Orsamus H. Marshall

Orsamus Holmes Marshall
2nd Chancellor of the University of Buffalo
In office 1874–1884
Preceded by	Millard Fillmore
Succeeded by	E. Carleton Sprague

Orsamus Holmes Marshall (1813 in Franklin, Connecticut – 1884) was an American lawyer, educator and historian.

Biography

In 1831 he graduated from Union College. He then studied for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1834. That year, he opened a law office in Buffalo, NY which later became Phillips Lytle LLP. He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Female Academy and of the Buffalo Historical Society. He also served several years as chancellor of the University of Buffalo. He wrote much in connection with the Iroquois dealings with European Americans. Posthumously there appeared a volume entitled Historical Writings of Orsamus H. Marshall Relating to the Early History of the West (1887).

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Marshall, Orsamus Holmes" . Encyclopedia Americana.