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JUDGE CHARLES S. MARSHALL, son of Thomas A. Marshall, and grandson of Humphrey Marshall, the author of “An Early History of Kentucky,” was born in Paris, Ky., January 19, 1821. To those familiar with the eminent families of Kentucky, no words are necessary to show that this gentleman is well descended. When he was fifteen years old his father, an eminent lawyer, removed to Lexington, Ky., where our subject enjoyed the benefits of a thorough course of study in the old Transylvania University, thus acquiring a fine English education. He read law under his father and in 1840 entered the law department of the Transylvania University, from which he graduated in the spring of 1842. He then established a practice in Ballard County, where he remained until removing to Paducah in 1868, and where he became a recognized leader as an equity and criminal lawyer and an able jurist. In 1856 he was elected to the office of attorney general, of Ballard County, there became county judge and in 1862 was made circuit judge of the First Judicial District of Kentucky, filling this responsible position until 1867, when he resigned to accept the office of registrar in bankruptcy, for the First Congressional District of Kentucky. Judge Marshall came to Paducah, in 1868, since which time he has occupied the front rank in the bar of that city. Judge Marshall’s political preferences are with the Republican party; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and an Ancient Odd Fellow. He was married in 1848, in Ballard County, to Miss Emily V., daughter of Jacob Corbett, and has a family of two sons and four daughters: Thomas C., now a lawyer in Montana; Jacob Marshall, an officer in the United States internal revenue department; Mrs. Mary E., wife of Hon. G. W. Reeves; Lucy, wife of Dr. W. W. Richmond, of Clinton, Ky.; Alice, widow of A. P. Hall, and Miss Kate Marshall, of Paducah. The family are members of the Paducah Christian Church.