History or ownership of DeBruhl Marshall Mansion

John Quitman Marshall was one busy man.  He was alternately Secretary of State, Judge, Lawyer, Swore in Wade Hampton as Governor, Streetcar developer, Electric Power developer, Completed State House, Restored DeBruhl Marshall House, in charge of paving Columbia streets, active in Columbia's social scene, fought constantly for money and talent
to complete the State House, prosecuted demon contractors, just to name a few of his accomplishments.  He died relatively
young at 59. It was said of him he worked himself to death for the good of Columbia and her citizens. In the restoration of
the DeBruhl Marshall house at the turn of the century, he removed the old leaders and replaced the roof with slate or wood shingles  and brought the old staircase from the old courthouse and installed it in the back hall of the DeBruhl Marshall mansion.  The leaders (downspouts) had the Mills mark and date according to some Mills historians, but the leaders are long ago vanished without a written record as yet discovered.  One of these days, possibly some document will surface
telling was was engraved on the gutters and downspouts.  We can only hope. 

I just received this from Robert Olguin of Historic Columbia.  He is the chief historian/archaeologist/restorer at the DeBruhl Marshall House. 

 

Timeline of Owners

 

1820―1860                 Jesse DeBruhl

 

1861―1905                Mary C. Wiley (DeBruhl’s widow) and John S. Wiley

 

1905                            Sold to Palmetto Bank; immediately sold to William Jesse DeBruhl (Mary and Jesse’s son) and then sold to Janie B. Marshall

 

1905―1919                 Janie B. Marshall ( the widow of J.Q. Marshall Sr., son of John Foster Marshall and Jesse DeBruhl’s daughter, Elizabeth A. Marshall, by his first wife, Eliza Donovan)

 

1919―1947                 James Hagood Sams and Caroline E. Sams

 

1947―1972                 May Bond S. Rhodes

 

1972―1989                 DeBruhl-Marshall Company (Phillip Kenneth Huggins, Robert Nicholson Milling, Roger K. Rutledge, A. Sale Estefano, Bob C. Schnackenberg, Frank A. Cheano, and Cynthia S. Hamilton)

 

1989―2014                 South Carolina Tees Incorporated (William Maxwell Gregg, to whose name the deed was transferred in 1997)

 

2014―present             Wanda Gale Breedlove