Edwin Sprague Marston (1851-1922)
President of the Farmers Loan & Trust Company, New York
His father invented a repeating rifle and owned an armoury in New York that was sacked and burned during the Draft Riots in 1863. Edwin was spent 38-years with the Farmers Loan & trust Company, becoming President and Chairman of the Board. As one of the members of the Trust Company Committee of Five, he took an active part in the relief measures that were put into effect during the Panic of 1907. Among others, he was a director of the Fidelity & Casualty Company; Lackawanna Steel; New York Railways; Greenwich Savings Bank; New York & Queens Electric Light & Power; and, American Foreign Securities. At the time of his death he was Vice-President of the New Jersey Zinc Company and his clubs included the Metropolitan, Manhattan, India House and Morris County Golf. He lived between 375 Park Avenue in New York and his country residence at Florham, New Jersey. He was survived by his wife, son and daughter.
