Marshall D. Ewell

Marshall Davis Ewell was an American lawyer, medical doctor, and microscopist.

Biography

Ewell was born at Oxford, Michigan, on August 18, 1844. 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.
Ewell was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1895.
He died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 4, 1928.

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 Treatise on the Law of Fixtures Essentials of the Law Manual of Medical Jurisprudence Essentials of Commercial Law, with Whigam and Skinner