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Field, Marshall

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Field, Marshall (1835–1906)

US merchant. The Marshall Field and Company soon became one of the world's largest, most progressive emporia. His philanthropic donations to many causes include the land on which to establish the University of Chicago and a library for his hometown.

He was born in Conway, Massachusetts and began work as a shop assistant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He moved to Chicago where he continued in retail and, by 1867, he headed Field, Leiter & Company which, in 1881, became Marshall Field and Company. In 1893, he gave a million dollars for the Columbian Museum at the Chicago World's Fair, now known as the Field Museum of Natural History.



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