italy and Belgium during European War. Passenger on S.S. Sussex when torpedoed. American correspondent Sunday Observer, London.
Consulting editor Aero Digest. Director National Paper Process Company Author: Story of the Rough Riders, 1898. Lizette, 1902; The Middle Wall, 1904.
The Writing on the Wall, 1909. In Old Kentucky (with Charles T. Dazey, author of the play), 1910. The Old Flute-player (with Charles T. Dazey), 1911.
The Spendthrift (with Porter Emerson Browne, author of the play), 1911. The Family (with Robert Hobart Davis, author of the play), 1911. Bat: An Idyl of New York, 1912.
Master of the House, from Edgar James’ play, 1912. Broadway Jones, from George M. Cohan’s play, 1913. Co-author, with Earl Mayo, dramatization of “Cape Cod Folks,” 1902.
Home: New York, New York.
Connections
Married second, Margaret Davies, London, 1916.
