The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-06
AIarshall-The Scene 1t tho
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Humphrey Marshall-The Scene at tho
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We copy as follows from the Courier.
Journal, Of the 29th:
Hon. Humphrey Marshall died at his
residence, in this city, at ~ O'Clock,
yesterday afternoon. of general acute
bronchitis. The city was startled by the
announcement, for his illness was of suoh
short duration that few had even heard
Of it.
Gen. Marshall went to Frankfort q
week ago yesterday. on professional
business. On Friday, he ate hearty
dinner and retired to his room for an
afternoon nap. When he awoke, he
found himself suffering from q severe
burning and smothering sensation in the
breast. These symptoms continued to
affect him 80 severely that he came homo
on Saturday and took to his bed. Dr.
Force was called in on Monday, and at
tended him during his short and fatal
illness. The smothering sensation con-
tinued SO severe that the doors and win
dows of tho sick chamber we're kept
open both day aud night. Mrs. Mar
shall, his wife, was in Mercer County at
the time. and though sent for as soon as
the Generals indisposition became dan /.
gerous, could not arrive until after his
death. Two daughters and one son and
other members of the family, however,
were at his bedside. He suffered severe
~, was very restless, and sat upright in
his bed most of the time. He seemed
aware several days ago of his approach
ing end, and awaited it cnlmly. Yester-
day afternoon, one of his daughters,
Mrs. Strader, assisted him to rise M in
the bed, and while resting upon her arm,
he suddenly remarked, ut is oil over, :"
and then dropping back upon the pill
low, died without struggle. The body,
after being laid out, was visited during
the afternoon by e large number OF the
members of the bar aud prominent citi-
zsns.
The General has been in feeble health
during the whole of tho past winter, and
on several occasions got out Of sick bed
to attend to important professional du-
ties.
Humphrey Marshall was born ut
Frankfort, Ky, on the 18th of January,
1872. He was the second son of Hon.
John J. Marshall, who afterward moved
to Louisville, and was for long time
Judge OF tho Jefferson Circuit Court
He was grandson of Humphrey Mar
shall, the author of the History of Ken.
tucky, which was published in tso vo-
lumes, at Frankfort, in 1921, and which
was the first history Of this State ever
given to the public.
In lS2S, he wns sent to the Military
Academy Mt West Point, where he grn-
duated in 1882. While at West Point
one Of his classmates. under the influ-
ence Of liquor, got into barbers shop
and broke up and destroyed pretty
much everything. The offence was q
grave one under the rigid rules of the
academy, but who did the mischief and
who was to be punished for it wns d
question. The whole class was called
up and each ono required to tell if he
knew who did it. Mr.. Marshall, when
it came to his turn, said he knew who
did it, but declined to tell. He was told
that, if he knew and would not tell, he
would be expelled. He refused to dis
close the author of the mischief, and
was expelled. But when the informa-
tion reached Chief Justice Marshall, of
Virginia, who was his relative. and Pre-
sident Jackson, the friend of the family,
place in the academy, and rather honor
Oh CAhA Aux aOb on
his classmate.
When he graduated at West Point he
went into the Blackhawk war, and was
stationed at Davenport, in Minnesota.
But the life of the soldier became disa-
greeable to him and he left the SERVICE
and on the 23d of January, 1888, was
married to Miss Frances McCallis!er,
daughter of Charles McCallister, Of
Franklin, Tennessee. Soon after his
marriage he began the study Of the law
with his father, and in April, 1888, after
close study of but few months, was ad.
mitted to the bar. He acquired legal
knowledge with wonderful rapidity, and
in a short time became formidable
legal adversary.
In 1876, he was a colonel in the Mexi-
can war, thus showing that the military
education he had received had created a
taste for tho field which civil life had
not entirely deadened. AT the close Of
the war, he returned to the practice Of
the law, which he continued until 1849,
when he made the race for Congress in
this district against DR.. Lane, and was
elected. The contest was warm and the
race close. Mr.. Marshall was elected by
only small majority, and, indeed, it
was for some time uncertain whether he
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