Marshall was born in 1722 and never went to school after the age of twelve; yet (appropriately for a cousin of William Bartram, America’s most celebrated explorer/botanist) he published in 1785 “Arbustum Americanum, the American Grove,” the first botanical essay in the Western hemisphere!
Marshallton, four miles to the west of West Chester, also bears his name, for he acquired the land on which that village stands.
Humphry Marshall turns 300 in 2022! Click here for an article in Main Line Today which gives a great history of his life and legacy.