History of Marshall, (Oneida County) New York United States of America

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Irving Browne, author, was born in Marshall, Oneida county, N.Y., Sept. 14, 1835. He was educated at academies in New England; admitted to the bar in New York, 1857, and practised his profession at Troy, N.Y., until 1879, when he retired from the bar to assume editorial charge of the Albany Law Journal, in which he continued until 1893. In 1892 he removed to Buffalo, N.Y. He lectured on law and compiled many reports and digests of legal decisions. His principal legal treatises are on the domestic relations, criminal law, parole evidence, and sales. He has also written several legal treatises of a semi-humorous character and of literary interest, such as, Humorous Phases of the Law, and Judicial Interpretation of Common Words and Phrases; also Law and Lawyers in Literature, and Short Studies of Great Lawyers. Also a volume of critical essays entitled, Iconoclasm and Whitewash. He published a rhymic translation of Racine's comedy, Les Plaideurs, a satire on law and lawyers; and a volume entitled, Reminiscences and Rhyminiscences of Travel. He became widely known to the legal fraternity as associate editor of The Green Bag. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 26, 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Asahel Grant, missionary, was born in Marshall, N.Y., Aug. 17, 1807. He was a practising physician in Utica, N.Y., 1828-34, and a missionary in Urumiah, Persia, on the frontier of Turkey, 1835-40. He was aided in his field of labor by the friendship of the Persian governor of the place and the Nestorian bishop and priests whose great church had once shaped the religious thought of the region. His wife died in 1840 and he returned to the United States, but after a year's rest took up his work again among the Nestorians of Kurdistan. He was laboring among this sect in 1843 and when, contrary to his advice, they refused to make terms with the Turks, about 6000 were massacred and the missionaries were obliged to flee for their lives. Dr. Grant went to Mosul to care for the Nestorians refugeed in that city and died there in the midst of his labors. He published The Nestorians (1841). See memoir of his life and work (1847); also Grant and the Nestorians (1853). He died at Mosul, Turkey in Asia, April 25, 1844.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor