Field, Marshall. Merchant. Born in Conway, MA, in 1835. Spent boyhood on farm. Studied at academy until 1852. Dry goods clerk, Pittsfield, MA, 1852-56; in Chicago, 1856-60. Junior partner, 1860-65, then senior partner in house, which became Field, Palmer & Leiter in 1865. Potter Palmer retired in 1867, and Levi Z. Leiter in 1881, Field becoming head of Marshall Field & Company, one of the largest wholesale and retail dry goods businesses in the world. Founded, with gifts of $9,000,000, the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. Died in 1906, leaving an immense fortune.

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