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MARSHALL

MARSHALL, Nelly Nichol, author, was born in Louisville, Ky., May 8, 1844 ; daughter of Gen. Humphrey and Frances E. (McAllister) Marshall. She was married in February, 1871, to John J. McAfee of Mercer county, Ky., and ac- companied her Imsband to Frankfort where lie was a representative from Mercer county, 1871- 73. On one occasion she was occupying her hus- band's seat in his absence, when a vote was taken. She voted in his place, and amidst general hilar- ity, her vote was recorded. She began writing for the press in 1863 and subsequently devoted herself to literary pursuits. She is the author of : A Bunch of Violets; Leaves from the Book of My Heart ; Eleanor Morton ; or. Life tJi Dixie (1866) ; Fireside Gleanings (1866) ; Sodom Apples (1866) ; Dead under the Roses (1867) ; Wearing the Cross (1868) ; As by Fire (1869) ; Passion ; or. Bartered and Sold (1876) ; A Criminal through Love (1882), and many magazine articles. She died in Washington, D.C., April 19, 1898.

MARSHALL, Orsamus Holmes, historian, was born in Franklin, Conn., Feb. 1, 1813 ; son of Dr. John Ellis and Ruth (Holmes) Marshall ; grandson of Tiioraas and Sarah (Egerton) Mar- shall, of Norwich, Conn., and of Oi*samus and

Ruth (Webb) Holmes, and a descendant of Edmund Marshall, who came from Eng- land to Massachu- setts in 1636 and settled in New Lon- don, Conn., in 1648. Dr. John E. Marshall was a pioneer settler of Buffalo, N.Y., served as surgeon during the war of 1812 and practised medicine in Buffalo until his death in 1838. Orsamus was prepared for college at the Polytechnic school, Chittenango, N.Y., and the Partridge Military school, Buffalo, N.Y., and was graduated at Union college in 1831. He studied law in Buffalo, attended a course of law lectures at Yale in 183a-84 ; was admitted to tlie bar at Albany, N.Y., in October, 1834, and practised in Buffalo. 1834-67, when he retired. He was mar- ried, Feb. 20, 1838, to Millicent Ann, daughter of Pascal de Angelis, a pioneer settler of western New York. He declined the appointments by President Fillmore of commissioner to China and assistant postmaster-general. He was a founder and president of the Buffalo Historical society in 1862, a member and president of the l>oard of trustees of the Grosvenor library, of the Buffalo

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Female academy, and of the Univereity of Buffalo, and chancellor of the last, 1882-84. He was also a trustee of the Society of Natural Sciences of Buffalo ; president of the Thomas Orphan Asylum for Indian Children, and U.S. commissioner for the northern district of New Y'ork, 1868-84. He gained a wide reputation as the historian of the Indians of western New York, receiving much of the data for his work from Red Jacket and other Indian chiefs. He contributed many imijortant papers to magazines and to the proceedings of historical societies, which were collected by his son Charles D. ]\Iar- shall and published as Historical Writings of Orsamus H. Marshall (1887). He died in Buffalo, N.Y., July9, 1884.

MARSHALL, Samuel S., representative, was born in Gallatin county. 111., March 18, 1821 ; son of Daniel and Sophia (Walker) Marshall, natives of Ireland, who settled in Illinois earlj' in the 19th century. He attended Cumberland college. Ky., was admitted to the bar in 1845, and prac- tised in McLeansboro, 111. He wa^ a representa- tive in the Illinois legislature in 1847 ; state's attorney for the 3d judicial circuit of Illinois, 1847-49, and judge of the 7th judicial circuit, 1851-54. He was a Democratic representative from the ninth Illinois district in the'34th and 85th congresses, 1855-59. His seat in the 34th congress was unsuccessfully contested under the clause in the state constitution, declaring all judges in the state ineligible to any other office, state or federal, during the term for which they were elected and for one year after. He was judge of the 12th Illinois circuit, 1861-64 ; and again represented his district in the 39th, 40tli, 41st, 42d and 43tl congresses, serving 1865-75. He was a delegate from the state at large to the Democratic national conventions of 1860 and 1864, and to the Loyalists' convention, Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1866. He received the entire Demo- cratic vote of the joint assembly of the Illinois legislature for U.S. stuiator in 1861, and the Dem- ocratic vote of the U.S. liouse of representatives for speaker of that body in 1867, and was presi- dent of the board of managei-s of Hamilton col- lege, 1875-80. He never married. He died in Hamilton county. 111., July 26, 1890.

MARSHALL, Thomas, soldier, was born in Washington jmrish, Westmoreland county, Va., April 2, 1730 ; son of John and Elizabeth (Mark- ham) Marshall ; grandson of Thomas and Martha Marshall and great grandson of John Mai shall, Jamestown, Va., 16r)0. He attended the Rev. Archibald Campbell's school, studied to be a surveyor, assisted Washington in surveying the Lord Fairfax estates and was presented with a large tract of land in Henry county, Va., for his services. Upon the outbreak of the French and