Marshall D. Ewell

Marshall Davis Ewell (August 18, 1844 – October 4, 1928) was an American lawyer.

Marshall Davis Ewell
Born	(1844-08-18)August 18, 1844 Oxford, Michigan, U.S.
Died	October 4, 1928(1928-10-04) (aged 84) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Education	University of Michigan Law School
Occupation	Lawyer
Spouse	Abbie Louise Walker ​ (m. 1870)​
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Biography

Ewell was born at Oxford, Michigan, on August 18, 1844.^[1][2] He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1868. He founded Kent College of Law, which merged with Chicago College of Law in 1887 to become Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 1969, Chicago-Kent became part of Illinois Institute of Technology.

He married Abbie Louise Walker in 1870 and they had two daughters.^[1]

Ewell was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1895.^[3]

He died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 4, 1928.^[4]

Works

Ewell wrote numerous publications and he edited Blackwell on Tax Titles, Evans on Agency, and Lindley on Partnership. He was the author of:

• Leading Cases on Disabilities (1876)
• Treatise on the Law of Fixtures (1876; second edition, 1905)^[5][6]
• Essentials of the Law (1882; second edition, 1915)^[7][8]
• Manual of Medical Jurisprudence (1887; second edition, 1909)^[9][10]
• Essentials of Commercial Law, with Whigam and Skinner (1913)

References

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XII. James T. White & Company. 1904. p. 375. Retrieved August 17, 2020 – via Google Books.
2. Leonard, John William (1925). Who's Who in Jurisprudence. p. 457. OCLC 1151784139.
3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
4. "Former Dean of Kent College of Law Is Dead". Chicago Tribune. October 6, 1928. p. 21. Retrieved August 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures". Harvard Law Review. 19 (5): 397. March 1906. doi:10.2307/1323028. JSTOR 1323028.
6. "A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures". Columbia Law Review. 6 (5): 371. May 1906. doi:10.2307/1109017. JSTOR 1109017.
7. "Essentials of the Law". Columbia Law Review. 16 (3): 270. March 1916. doi:10.2307/1110696. JSTOR 1110696.
8. "Essentials of the Law". Yale Law Journal. 24 (7): 615. May 1915. doi:10.2307/787522. JSTOR 787522.
9. "A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence". Yale Law Journal. 19 (4): 315. February 1910. doi:10.2307/784770. JSTOR 784770.
10. "A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence". Harvard Law Review. 24 (1): 74. November 1910. doi:10.2307/1324687. JSTOR 1324687. S2CID 256028565.