He was the son of
Thomas Marshall, and brother of U.S. Chief Justice
John Marshall. He was educated at home, studied medicine in
Edinburgh, and spent several years in
Paris, participating in the attack upon the
Bastille. He was arrested during the
Reign of Terror and condemned to death, but was rescued by the intervention of his elder brothers. He attained note as a physician, but his taste for literature and languages caused him to abandon his profession, and he then established an academy in
Woodford County, Kentucky. He was president of
Washington College,
Virginia, in 1838, and afterward of
Transylvania University,
Kentucky. He died in
Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1866, one year after the end of the
American Civil War. ==Family==