Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p.  174.  Jefferson County.

THOMAS A. MARSHALL, LL.D., the second son of Humphrey Marshall, was born
in Woodford county, Kentucky, January 15, 1794, and died in Louisville,
April 17, 1871, but was buried in Lexington.  In 1815 he was graduated
at Yale College and began the practice of law in Frankfort, Kentucky. In
1819 he removed to Paris, Kentucky, where he soon won renown by the
masterful way in which he handled the legal business entrusted to his
care.  In 1827 he was elected to represent Bourbon county in the Kentucky
house of representatives, and from 1831 until 1835 was a member of
congress from the Paris and Maysville district.  As a boy he had spent
some time in Washington with his father, and one day had climbed to the
top of one of the pillars, where, in a childish hand he wrote his name,
saying, "I want to see if it will be here when I come to congress."
Thirty years afterward he occupied a seat in the council chambers of the
nation and in his wise support of certain legislative measures engraved
his name far more deeply on the annals of his country than he had on
that pillar in the capitol.  In 1835 he removed to Lexington and in that
year was raised to the supreme bench of the state, where he remained for
twenty-one years.  He served from 1835 to 1856 and again for a short time
in 1866, and from 1847 to 1851, from 1854 to 1856, and again in 1866 was
the chief justice of Kentucky.  After his removal to Lexington he was
made one of the professors in the Transylvania Law School, where he
served from 1836 to 1849.  In 1857 he removed to Frankfort and in 1859
took up his residence in Louisville, where his remaining days were passed.
His last official act was his service as chief justice of Kentucky in
1866.  He gave his time thereafter to his extensive law practice and was
the peer of any member of the Kentucky bar.
     On the 26th of November, 1816, Judge Marshall was united in marriage
to Eliza Price, who was born May 1, 1795, a granddaughter of Colonel
Thomas Hart and a niece of Henry Clay.  She is said to have been the most
lovely woman in Kentucky.  While in Louisville the Judge and his wife
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.  She died November
17, 1875, and was laid to rest by the side of her honored husband.
Several of their sons have attained distinction, including Judge Charles
Marshall, of Paducah, Kentucky.  Judge Thomas Alexander Marshall was a
man of fine intellect, of high mental culture, genial disposition and
great amiability of character, was exceedingly popular and ranked among
the first men of Kentucky.  Judge James P. Harbeson said of him: "He was
a Christian gentleman, a classical scholar, and erudite jurist, and
altogether the greatest and best man I ever knew."

Marshall Price Hart Clay
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Woodford-KY Fayette-KY Franklin-KY Bourbon-KY McCracken-KY

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