Biographical Sketches:  ROUJET D. MARSHALL


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the
Sixtieth Congress. Justices of the Supreme Court, p. 1123

ROUJET D. MARSHALL, LL. D., University of Wisconsin, 1905, was born
Dec. 27, 1847, in Nashua, N.H.; was educated principally at the Delton
Academy, Baraboo Collegiate Institute and Lawrence University. The
Marshalls came to this country from England in 1650 and settled in
Boston. The subject of this sketch came to Wisconsin in 1854; resided
at Delton, Sauk county, until 1872, and since that time in Chippewa
Falls; commenced the study of law at the age of 17, which he continued
with his school work till he was 24, since which time [he] has been
actively engaged in the profession; as county judge of Chippewa county
from 1876 to 1883; member of the board of regents of the University of
Wisconsin from 1884 to 1889; elected circuit judge of the Eleventh
circuit in April, 1886, and re-elected in April, 1894; was appointed
to the supreme bench in August, 1895, and was elected to the supreme
bench in April, 1896, for unexpired term of Chief Justice Orton,
deceased; was re-Deducted April 6, 1897, for a full term.