Marshall Davis Ewell
Born(1844-08-18)August 18, 1844
Oxford, Michigan, U.S.
DiedOctober 4, 1928(1928-10-04) (aged 84)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Michigan Law School
OccupationLawyer
Spouse
Abbie Louise Walker
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(m. 1870)​
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Marshall Davis Ewell (August 18, 1844 – October 4, 1928) was an American lawyer.

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]

He died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 4, 1928.[3]

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)[4][5]
  • Essentials of the Law (1882; second edition, 1915)[6][7]
  • Manual of Medical Jurisprudence (1887; second edition, 1909)[8][9]
  • Essentials of Commercial Law, with Whigam and Skinner (1913)

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ "Former Dean of Kent College of Law Is Dead". Chicago Tribune. October 6, 1928. p. 21. Retrieved August 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures". Harvard Law Review. 19 (5): 397. March 1906. doi:10.2307/1323028. JSTOR 1323028.
  5. ↑ "A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures". Columbia Law Review. 6 (5): 371. May 1906. doi:10.2307/1109017. JSTOR 1109017.
  6. ↑ "Essentials of the Law". Columbia Law Review. 16 (3): 270. March 1916. doi:10.2307/1110696. JSTOR 1110696.
  7. ↑ "Essentials of the Law". Yale Law Journal. 24 (7): 615. May 1915. doi:10.2307/787522. JSTOR 787522.
  8. ↑ "A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence". Yale Law Journal. 19 (4): 315. February 1910. doi:10.2307/784770. JSTOR 784770.
  9. ↑ "A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence". Harvard Law Review. 24 (1): 74. November 1910. doi:10.2307/1324687. JSTOR 1324687. S2CID 256028565.


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