The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Marshall, Orsamus Holmes

MARSHALL, Orsamus Holmes, American lawyer and author: b. Franklin, Conn., 1813; d. 1884. In 1831 he was graduated at Union College, studied for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1834. He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Female Academy and of the Buffalo Historical Society. He also served several years as chancellor of the University of Buffalo. He wrote much in connection with the Iroquois dealings with the whites. Posthumously there appeared a volume entitled ‘Historical Writings of Orsamus H. Marshall Relating to the Early History of the West’ (1887).