Karl, thank you for the inquiry. I rarely come here but this morning just happened to and saw the thread. Thank you M.C. for responding to his inquiry.
Since the research begun here by James Barnes and myself and greatly aided by many members of this forum I have not focused on T.L., Jr. but instead have been mostly living back in the 17th and 18th Centuries with his Dutch ancestors in New Jersey trying to find some lost cousins of his line.
Over the years Jim (primarily) and I have continued to look at T.L., Jr's estate in Maryland.
We know that T. L, Jr had money from both sides of his family. His mother and his father. He retired at a very early age and he and Lillian left their mountain top home in Montclair to move to the historic My Lord's Gift in Maryland. We know his daughter Barbara married into a prominent family of New Yorkers named Lucke and had one child, a son.
In case you do not have the info I have copied portions of a post I made on the Essex County, NJ Message Board at rootsweb or ancestry.com in October 2005:
T.L, Jr had attended the Cutler School in NY before attending Harvard (A.B.1904). Lillian Davenport and he were married 6 June, 1914 at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn where her parents lived.
(As best I recall the young couple lived in Verona for a while)
T.L, Jr started as a specialist on the New York Curb Exchange (now the American Stock Exchange) where he was a charter member. In 1917 he formed the firm of Thomas Marsalis & Company at 11 Wall Street. In 1918 he spent a few months as a First Lt. in the Motor Transport Corps. By 1930 he had moved to a 750 acre farm, My Lord's Gift, Queenstown, MD where for a time he raised purebred Guernseys and several crops. He remained a senior partner in his NY firm but seldom went back.
In Queenstown he was president of the Queenstown Bank of Maryland, in WWII he was on the Queen Anne Co War Board, on the County Transportation Committee and in the Aircraft Warning Service. Lillian and he were very active in Eastern shore society.
Barbara, their only daughter was born in 1915 and died in 1963. She grew up in Montclair and attended the Kimberly School. By 1919 T.L and Lillian and Barbara had built a house on Crestmont Rd on the side of Montclair Mt.
Barbara married Charles E. Lucke of NYCity in Queenstown MD. Many residents of Montclair attended according to newspaper accounts.
That is all the pertinent info I have on T.L, Jr. Within the last few months an updated revised bio of T.L.,based mostly on the report James Barnes and I wrote, was posted at Texas Handbook Online. I have often thought that Junior being a native of Dallas should have his own bio and this adds to that thought. From all indications he was a fine man and , though blessed with money and material goods, led a successful, productive life by his own merits.
Edited to finish the post which somehow posted too early. Anyway this edit is to say that T.L., Jr 's and Lillian Davenport Marsalis' grave markers can be found online at Find A Grave. Look for Old Wye Episcopal , Talbot County, Maryland, Thomas Marsalis 1884 - 1966
Lillian Davenport Marsalis 1892 - 1963.
Since the research begun here by James Barnes and myself and greatly aided by many members of this forum I have not focused on T.L., Jr. but instead have been mostly living back in the 17th and 18th Centuries with his Dutch ancestors in New Jersey trying to find some lost cousins of his line.
Over the years Jim (primarily) and I have continued to look at T.L., Jr's estate in Maryland.
We know that T. L, Jr had money from both sides of his family. His mother and his father. He retired at a very early age and he and Lillian left their mountain top home in Montclair to move to the historic My Lord's Gift in Maryland. We know his daughter Barbara married into a prominent family of New Yorkers named Lucke and had one child, a son.
In case you do not have the info I have copied portions of a post I made on the Essex County, NJ Message Board at rootsweb or ancestry.com in October 2005:
T.L, Jr had attended the Cutler School in NY before attending Harvard (A.B.1904). Lillian Davenport and he were married 6 June, 1914 at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn where her parents lived.
(As best I recall the young couple lived in Verona for a while)
T.L, Jr started as a specialist on the New York Curb Exchange (now the American Stock Exchange) where he was a charter member. In 1917 he formed the firm of Thomas Marsalis & Company at 11 Wall Street. In 1918 he spent a few months as a First Lt. in the Motor Transport Corps. By 1930 he had moved to a 750 acre farm, My Lord's Gift, Queenstown, MD where for a time he raised purebred Guernseys and several crops. He remained a senior partner in his NY firm but seldom went back.
In Queenstown he was president of the Queenstown Bank of Maryland, in WWII he was on the Queen Anne Co War Board, on the County Transportation Committee and in the Aircraft Warning Service. Lillian and he were very active in Eastern shore society.
Barbara, their only daughter was born in 1915 and died in 1963. She grew up in Montclair and attended the Kimberly School. By 1919 T.L and Lillian and Barbara had built a house on Crestmont Rd on the side of Montclair Mt.
Barbara married Charles E. Lucke of NYCity in Queenstown MD. Many residents of Montclair attended according to newspaper accounts.
That is all the pertinent info I have on T.L, Jr. Within the last few months an updated revised bio of T.L.,based mostly on the report James Barnes and I wrote, was posted at Texas Handbook Online. I have often thought that Junior being a native of Dallas should have his own bio and this adds to that thought. From all indications he was a fine man and , though blessed with money and material goods, led a successful, productive life by his own merits.
Edited to finish the post which somehow posted too early. Anyway this edit is to say that T.L., Jr 's and Lillian Davenport Marsalis' grave markers can be found online at Find A Grave. Look for Old Wye Episcopal , Talbot County, Maryland, Thomas Marsalis 1884 - 1966
Lillian Davenport Marsalis 1892 - 1963.
