Marquis, Samuel Simpson (1866-1948)

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Peace Ship (1915-1916)

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 19, 1916

Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett to Jane Addams, October 15, 1920

Henry Ford et al. to Jane Addams, December 7, 1915

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Birth Date

1866-06-08

Death Date

1948-06-21

Birthplace

Sharon, OH

Biographical Text

Samuel Simpson Marquis was born into a family with generations of Episcopalian ministers and followed in that line of work. After a public school education, he enrolled in Allegheny College to pursue ecclesiastical studies, then attended Cambridge Theology School in Massachusetts where he earned a bachelor of divinity degree in 1893. Marquis and his family settled in Detroit where he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1906. It was shortly after arriving in Detroit that Marquis made fast allies of Henry and Clara Ford, who were interested in making religion more accessible to the workingman. After almost 10 years at St. Paul's Cathedral, Marquis left the church to volunteer for the Ford Motor Company Sociological Department, and would later become the Director of the department. It was Marquis, at Clara Ford's request, who accompanied Henry Ford on his failed 1915 Peace Ship expedition to Europe, and helped Ford exit Europe undetected when he contracted a sickness once the ship landed in Oslo, Norway. Marquis did not enjoy a long-lived partnership with Ford, leaving the company in 1921 sensing Ford's decreasing interest in the Sociological Department. Marquis went on to assist in the founding of Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and stayed on as rector until his retirement.

Samuel Marquis married Gertrude Lee Snyder in 1894. They had four children: Dorothy, Barbara Lee, Rogers Isreal, and Gertrude Lee. Marquis died in retirement in 1948.

Occupation

Clergyman

Source

Picture: Marquis (left) with Henry Ford on the deck of S.S. Oscar II, 1915. Bryan, Ford R. Ford's Lieutenants. Wayne State Press University, 2003. p. 208.

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1916

Bibliography and Links

"Rector to Work in Ford Factory," Sacramento Union. December 12, 1915.

Bryan, Ford R. "Samuel Simpson Marquis." Ford's Lieutenants. Wayne State Press University, 2003. p. 205-210.

Samuel Simpson Marquis, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950

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“Marquis, Samuel Simpson (1866-1948),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 7, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/8377.