Jeff Marshall
by Robyn McCloskey
Jeffrey Marshall, president of the Heritage Conservancy of Bucks County loves going to work every day. He has worked for the Conservancy for 34 years and has been president for the past year and a half. He started working for the Conservancy all those years ago when his mother saw that Upper Makefield Township was looking for someone to work part-time as a documenter of old homes. Knowing this was right up her son’s alley, having graduated from Penn State with a major in Early American History, she passed along the information. Jeff applied for the job and the rest, as they say, is history, no pun intended.
Although Jeffrey was born in Brooklyn, NY, while still a young boy, his father’s stint in the Navy brought the family to Bucks County in order for his dad to work at the old Philadelphia Naval Yard. The Marshall family put down roots in Levittown. Along the way Jeff has lived in Doylestown and currently lives in Newtown on a farm with his beloved wife Becky. Jeff first met Becky over 30 years ago while having lunch at Bucks County Community College. He was not a student at the school, but as he recounts, “There weren’t too many places to eat-out back then in Newtown.” So he often found himself eating at the BCCC cafeteria. It was there that he met his future wife, who was an actual student at the school. They soon married and now have two grown children, son David, a political activist and daughter Amanda who works at a boutique in Doylestown and shares her parent’s passion for the family farm as well as their horses.
Jeff credits having grown up in Levittown for his love of land, nature and history; he wistfully speaks of his childhood and how he whiled away countless hours along the creek by his house.
To finish reading this article, turn to page 34 in the Summer 2013 issue of Bucks County Magazine.