The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-15
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END CAME PEACEFULLY ~
AND safrHoUT \
Was ehe of the Oldest and p
kn own Jurists in the Iuta,
mountain Country.

Judge Thomas Marshall rss;z
of thi p city for over forty veors
Saturday night at 10 o o;clocl =.
home, l24 South Fourth Fact ~
Judge Marshall was stricken last h
and hfd been failing in health {
since, 3lue to old age. Ar onlv da',
ter. Mrs d. R. Gray, survives
Judge, his wife having died q II
more than three years ago
Inc end came peacefully and
passed TO the great beyond wifi
pain. He was surrounded bv his i,
est KIN during the last few hour
his lte on this earth. The taking 4,
Of snch a dear and beloved father
friend was keenly felt and bird
sadness te the hearts of all that j
him.
lie was 2 citizen who will be mi
from the daily walks Of this citv
fact, he was one of the builders Of
city. He came here when saeeh
was growing on Main street and f
tied his way TO the top Of the la,
In the legal profession, establishing.
himself most enviable reputation
native of Kentucky.
Judge Marshall was born August
1884, in Walnut Grove, Mason cou
KY. Whu nero lad he beear0
very apt student and studied
ancient languages under his uncle.
Louis MaBhall, at Buckpond. W.
ford eouny, Ky. Later he went
Kenyon cclege Ohio, where he lief
his junior year and returned to to M, M
county, k, where he catered
Clerk s ofce for one year, read
law duringthe same time. From II
he went t. ST. Louis and entered
law firm Leslie, Williams Sc Bar
as their csrk- Shortly after he.
turned TO -entucky again and stu,
law with mdge T. A. Marshall.
then returrd to st. Louis in 1855
became lember of the law firm
Williams, jarrett e. Marshall. W
there be egaged in speculation
made and ost a fortune. He fin
drifted TO lutte, Mont. in 1866, AMI
the same var came to Salt Lake c
and in Isl was admitted to Che
OF the Sureme Court OF the Uni
States.
In AuGut, 1872, the law firm
RoYle & Iarshall was establish
which firm ecame famous in the ini
mountain rgion in handling cases
mining, commercial law ard corpc
tions. Juds Marshall was the att
ney for III Overland Route, betw'
Ogden and he Pacific coast, and Ia
was retaind by the Wells, Fargo
Co. and the Southern Pacific Railrc
company asegal adviser. and remaiI
so until thetime of his dcash-
Wa Beloved hy All.
AS a MAJ Judge Marshall was
loved by a. He stood about 6 4
3 inches inhis stocking f1et and,
course, invriably commanded att
ton. His adress was genial and
manners wining, He was forci'
speaker an fine convorsationaH
and always made a good impressi
upon stran@s, His bosom friends
the legal prfession say that his jul
ment and pfect understanding of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the legal
ence were quail, if not superior,
those of anyman they have ever q
While a 2ung man and just 4
mencing hi legal profession, Ju
Marshall wa called upon to defend
man for ilony. He saw what /
necessary to.onstitute a criminal
yer; that th practice of criminal
was q netwd of intrigue, and th1.
man must sort to all expedlen.
the defense { his client. He be1n
man of higl ideals, of integrity
honest endeaor, the practice of c
inal law waSo distasteful to him
he vowed tins and there that he W.
never again udertake TO defend a
charged will crime, He kept
word during IL his long life in wi
ne was engaed in the active prae'
of his profHion. lie never swery
even TO the xtent of the smallest
tail, from htest, upright principle.
The funal will occur Tues
afternoon at4 O'Clock from the
dencc. Bisho Scanlau will oficlate
the exercise lnterment IN NO
Olivet.