William Hampton Marshall was born on 20 April 1912 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He earned his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1933. He earned his M.F. in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1942 from the University of Michigan. From 1936 to 1938, Dr. Marshall worked as a junior biologist for the U.S. Biological Survey in Brigham City, Utah; from 1938-1943 he worked as a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Idaho; during World War II, Dr. Marshall was an agricultural supervisor in Idaho for the War Food Administration (1943-1944). Dr. Marshall joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1945 as associate professor of wildlife management.
During his tenure at Minnesota, Dr. Marshall was a professor of wildlife management (1949-1962), associate director of the Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station (1959-1962), director of Lake Itasca Station and Cedar Creek Natural History Area (1962-1966), professor of ecology and director of the field biology program (1966-1970) and professor of wildlife management and ecology (1970-1978). Dr. Marshall was one of the first researchers to use biotelemetry or banding and tracking of wildlife by radio transmitters. In 1978, Dr. Marshall retired from the University of Minnesota. William Marshall died in January 1996.
From the guide to the William H. Marshall papers, 1947-1982, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University of Minnesota Archives [uarc])
