HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis
Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, 
Vol. III, pp. 1273-74-75.  [Woodford County]

LOUIS MARSHALL--The able and popular cashier of the Woodford Bank & Trust
Company of Versailles is a scion of a family whose name has been identified
with the annals of American history from the early Colonial epoch and one
which has given to the nation many of its most distinguished patriots and
statesmen, including Hon. John Marshall, chief justice of the United States
supreme court.  The history of Kentucky gives ample data concerning the
prominent part which the Marshall family has here played in connection with
civic and material development and upbuilding and within the limitations of
the present review it is impossible to give more than a brief outline
touching the genealogy.
     On the beautiful family homestead known as Buck Pond, in Woodford
county, Kentucky, Louis Marshall was ushered into the world on the 4th of
July, 1856.  He is a son of Hon. Edward Colston Marshall, who was born on
the same old homestead in 1821.  The latter was a son of Dr. Louis Marshall
who was born at Oak Hill, Fauquier county, Virginia, on the 7th of October,
1773.  Dr. Marshall was a son of Colonel Thomas Marshall, who was born in
Washington parish, Westmoreland county, Virginia, on the 2nd of April,
1730, and who was a son of Captain John Marshall (of the forest), the
latter having been born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, about 1700.
Captain John Marshall was a son of Thomas Marshall, who was born in eastern
Virginia about the year 1675 and who was a son of Captain John Marshall,
who served as captain in a cavalry regiment in England during the reign of
King Charles I.  This distinguished ancestor was born and reared in Ireland
and was a zealous supporter of the crown and of the established church of
England.  He was one of the first to offer his services to Charles I and
after the accession of Cromwell he found conditions so obnoxious that he
came to the colony of Virginia, where he established his home about the
year 1650.  He was an active participant in the Indian wars of the colony
and Campbell's history of Virginia gives him credit for having been the
most potent factor in bringing about a termination of hostilities.  Thomas
Marshall removed from the eastern part of the Old Dominion to Washington
parish, Westmoreland county, where he died in May, 1704.  He was a
successful planter and was a zealous communicant of the church of England.
Captain John Marshall (of the forest) married Elizabeth Markahm and he
became seized of a large landed estate on Appomattox creek, in Washington
parish, Westmoreland county, Virginia.  He served as captain in the
militia and was a man of distinctive prominence and influence in his
community.  He continued to reside in Westmoreland county until his death,
which occurred in 1752.
     Colonel Thomas Marshall, great-grandfather of him whose name initiates
this sketch, was, according to well authenticated family tradition, a
classmate of General Washington, whom he often attended in various
surveying expeditions.  During the French & Indian war he served as
lieutenant of volunteers and after his father's death the family removed to
the vicinity of Germantown, Fauquier county, Virginia, where he accepted
the agency for the immense landed estate owned by Lord Fairfax.  He was an
uncompromising patriot and when the war of the Revolution was precipitated
he was found duly prepared to do his part in furtherance of the cause of
independence.  After the formal organization of his regiment he was made
its major and he distinguished himself at the battle of Great Bridge, the
first Revolutionary engagement on Virginia soil.  He was with the
Continental forces at Valley Forge and when General Mercer was killed, at
Germantown, he succeeded to the latter's command.  In the battle of
Brandywine his horse was killed under him and history gives him definite
credit for having saved the patriot army from destruction at this time. In
recognition of his gallant services the Virginia house of burgesses
presented him with a magnificent sword.  Many years later this valuable
heirloom was presented by one of his granddaughters to the historical
society of Maysville, Kentucky.  Colonel Marshall was frequently called
upon to serve as a member of the Virginia house of burgesses and was a
member of the convention that declared independence for that colony. In
1779 Colonel Marshall, in command of the Third Virginia regiment, was sent
to reinforce General Lincoln in South Carolina.  He arrived in time to be
beleaguered with Lincoln's forces at Charlestown, that state, and to share
in the surrender of that city to the British.  He finally was paroled and
with other officers made a trip to Kentucky on horseback, in 1780.  It was
on this memorable journey through the wilderness that he located the fine
old ancestral plantation, to which he gave the name of Buck Pond and upon
which he established his home in the year mentioned.  Shortly afterward
he was appointed surveyor general of lands in Kentucky.  In 1785 he brought
his family to this state, making the trip down the Ohio river on a flat
boat.  In 1787 he represented Fayette county, of which Woodford county was
then a part, in the Virginia legislature and in the following year he was
elected a delegate to the convention which met at Danville, Kentucky, to
formulate and adopt a state constitution.  Later he served as United
States collector of internal revenue for this state.  In the year 1800 he
resigned his beautiful homestead, upon which he had made the best of
improvements, to his youngest son, Louis, and then went to live with his
son Thomas at Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, where he died on the 2nd
of June, 1802.  On the 2nd of April, 1730, Colonel Thomas Marshall was
united in marriage to Miss Mary Randolph Keith, a daughter of Parson James
and Mary Islam (Randolph) Keith.  Parson Keith was born in Scotland and
came thence to America, about 1720, when he established his home in
Virginia.  His wife was a daughter of Thomas Randolph, of Tuckahoe, who
was the second son of William Randolph, of Turkey Island, and therefore
closely related to the historic character, John Randolph, of Roanoke, as
well as to Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee.
     Dr. Louis Marshall, youngest son of Colonel Thomas Marshall and
grandfather of Louis Marshall, of Versailles, Kentucky, was sent to
Edinburgh, Scotland, to complete his literary and scientific studies and
he then went to the city of Paris for instruction in medicine and surgery.
At that climacteric period in French history he became an ardent republican
and with a number of fellow students he participated in the attack on the
Bastile.  He was present at the massacre of the Swiss guard, witnessed the
murder of the Princes de Lamballe and at the time of the Reign of Terror
he was arrested and condemned to death.  He was confined in prison for a
considerable period and was finally liberated through the intercession of
his brother, John, the distinguished chief justice of the United States
supreme court.  Upon his return to America Dr. Marshall established his
residence upon the old homestead in Woodford County, Kentucky, and here he
attained prestige as the most erudite and successful physician and
surgeon in the state.  He was a man of the highest intellectual powers and
manifested the inherent family talent and propensity for teaching.  His
interest in educational work was signally shown by his gathering at his
country home the most promising young men of Kentucky, to whom he gave
instruction in his well ordered private school.  In 1838 he was chosen
president of Washington and Lee University, of Virginia, and in 1855 he was
president of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.  He attained to
the patriarchal age of ninety-three years and his name merits and enduring
place upon the roll of the distinguished men of the fine old commonwealth
which represented his home during the major part of his long and useful
life.  Dr. Marshall married Miss Agatha Smith, who was born in 1782 and
whose death occurred in May, 1844.
     Hon. Edward Colston Marshall, son of Dr. Louis and Agatha (Smith)
Marshall, was reared to maturity on the old homestead of which so frequent
mention has already been made, and besides the refining influences of a
cultured home he was afforded the best of educational advantages, having
attended in turn Washington College, in Virginia; Center College, at
Danville, Kentucky; and Transylvania University, at Lexington, this state.
Through careful study he admirably prepared himself for the work of the
legal profession and after his admission to the bar he engaged in the
practice of law at Nicholasville, Jessamine county, Kentucky.  Early in
1847 he enlisted for service in the Mexican war and in this connection he
was commissioned first lieutenant in a regiment of United Stated Infantry,
later being promoted captain of his company.  He served until May, 1848,
when he received his honorable discharge.  In the following year he joined
the ever memorable exodus of gold seekers who were making their way across
the plains to the new Eldorado in California, where he became prominent and
influential in public affairs in the pioneer days of that state. In 1851
he was elected the first representative of California in congress and in
1856 he returned to Kentucky, where he showed his affection for and
appreciation of the gracious associations of the old Buck Pond homestead
by purchasing the same from his father.  He became associated with others
in the founding of the Lexington Daily Press and in the same year he was
an independent candidate for congress, but was defeated.  After the
election he returned to California and there he was elected attorney
general of the state.  He there passed the residue of his life and he died
in the city of San Francisco, in the year 1883.  His wife, whose maiden
name was Josephine Chalfont, was born in Ohio and was a daughter of
Robert Chalfont.  She likewise passed the closing years of her life in
California, where she died in 1893, and of the children the subject of
this sketch is the only one now living.  The parents were communicants of
the Protestant Episcopal church and the father was a man who well
maintained the traditions and honors of the family name.
     Louis Marshall, the immediate subject of this review, gained his early
educational discipline in the schools of Kentucky and as a young man he
accompanied his parents on their removal to California. In the city of San
Francisco he became a successful stock-broker and there he held membership
in the Stock Exchange.  About 1896 he returned to Kentucky and established
his home at Versailles.  He also, with signal consistency and appreciation,
purchased the ancestral homestead, upon which stands the fine old Colonial
residence built by Colonel Thomas Marshall about the year 1780.  This
valuable property he still retains.  Shortly after establishing his home in
Versailles Mr. Marshall was elected cashier of the Woodford County Bank &
Trust Company, of which position he is still incumbent, and he is
recognized as one of the able and discriminating financiers of his native
state.  He has never had aught of ambition for public office, though he is
essentially progressive and public-spirited in his attitude, and his
political allegiance is given to the Democratic party.
     At San Francisco, California, in the year 1883, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Marshall to Miss Susie Thorne, a daughter of Isaac and
Susan (Bryant) Thorne the former of whom was numbered among the sterling
pioneers of California.  Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have two children, Edith,
who remains at the paternal home, and Josephine, who is the wife of
Laurance A. Raley, a native of Kentucky, a scion of an old and
influential family of this state and now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia.

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