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Louis Marshall (1772/73–1866)

Role

Bushrod Washington was a Supreme Court associate of Louis Marshall's brother.

Description

Louis Marshall, a younger brother of John Marshall, was born on 7 October 1772 or 1773 in Fauquier County, Virginia. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris before setting up a practice in Kentucky. Marshall left the medical profession to establish a classical school for boys. He later served as president of present-day Washington and Lee University (1830–34) and professor of ancient languages and president of Transylvania University. Marshall and wife Agatha Preston Smith (c. 1780–1844) had six children, three of whom would serve in the U.S.

Citations

"Louis Marshall." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310008289/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=97c388a0. Accessed 26 Oct. 2023.

W.M. Paxton and Book Traces Project, The Marshall Family, or A Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connected with Them (Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1885), 69–71.

Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Martha Cary Jaquelin, and Edward Jaquelin, Some Prominent Virginia Families (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, c. 1907), Volume II, 471–72.

Kentucky Gazette (Lexington), 15 October 1840, page 4, column 5 (Newspapers.com).

Louis Marshall at The University of Edinburgh Historical Alumni.

Dr Louis Marshall at Find a Grave.

Lewis Marshall at FamilySearch.