BIO: Narshall Family; Buffalo, Erie co., NY.
Surname: Marshall, Holmes, De Angelis

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MEMORIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY NEW YORK
VOLUME I, BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL, ILLUSTRATED, PUB. 1906-8

JOHN ELLIS MARSHALL was born at Norwich, Conn., March 18, 1785. He began the
study of medicine with Dr. Philemon Tracy, of Norwich, being licensed to
practice in 1808. Soon afterward he opened an office in Oxford, N. Y., and the
following year removed to Mayville, Chautauqua County. He was Clerk of
Chautauqua County in 1811, and in 1812, and Surgeon to the Second Regiment of
the New York State Militia. He served five months with the army defending the
Niagara Frontier, and later served through the campaign of 1814. In 1815, he
removed to Buffalo. He was corresponding Fellow of the Medical and
Philosophical Society of New York City, a member of the Medical Society of
Geneva College, and President and Treasurer of the Erie County Medical
Society. During the cholera epidemic of 1832, he was Health Physician. He was
Clerk of Niagara County from 1819 until 1821. He was a prominent Mason and a
ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church, of Buffalo.

September 12, 1810, Dr. Marshall married Ruth Holmes, daughter of Orsarnus
Holmes, of Sheridan, N. Y. The issue of this union was one son, Orsanmus
Holmes Marshall. Dr. Marshall died in Buffalo, December 27, 

ORSAMUS HOLMES MARSHALL was born in Franklin, Conn., February 1, 1813, and
came with his parents to Buffalo in 1815. He was educated in Buffalo schools,
at the Polytechnic School at Chittenango, N. Y., at Col. McKay's Military
Academy and at Union College, whence he graduated in 1831. On his return to
Buffalo, Mr. Marshall entered the law office of Austin & Barker, with whom he
remained till 1833, when he went to Yale College for a course of law lectures.
In 1831 he was admitted to practice as an attorney, and soon afterward was
admitted solicitor in Chancery. His first law part nership was with William A.
Moseley, and later he was successively associated with the Hon. Horatio J.
Stow, and the Hon. N. K. Ball, and after 1841 practiced by himself for several
years, then becoming the partner of Alexander W. Harvey till 1863, when he
admitted his son, Charles D. Marshall, to partnership. He retired from active
practice in 1867.

Mr. Marshall was a distinguished writer on historical subjects. He was
President of the Buffalo Historical Society, of which he was one of the
founders; trustee and one of the organizers of the Buffalo Cemetery
Association; member and President of the Board of Trustees of the Grosvenor
Library, and member and President of the Board of Trustees of the University
of Buffalo, of which. he was elected Chancellor in 1882. He was a trustee of
the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, President of the Thomas Orphan Asylum
for Indian Children, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Buff
alo. In the early 50’s he was offered the post of Commissioner to China, and
was tendered the appointment of Assistant Postmaster-General, but declined
both offices. In 1868 he was appointed United States Commissioner for the
Northern District of New York, which position he held for many years.

February 20, 1838, Mr. Marshall married Millicent Ann De Angelis, daughter of
Judge Pascal Charles Joseph De Angelis, of Holland Patent, N. Y. Their
children were: John Ellis Marshall, born August 5, 1839, graduated from Yale
College in 1861, and in 1862 was First Lieutenant of U. S. Volunteers, also
serving as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General William F. Barry; Charles De
Angelis Marshall, born November 14, 1841; and Elizabeth Coe Marshall, born
June 4, 1847.

Orsamus II. Marshall died July 9, 1884.

CHARLES DE ANGELIS MARSHALL is a leading lawyer of Buffalo He was born in
Buffalo and was educated in the local public schools, at Springside Academy,
near Auburn, N. Y., and at the Hopkins Grammar School, of New Haven, Conn. He
then entered the Albany Law School, from which institution he graduated, being
admitted to the bar in 1864. He then entered into partnership with his father,
under the firm style of 0. H. & C. D. Marshall. In 1868 he formed a co-
partnership with Spencer Clinton, the firm name being Marshall & Clinton. In
1873 Robert P. Wilson was associated with Messrs. Marshall & Clinton, the
style being changed to Marshall, Clinton & Wilson. In 1892 this partnership
was dissolved, Mr. Marshall and Mr. Clinton for some time practicing together
as before. In 1893 Adolph Rebadow was admitted, the firm becoming Marshall,
Clinton & Rebadow. Mr. Clinton retiring in 1899, the firm was styled Marshall
& Rebadow, and in 1905, Ulysses S. Thomas was admitted a partner, with the
firm style of Marshall, Rehadow & Thomas, an association which still
continues, and has a large and. valuable practice. During his long experience
at the bar, Mr. Marshall has attained a sterling legal reputation, notably in
connection with the law of real property and the management of trust estates.
From 1878 to July, 1906, he was the attorney of the Buffalo Savings Bank.

Mr. Marshall was one of the founders of the Buffalo Society of Natural
Sciences, and is Treasurer of its permanent fund. He has served as Trustee,
Vice-President and Treasurer of the Thomas Orphan Asylum for Indian Children,
and holds life memberships in the Buffalo Historical Society, the Fine Arts
Academy and the Young Men's Association. He has served as a director of the
Buffalo Library, the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Buffalo City Cemetery and
the Third National Bank, and is a member of the Buffalo, Beaver Island,
Falconwood, Saturn, Launch and Canoe Clubs. In 1885 he was adopted into the
Seneca Indian nation in recognition of his interest in the study of Indian
antiquities. He is a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, of
Buffalo. In politics he is an independent Republican.