Marshall D. Ewell Explained

Marshall Davis Ewell
Birth Date:	18 August 1844
Birth Place:	Oxford, Michigan, U.S.
Death Place:	Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation:	Lawyer
Education:	University of Michigan Law School
Signature:	Signature of Marshall Davis Ewell.png

Marshall Davis Ewell (August 18, 1844October 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]

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . XII . James T. White & Company . 375 . 1904 . 2020-08-17 . Google Books.
2. Book: Leonard, John William. Who's Who in Jurisprudence. 1925. English. 1151784139. 457.
3. Web site: APS Member History . 2024-03-25 . search.amphilsoc.org.
4. News: Former Dean of Kent College of Law Is Dead . . 21 . 1928-10-06 . 2020-08-17 . Newspapers.com.
5. March 1906. A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures. Harvard Law Review. 19. 5. 397. 10.2307/1323028. 1323028.
6. May 1906. A Treatise on the Law of Fixtures. Columbia Law Review. 6. 5. 371. 10.2307/1109017. 1109017.
7. March 1916. Essentials of the Law. Columbia Law Review. 16. 3. 270. 10.2307/1110696. 1110696.
8. May 1915. Essentials of the Law. Yale Law Journal. 24. 7. 615. 10.2307/787522. 787522.
9. February 1910. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. Yale Law Journal. 19. 4. 315. 10.2307/784770. 784770.
10. November 1910. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. Harvard Law Review. 24. 1. 74. 10.2307/1324687. 1324687. 256028565 .