Marshall, Alexander Keith – Marshall, Thomas Alexander
Marshall, Alexander Keith
lawyer, author, was born in 1770, in Fauquier county, Va. During 1817-21 he published the Reports of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, in three volumes. He died in 1825, in Mason county, Ky.
Marshall, Alfred
congressman.
He served four years in the Maine legislature in 1827, 1828, 1834, and 1835; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1841 to 1843. From 1846 to 1849 he was collector at Belfast, Maine; and was also, for some years, a general of the state militia.
Marshall, Chester C
agriculturist, state legislator, was born Sept. 23, 1862, in Hancock county, Ohio. In 1881 he moved to Nebraska, where he established with his brother, the Arlington Nursery and Fruit farm. In 1896 he was elected to the Nebraska state legislature; and took an active part on various committees.
Marshall, Christopher
patriot, was born Nov. 6, 1709, in Ireland. His Remembrancer is one of the most valuable diaries that was kept during the revolution. The manuscript was presented to the Pennsylvania Historical society by his great-great-grandson, Charles Marshall, of Germantown, in 1839. He died May 4, 1797, in Philadelphia.
Marshall, Edward Chauncey
educator, journalist, author, was born July 8, 1824, in Little Falls, N. Y. He is the author of Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; and Ancestry of General Grant.
Marshall, Edward Colston
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 in Woodford, Ky. In 1849 he went to California, where he sat in the legislature, and was elected to congress as a democrat, serving from 1851 till 1853. In 1878 he was elected attorneygeneral of that state.
Marshall, George A
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1851, in Shelby county, Ohio. He served eight years as prosecuting attorney of Shelby county, Ohio, being elected in 1878, 1880, and again in 1883. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. a
Marshall, George Alpheus
educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 17, 1836, in Northumberland, N. H. After receiving liberal education in the common and grammar schools, he attended the university of Vermont, and received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.
He has been county superintendent of schools; district attorney; is prominent in several fraternal orders; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state. He has written numerous magazine articles for the periodical press; and since 1867 has practiced his profession in Darlington, Wis. He has made a complete abstract of titles of his county, and is the proprietor of the La Fayette County Abstract company.
Marshall, Humphrey
botanist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1722, in Marshallton. He was a famous botanist of Marshallton, Pa. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages. He died Nov. 5, 1801, in Marshallton, Pa.
Marshall, Humphrey
state legislator, United States senator, author, was born in 1756 in Westmoreland county, Va.
He was among the earliest pioneers to Kentucky, having gone there in 1780. He served for many years in the state legislature; and was a senator in congress from 1795 to 1801. He was the author of the first published History of Kentucky.
He died July 1, 1841, near Frankfort, Ky.
Marshall, Humphrey
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1812, in Frankfort, Ky. He was elected to congress from Kentucky in 1849 as a representative, and re-elected in 1851.
He was appointed by President Fillmore commissioner to China, which was immediately raised to a first-class mission; and on his return was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth congress; and in 1857 re-elected to congress. He died March 28, 1872, in Louisville, Ky. was
Marshall, James
lawyer, jurist.
He was one of the earliest settlers in the District of Columbia, after the removal of the seat of government; and in 1801 was appointed circuit judge of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Marshall, James
clergyman, educator, college president, was born about 1834 in Grove, N. Y. He commenced life as a schoolteacher, and subsequently became an eminent clergyman. He founded the Westminster Presbyterian church of Troy, N. Y.; and built several other churches. In 1887 he accepted the presidency of Coe college of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is best known as an organizer, pastor and educator; has published numerous war sermons, and contributed extensively to church literature. He died in September, 1896.
Marshall, James W
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 31, 1844, in Augusta county, Va.
He was elected to the Virginia senate in 1875, and served four years; and was elected a member of the general assembly of Virginia in 1882-83. He was elected commonwealth attorney for Craig county in 1884, and served till 1888, inclusive.
He was elected to the Virginia senate in 1891 for term of four years; served in same session of 1891-92, and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Marshall, John
soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, author, was born Sept. 24, 1755, in Germantown, Va. He was a member of the Virginia convention to ratify the constitution of the United States. He also entered the legislature of Virginia, where he was a leader. He was a representative in congress in 1799.
In 1801 he was confirmed as chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. He wrote a Life of George Washington, and a History of the American Colonies. He died July 6, 1835, in Philadelphia.
Marshall, John
soldier, journalist, was born in 1823 in Virginia. In 1853 he became the owner and editor of the State Gazette of Austin, Texas. He called and was the cause of the convening of the first democratic state convention in Texas, and was given the title of the Warwick of Texas. He entered the confederate army as major of the fourth Texas infantry, and was promoted to colonel; and was killed at Gaines Mills in 1862.
Marshall, John Jay
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born Aug. 4, 1785, in Woodford county, Ky.
He served in the Kentucky legislature for many years. From 1829 till 1833 he was reporter of the court of appeals, and from 1836 till his death he was judge of the circuit court of Louisville. He published Reports of Cases at Law and Equity in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. He died in June, 1846, in Louisville, Ky.
Marshall, Joseph Glass
jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. 18, 1800, in.
Fayette county, Ind. In 1830 he was appointed judge of the probate court of Jefferson county, Ind. Subsequently he served several terms in both branches of the state legislature.
Marshall, Nelly Nichol
author,. was born May 8, 1845, in Louisville, Ky.
She is a successful writer of Louisville, Ky.
Marshall, Orsamus Holmes
au-- thor, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Franklin, Conn. He was the author of numer-- ous historical works. He aied July 9, 1884,. in Buffalo, N. Y.
Marshall, Roujet D
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 26, 1847, in Nashua, N. H. During 1876-83 he was county judge: in Wisconsin; in 1888 was elected circuit. judge, and re-elected in 1894. In 1895 he was appointed to the supreme bench, and received the re-election to that office in. 1896 for the term expiring in 1908.
Marshall, Samuel S
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator,. was born in 1824 in Gallatin county, Ill.
He was elected to the Illinois state legis-- lature in 1847; was elected state's attorney, serving two years; and in 1851 was. elected a judge of the circuit court, in which position he remained until 1854. He was elected to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses from Illinois. He was elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat. In 1867 he received the unanimous vote of his party in the minois legislature for United States senator.
Marshall, T. Marcellus
clergyman, missionary, educator, was born May 17, 1851, in Stout's Mills, W. Va. During 1893-94 he was teacher in the great Indian school of Carlisle, Pa.; and since 1894 has been a presbyterian missionary in West Virginia and Kentucky.
Marshall, Thomas
soldier, was born Oct. 27, 1761, in Fauquier county, Va.
He served in the revolution, and attained the rank of captain. He settled in Kentucky in 1790, and was an active member of the convention that framed the second constitution of the state in 1799.
He died March 19, 1817, in Mason county, Ky.
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Marshall, Thomas
soldier, was born April 13, 1793, in Mason county, Ky.
He was in the Kentucky legislature several times between 1817 and 1844, serving one term as speaker of that body. was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Mexican war, and commanded a Kentucky brigade. He died March 28, 1853, in Lewis county, Ky.
Marshall, Thomas Alexander
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1794, in Woodford county, Ky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835; and was a judge and chief justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky for about twenty years. He was a professor of law in the Transylvania college; and also served in the legislature of Kentucky. He died April 17, 1861, in Louisville, Ky.