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James Keith Marshall (18001862) 

Role

Bushrod Washington was a Supreme Court associate of James Keith Marshall's father.

Description

James Keith Marshall, a son of John Marshall, was born on 13 February 1800 in Richmond, Virginia. He briefly attended Harvard College, but violations committed therein led his father to place him in an apprenticeship with the firm of Willing & Francis. He was thereafter a planter in Fauquier County, which he represented in the Virginia legislature (183941, 185461).

Citations

John Marshall to Bushrod Washington, 16 March 1815, in Charles Hobson, ed., The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2014). 

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). 

James Keith Marshall at Find a Grave.

James Keith Marshall at FamilySearch.