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MS-53, Fred F. Marshall PapersCollection Number: MS-53Title: Fred F. Marshall PapersDates: 1912-1976Creator: Marshall, Fred F., 1891-1974Summary/Abstract:The Fred F. Marshall Papers reflect Marshall's career as an engineer, aviation journalist,photographer, environmentalist, and local historian. Marshall was attached to the Signal Corps inWorld War I; he then returned to Dayton to work at McCook Field where he was editor of theaviation journal, Slipstream. Retiring in 1955 after working for several engineering and aircraftfirms, Marshall devoted his time to writing articles dealing with the history of the YellowSprings, Clifton, and Cedarville areas of Greene County. The collection includes drafts andfinalized copies of original stories, newspaper clippings, correspondence, certificates, awards,scrapbooks, as well as a large number of photographs both personal and related to military life inWorld War I. Marshall authored a number of local histories including a chronology of theWright Brothers. A few items in the collection relate to Fred Marshall’s wife, Faith Marshall.Quantity/Physical Description: 11.7 linear feetLanguage(s): English, Dutch, FrenchRepository:Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH45435-0001, (937) 775-2092Restrictions on Access: There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection.Reference prints and/or digital surrogates are available for some materials in this collection, andresearchers are requested to use these when possible. Details for specific materials are noted inthe collection inventory.Restrictions on Use:Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyrightholder.Preferred Citation:[Item Description, Box #, Folder #], MS-53, Fred F. Marshall Papers, Special Collections andArchives, University Libraries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.Acquisition:MS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers1
The Fred F. Marshall Papers were donated to Wright State University Special Collections andArchives by Wanda Scroggy, Fred Marshall’s niece, in February 1973. Additional boxes weredonated by R. Phil Marshall, Fred Marshall’s great-grandnephew, in 2005.Accruals: Additional material may be donated at a later date.Existence and Location of Copies:Portions of this collection, particularly those related to Marshall’s service in World War I, havebeen digitized and are available online in CORE Scholar, Wright State University’s CampusOnline Repository, at: http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special ms53/.Revisions:The first finding aid for the Fred F. Marshall Papers was created in 1978 by Susan E. Smith andhas been revised in order to integrate the 2005 donation as well as to bring it up to EADstandards. Item-level descriptions for selected folders were added at the end of the containerlisting by Lisa Rickey, July 2014, in preparation for digitization of those items. Finding aidrevised May 2016 by Lisa Rickey following digitization of World War I materials.Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements:Included in the collection are four phonograph records, which will require a player to be heard.Additional Sources:MS-022 Fred F. Marshall Collection, Dayton – Montgomery County Public Library, Dayton,OH.Two works by Fred F. Marshall are available in The Dayton Local History Room in the DaytonMetro Library. Both are non-circulating:Marshall, Fred F. Ohio's Tree Monarchs: Relics of the Primitive Wilderness . 1971.Marshall, Fred F. The Wright Brothers Chronology from 1903-1909 . Xenia?, Ohio: 1971.Note:Rough draft feature stories in Series II do not have page numbers, making the order difficult tounderstand.Processing Information:Some newspapers were too fragile to be copied and were discarded because of their poorcondition. No copies exist in the collection:The Dayton Sunday Journal. Magazine Section. ‘Possumholler’ by Fred F. Marshall. March 7,1920.The Dayton Sunday Journal. Editorial Section. ‘Holland: The Flower Garden of the World’ byFred F. Marshall. April 11, 1920.MS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers2
The Dayton Sunday Journal. Magazine Section. ‘In the Jungles of the Amazon’ by Fred F.Marshall. June 13, 1920.The Dayton Sunday Journal. Magazine Section. ‘A Fortune in Furs in the Miami Valley’ by FredF. Marshall. UndatedProcessed by:Susan E. Smith, May 1978.Reprocessed with additions by Sarah A. Mikell, March 2012.Item-level descriptions for selected folders added by Lisa Rickey, July 2014, in preparation fordigitization of those items.Arrangement:This collection is arranged into seven series and nine subseries:Series I: Personal PapersSubseries IA: General PapersSubseries IB: Military ServiceSeries II: Writings and PublicationsSeries III: General AviationSeries IV: SlipstreamSeries V: PESCOSeries VI: Audiovisual MaterialSubseries VIA: PhotographsSubseries VIB: NegativesSubseries VIC: RecordsSubseries VID: ScrapbooksSeries VII: MemorabiliaSubseries VIIA: GeneralSubseries VIIB: Rose SocietySubseries VIIC: ArtifactsBiographical/Historical Note:Fred Franklin Marshall was born in Cedarville, Ohio, in 1891. He graduated from CedarvilleHigh School, then attended both Cedarville College and Ohio State University, where hespecialized in engineering and journalism. For a period of eight months after leaving theuniversity, he worked as a train dispatcher for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. During thistime, he studied industrial photography.After World War I was declared, Marshall was inducted into the Armed Services and was placedinto the photo section of the Signal Corps. For three months he attended the Columbia Universityof Cinematography, where he engaged in an intensive study of photography for military usages.First, he was stationed at the Pathe Brothers factory in Paris, France. Next, he was sent to Hague,Holland, in October 1918 for the purpose of setting up photographic, cartographic, andphotostatic laboratory equipment. In 1919, he was discharged from the United States Army as aMS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers3
Second Lieutenant.He then obtained a position in the Engineering Division of the Air Corps at McCook Field,Dayton, Ohio. Soon he was working in the Technical Data Branch, where he participated in thecompilation of the first aeronautical dictionary for use in military service. He was employed atMcCook Field for four years.In 1926 he married Faith Susan Marshall from Spencer, Kentucky. While employed at McCookField, Marshall was the editor of a trade paper, known as “Slipstream”. When the publishers ofthe only other commercially published aviation paper of the world raised objections,“Slipstream” was discontinued. In 1923 Marshall resigned his position to inaugurate theSlipstream Publishing Company. He carried on the publication of the Slipstream Monthly until1928, at which time he sold his interest to Simmons Publishing Company, New York City.Marshall was employed by Simmons Publishing Company as an Assistant Editor. The name ofthe magazine was changed to Airway Age.Marshall then worked for Aero Supply Manufacturing Company in Long Island, New York, until1931, when the company was discontinued. Returning to Dayton, Marshall served as the localrepresentative for Pump Engineering Service Company (PESCO) of Cleveland, Ohio, until 1943.At this time he retired from business due to ill health. After recovery, he served as representativefor a number of aircraft manufacturers until 1955.During these years, Marshall wrote many feature stories and articles for the Cedarville Heraldand the Dayton Daily News.In 1962, he was named Chairman of the Board of Nominations for the Aviation Hall of Fame.He resigned as Chairman in 1963, but continued his membership. He became a member of theGreene County Historical Society and belonged to the Old Mill organization. Involved inconservation activities, Marshall wrote many articles dealing with areas surrounding Dayton Yellow Springs, Clifton Gorge, John Bryan Park, etc. In the early 1970s, he built a log cabin,constructing it by the same methods used by pioneers. He also compiled the Wright BrothersChronology 1903-1908. In 1970 he was honored at a luncheon by the Dayton Area Chamber ofCommerce for outstanding contributions to the research of aviation history.His wife, Faith, died on September 25, 1972, after suffering a lengthy illness. They had beenmarried 46 years. Fred Marshall died in December 1974.Scope and Content:The Fred F. Marshall Papers document the life of a man who was a major contributor to aviationresearch and history in the 20th century. Through these papers, researchers may gain insight intophoto journalism during World War I, aviation innovation and history, as well as community lifeand issues in Dayton, Ohio, during the 20th century.Series I, Personal Papers, includes two subseries. The contents document Marshall’s personallife, military career, and various activities. Subseries IA, General Papers, containscorrespondence dealing with family and personal matters dating from 1940 to 1974. MaterialsMS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers4
are arranged chronologically by date. Subseries IB, Military Service, contains newspaperclippings, correspondence, and general information about Marshall’s military service. Portions ofthis series are available online in CORE Scholar.Series II, Writings and Publications, contains correspondence, rough drafts, final drafts, records,broadsides, magazines, posters, and a map. It is arranged primarily chronologically. Then, asthe feature stories have no dates, each file contains one feature story. The stories are dividedinto: fiction, Indian stories, conservation activities, individual men of the Dayton area, and avariety of poems. Each file containing one story is arranged with correspondence in thebeginning, then rough drafts, and final drafts at the end. This series also contains the rough andfinal drafts of The Wright Brothers Chronology, layouts, and the final story in the SundayMagazine, as well as the copyright claim of the Chronology. Portions of this series are availableonline in CORE Scholar.Series III, General Aviation, contains correspondence, magazines, and newspaper clippingscovering Fred Marshall’s interest in aviation as well as his work with the Aviation Hall of Fameand McCook Field. Material is arranged chronologically.Series IV, Slipstream, contains correspondence, telegrams, cards, membership applications forSlipstream, broadsides, volumes of Slipstream, and individual issues. Marshall’s The WrightBrothers Chronology is serialized and published in three issues of Slipstream. The volumes arecatalogued and shelved with the aviation books.Series V, PESCO, contains correspondence, certificates, blue books, address books, yearbooks, awallet, receipts, and cards all dealing with Fred Marshall’s work at the Pump EngineeringServices Company. Complete information concerning the trial of Marshall in the RenegotiationAct, with exhibits and trial outcome is included.Series VI, Audiovisual, contains four subseries. This series contains a number of photographs,negatives, records, and scrapbooks created by Fred Marshall during his lifetime and serves todocument his various activities. This series should be cross-referenced with the other series inthe collection.Subseries VIA, Photographs, contain photographs that pertain to Marshall’s life. Included arephotographs of Fred F. Marshall, Faith Marshall, the Marshall home, the Marshall log cabin,photographs from Marshall’s feature stories, World War I, aviation, the Wright brothers, andPESCO. Photographs are arranged by subject and are organized as chronologically as possible.Portions of this series, including the majority of Marshall’s World War I photographs, areavailable online in CORE Scholar.Subseries VIB, Negatives, contain negatives that belonged to Fred Marshall. Most of thesenegatives accompany prints that are housed in the collection. These negatives should be crossreferenced with subseries VIA and VIC.Subseries VIC, Records, contains five records. Three are duplicates of the “Miami River ValleySongs”.MS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers5
Subseries VID, Scrapbooks, contains eight scrapbooks that document Marshall’s personal life.Contents range from vacations to family life to poetry to articles about dogs, and also includesMarshall’s writings. Scrapbooks are arranged chronologically and by subject. Items that havefallen out of the scrapbooks are separated and located in Box 14.Series VII, Memorabilia contains three subseries. Subseries VIIA, General, Contains travelmaps, vacation souvenirs, brochures, menus, postcards, and other memorabilia that Fred andother members of the Marshall family collected. Subseries VIIB, Rose Society contains ribbons,correspondence, and newspaper clippings relating to Fred Marshall’s botanical hobby. SubseriesVIIC, Artifacts, contains three items: Fred’s Masonic Bible and two awards.Subject TermsPersons/FamiliesMarshall, Fred F., 1891-1974Organizations/Corporate NamesSlipstream PublicationsPlacesGreen County (Ohio) -- HistoryDayton (Ohio) -- HistoryCedarville (Ohio) -- HistoryParis (France)Hague (Netherlands)Subjects (General)World War, 1914-1918 – PhotographyAviation – Ohio -- DaytonAeronautics - - PeriodicalsMaterial S-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers6
Collection InventoryBoxFileDescriptionSeries I : Personal PapersSubseries IA: General Papers11Correspondence with Friends1111111111111234567891011121314Family CorrespondenceFamily CorrespondenceFamily CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral CorrespondenceGeneral 891011Greeting CardsXerox CopiesAddress BooksAddress BooksWallet CardsDiaryXerox Copies of Newspaper Articles Concerning Fredand his Interests“65 Rhymes of Outdoor Life”Articles About FredCorwin Miller Report CardsCertificates of DemeritWills of Fred and Faith MarshallMad River DeedLegal Documents222121314215Subseries IB: Military Service“The Hatchet” Navy PeriodicalCorrespondence with Government – Fred MarshallWWI Correspondence(Partial contents available online in CORE Scholar)WWI Mementos(Partial contents available online in CORE Scholar)MS-53: Fred F. Marshall 751941-19421946 April19641964-19671964-197219191944-1945Circa 1914-1918Circa 1914-19187
BoxFileDescriptionDate221617Military Training BooksCongress Correspondence1932-19421958-1975Series II: Writings and Publications31Jokes and poem “Homecoming”32Xerox Copies of Stories33Boyland Trail34Boyland Trail35Poems and Writings36Pioneer Industry Story37Memoirs of an Old Clock Story Told by the Old CrewClock Story38Deep Night Fantasies39Sleepy Tom310Gran’ther Stubbs311Needles Sisters312Potash Kettle Patriarch of Whortle Creek313Windmills and Wooden Shoes314Windmills and Wooden Shoes Drafts315Windmills and Wooden Shoes Final Copy316Rockville Story – Chapter 1317Civil War Trophy Flag318The Story of the Early Tavern319The Story of Old Grist Mill320Indian Stories321Lost Indian Mines of Greene County41Tecumseh42Darnell’s Leap Final Draft and Correspondence43Rough Drafts Darnell’s Leap44Darnell’s Leap Final Copy45The Odyssey of Massies Creek Covenanters46The Village Brook47Ohio’s Tree Monarchs48Sassafras Tree49Little Miami River of 116 Years Ago410Antioch’s Glen Helen411Blue Hole412Clifton Gorge413Ohio Hill Country414Yellow Springs415John Bryan416James Kyle417John PattersonMS-53: Fred F. Marshall tedUndated8
5567891011OS53555Hal ReidWhen Fanny Rode to Mill With Me, The Seeing EyeDog, When I Come Up From Cynthia, The Loyal FanUncle Gid Swears Off Hunting, McMillan StoryPoems, CartoonsJimtown Fair, Drummer Boy Who Poisoned My DogThe Stone House, The Day Ran Its Course, The IceFamily, Wrestling the Coal Stove Twice a YearAwful Weather, Johnny Appleseed, MelonsMiscellaneous Items Written by FredXeroxed Copies About Fred‘The Little Miami Eden’Various Newspaper StoriesFred’s Cartoons(Partial contents available online in CORE Scholar)Fred’s Cartoons atedUndatedUndatedUndated1963 July-Aug.1919-19711918Circa 191811B Fred’s Cartoons – Reference Prints12Fred Marshall’s Comments(Partial contents available online in CORE Scholar)12B Fred Marshall’s Comments – Reference Prints2Fred Marshall’s Comments – Reference Prints(Oversize)1“Wright Brothers” Correspondence2Rough Drafts3Rough Drafts to John Conley4First Draft5Second Draft6One Chapter Chronology7Three Chapters Chronology8Story of Wright Brothers9Copyright Claim Notes10“The Wright Brothers Chronology” Layout1“Where the Old Miami River Sings its Song”19181918-195731969 Aug. 24 1970 May 10“Dispatch Issues”Series III: General Aviation71Aviation Correspondence72Aviation Correspondence73Aviation Correspondence74Aviation CorrespondenceMS-53: Fred F. Marshall Papers1918-19571918-19571945, 1963, 2UndatedUndated1958-19641966-1968196919709
on CorrespondenceAviation CorrespondenceAviation CorrespondenceAviation CorrespondenceAviation NotesAviation Hall of FameXerox Copies of Fred’s Role in AviationAviation ClippingsMaterials for Aviation Manuscripts7OS53146Bill Jack HistoryAviation Photographs and Prints197119721973, datedUndated1978Series IV: Slipstream81Slipstream Issues82Slipstream Issues83Slipstream Issues84Slipstream Correspondence85Slipstream Correspondence86Slipstream Correspondence87Slipstream Correspondence88Slipstream Correspondence89Slipstream Correspondence810Slipstream Correspondence811Sale Transaction812Slipstream Items813Slipstream Items1920-19241925 Aug.-Dec.1926, dUndatedSeries V: PESCO814PESCO Correspondence Pamphlets815PESCO Mementos816Pictoral History of PESCO817Renegotiation Act of 1943 Rough Drafts818Renegotiation Act Booklet91Trial Information92Trial Information93Commission Reports94Commission Reports95Commission Reports96Beginning Information of Trial97Trial - Exhibits98Trial - : Fred F. Marshall Papers10
BoxFileDescriptionDate99910TrialTrial1945 Jan.-Apr.1945 Apr.-Dec.Series VI: AudiovisualSubseries VIA: Photographs101Bastille Day in France** Item-level descriptions at end of finding aid(Images available online in CORE Scholar)102Fred in WWI** Item-level descriptions at end of finding aid(Images available online in CORE Scholar)103Holland WWI** Item-level descriptions at end of finding aid(Images available online in CORE Scholar)104WWI and After** Item-level descriptions at end of finding aid(Images available online in CORE Scholar)105“Trilbytones”106Photographs of Faith and Fred Marshall107Photographs of Faith Marshall1010108910Photographs of Fred MarshallRose PhotographsMarshall’s Home111111123Log Cabin PhotographsAviation PhotographsUnidentified Photographs1141151111116781111129101122“Land of Windmills and Wooden Shoes” StoryPhotographs“Land of Windmills and Wooden Shoes” StoryPhotographs“Old Grist Mill” Story Photographs“Clifton Gorge” Story Photographs“Hal Reid” and “Ohio’s Tree Monarchs” StoryPhotographs“The Wright Brothers Chronology” Ph
Subseries IB, Military Service, contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and general information about Marshall’s military service. Portions of this series are available online in CORE Scholar. Series II, Writings and Publications, cont
