Katherine Tupper Marshall
Katherine Tupper Marshall (born October 8, 1882 in Harrodsville , † December 18, 1978 in Leesburg ) was an American actress , author and general wife .
Life
Katherine Tupper was one of the three children of Henry Allen Tupper and Marie Pender Tupper. Her younger brother Tristram was to become known as an author. She attended Hollins College in Virginia before training to become an actress in New York . After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts , she went to the Comédie-Française in Paris . As a member of Frank Benson's Shakespeare company, she performed in Great Britain; Her roles included Ophelia, Portia, Julia and Viola. She later returned to the United States and joined Richard Mansfield's troop.
Her first marriage was in 1911 with the lawyer Clifton Stevenson Brown. He was murdered in 1928 by a dissatisfied client. He left behind the three children Molly, Clifton and Allen.
In October 1930 she married the widowed George C. Marshall in Baltimore , whom she had met in 1929. Among the wedding guests was John J. Pershing , one of Marshall's war comrades from WWI . She moved with Marshall to Fort Benning , where he was stationed. In 1946 she published a book about her life at the side of Marshall, whose career had taken a steep upswing with World War II . The original edition was titled Together. Annals of an Army Wife .
After the war she accompanied Marshall to China , where he was supposed to mediate between the communist and nationalist forces. When she returned in 1947, she had 352 varieties of mountain lilies with her, which she planted on the embassy premises.
In 1959 she was widowed for the second time. She died at the age of 96 at Loudoun Memorial Hospital in Leesburg. Only one of her children from her first marriage, Molly Brown Winn, was still alive then; the older son Clifton had died in 1952, the younger son Allen had died in Italy during World War II. Katherine Tupper Marshall was buried in Arlington National Cemetery . Her granddaughter Kitty Winn became an actress.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peggy A. Stel Plow: Home of the Infantry. Mercer University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-881-46087-2 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- ↑ Richard Pearson, Katherine Marshall, 96, Dies , in: The Washington Post , Dec. 20, 1978 ( digitized )
- ↑ Katherine Boyce Tupper Marshall at www.findagrave.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tupper Marshall, Katherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tupper, Katherine; Marshall, Katherine; Boyce Tupper Brown Marshall, Katherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress, author and general wife |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harrodsville |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1978 |
| Place of death | Leesburg, Virginia |