Historical Collections of Virginia: Containing a Collection of the Most ...
Historical Collections of Virginia: Containing a Collection of the Most ...
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
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The foregoing memoir of Marshall is abridged from an exceedingly interesting one in the Southern Literary Messenger for February, 1836, which is partly original and partly compiled from the eulogies on his life and character, by Horace Binney, Judge Story, and Edgar Snowden. We have, in addition, collected a few reminiscences and anec- dotes from different gentlemen, of high respectability, which we presume to be authentic : Marshall was noted for extreme plainness of person and address, and a ...child-like aim- 34 * ' 26G FAUQUIER COUNTT. plieity of character. His carelessness of his personal attire," in early life particularly, is well known, and on one occasion, (as stated in the Literary Messenger,) while travelling, occasioned his being refused admittance into a public house. On the occasion winch we are now to relate, it caused him the loss of a generous fee. Marshall, when just rising on the professional ladder, was one morning strolling through the streets of Rich- mond, attired in a plain linen roundabout and shorts, with his hat under his arm, from which he was eating cherries, when he stopped in the porch of the Eagle hotel, indulged in some little pleasantry with the landlord, and then passed on.
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