The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Marshall, Louis

MARSHALL, Louis, American lawyer: b. Syracuse, N. Y., 14 Dec 1856. He was educated in the Syracuse public and high schools and at the law school of Columbia University. In 1878 he began practice at Syracuse. He is now member of the firm of Guggenheimer, Untermeyer and Marshall. He has argued many importing causes in the higher courts, specializing especially in constitutional and corporation law. Mr. Marshall was a member of the New York Constitutional conventions of 1890, 1894 and 1915; served on the commission appointed by Mayor Low, in 1902, to investigate East Side conditions; chairman of the State Immigration Commission appointed by Governor Hughes in 1908 and counsel for William Sulzer in his impeachment trial. Mr. Marshall was also counsel for Leo M. Frank in the United States Supreme Court. He was prominent in the movement for the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia. He was mediator in settling the cloakmakers' strike in 1910, and prepared the protocol of settlement which has since been the basis of numerous strike adjustments. He has taken an active part in Jewish charitable work and has lectured before many learned and philanthropic societies. Mr. Marshall has been a trustee of Syracuse University since 1910.