Johnny Marshall
John Houston "Johnny" 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 Yellow Jackets | |
|---|---|
| Position | End |
| Class | Graduate |
| Career history | |
| College | Georgia Tech (1925–1926) |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | June 18, 1904 Jacksonville, Florida |
| Died: | November 7, 1977 (aged 73) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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]
Notes
- As revealed through published letters between them.[7]
References
- State of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003. Boston, MA, USA
- "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
- Morgan Blake. "A Review of the 1925 Georgia Tech Football Season".
- "Agency Companies".
- http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A154508/datastream/OCR/view
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/beckham-robert-h
- Lubow, Arthur (2003-09-14). "Arbus Reconsidered". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-16.