Marshall
Marshall names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Marshall JOHN, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American jurist; born in Germantown, Va., Sept. 24, 1755. He was educated at home; studied law; was an officer in the Colonial army from 1775 to 1779, where he won distinction, especially on courts-martial, in which he acted frequently as judge-advocate. In 1781 he resigned, and entered on the practice of law. He was elected to the Virginia Legislature, and in 1788 to the Virginia convention that ratified the United States Constitution, where he shared with James Madison the work of influencing its adoption. He went as envoy to France in 1798, but was superseded on account of his Federalistic views. In 1799 he entered Congress; refused appointment as Secretary of War. In 1800 took office as Secretary of State. In 1801 he was nominated chiefjustice of the United States by President John Adams, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. This office he held 34 years, during which his decisions on constitutional questions established precedents in the interpretation of the Constitution that have been accepted ever since. He died in Philadelphia, July 6, 1835.
Marshall THOMAS RILEY, Vice- President of the United States
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS RILEY, Vice- President of the United States, was born in 1854 in Indiana, graduating from Wabash College in 1873. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and soon attained considerable success and reputation as an orator. After being several times nominated for office by the Democrats, but defeated in the election, he was elected governor of Indiana in 1908. • While governor he favored the so-called progressive measures of popular election of senators, employers' liability laws, etc. His supposed opposition to the Democratic machine politicians headed by Taggart, won Marshall considerable popularity and also Indiana's support for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912. While not successful in gaining the coveted nomination, he did gain second place on the Democratic ticket and was elected Vice-President in 1912, to which office he was re-elected in 1916.
Marshall SIR WILLIAM RAINE, English Lieutenant-General
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM RAINE, English Lieutenant-General; born in 1865. Served on the northwestern frontier of India 1897-1898; in the South Lieutenant-General Marshall succeeded tional banks, daily and weekly newspapers to the command of the Anglo-Indian Army in Mesopotamia on the death of General Sir Stanley Maude, Nov. 18, 1917. In March, 1918, his forces were victorious over the Turks at Hit and Kahn-Baghdadi on the Euphrates. On Oct. 3 General Marshall's drive began along the Tigris against Mosul. On Oct. 2, Kirkuk was won and a passage forced over the Sesser Zab, a branch of the Tigris. Oct. 25-28 Kalat Shergat was captured and on the 30th the Turkish Army on the Tigris surrendered.
Marshall a city and county-seat of Harrison co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Harrison co., Tex.; on the Marshall and East Texas and the Texas and Pacific railroads; 40 miles W. of Shreveport. It contains the College of Marshall, and two large negro colleges, waterworks, African War of 1899-1902. electric and street railroad plant, Naand churches. It has a foundry, railroad shops, cotton compress, cotton gin, grist mills, pottery plant, furniture factories, etc. The city has a commission form of government. Pop. (1910) 11,452; (1920) 14,271.
Marshall a county-seat of Saline co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a county-seat of Saline co., Mo., 85 miles E. of Kansas City, on Chicago and Alton and Missouri Pacific railroads. Its institutions include Missouri Valley College, Academy Notre Dame de Sion, opera house and a state institution for feeble-minded. Coal mines in the vicinity. Has lumber and brick mills. Pop. (1910) 4,869; (1920) 5,200.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 lists five Marshalls but not the man the name now brings to mind first: George C. Marshall, then an obscure army officer, later Army chief of staff, Secretary of State, author of the European Recovery Program that bears his name, and Nobel Peace laureate in 1953. Of those listed, John Marshall's standing as the architect of American constitutional interpretation is undisturbed — Marbury v. Madison (1803) and McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) are still taught as foundational — though modern scholarship has given far more attention to his extensive ownership of enslaved people, a subject the 1921 sketch passes over entirely. Thomas Riley Marshall, praised here as a popular two-term vice-president, is now remembered chiefly for his inaction after Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919: he declined to press any claim to the presidency, and the gap in the law he exposed was not filled until the Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified in 1967. Both towns have grown modestly rather than boomed — Marshall, Texas, from 14,271 to roughly 23,000, and Marshall, Missouri, from 5,200 to about 13,000 — and the "College of Marshall" named in the entry is today East Texas Baptist University.
Written for this edition, 2026.