Marshall Field IV

Marshall Field IV (June 15, 1916September 18, 1965) was the owner of the Chicago Daily News from 1956 to 1965. Early life and education Marshall Field IV was born in New York City on June 15, 1916, to Evelyn (née Marshall) Field and Marshall Field III. Among his siblings was Barbara Field, who also married three times (to Anthony Addison Bliss, Robert Kenneth Boggs, and George Peter Joseph Benziger, grandson of James Joseph Brown). Through his father's second marriage to Ruth Pruyn (the first wife of Ogden Phipps), he was the elder half-brother to Fiona Field, who married Jean Eugene Paul Kay. His maternal grandfather was merchant Charles Henry Marshall Jr. (who served as Commissioner of Docks and Ferries of the City of New York) and his paternal grandfather was Marshall Field Jr., the son of Marshall Field, the founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. His parents divorced and his mother remarried to Diego Suarez. His maternal uncle, Charles Henry Marshall III, was married to Brooke (née Russell) Kuser, the daughter of John H. Russell Jr. (16th Commandant of the Marine Corps). After his uncle's death, Brooke remarried to Vincent Astor in 1953. He was educated at Harvard University, and the University of Virginia School of Law.