Marshall Field III

About

Heir to the family department store fortune. He founded the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper and the Parade magazine supplement.

Before Fame

He went to work as a bond trader in Chicago after World War I, eventually founding his own investment firm.

Trivia

He was a noted philanthropist with substantial gifts to the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was a trustee.

Family Life

His first wife, Audrey James Coats, was the goddaughter of King Edward VII.

Associated With

He bought the Simon & Schuster publishing company in 1944, but his heirs returned it to its founders, Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster.