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In 1831 he graduated from Union College. He then studied for the bar, to which he was admitted in 1834.
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Orsamus Holmes Marshall
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That year, he opened a law office in Buffalo, New York which later became Phillips Lytle Limited Liability Partnership. 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).
