Rev Samuel Vance Marshall

• General Notes
  • He was the son of Rev. Robert  and Jane (Vance) Marshall and was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, February 6th, 1798.  He graduated at Transylvania University in 1821, and at Princeton Seminary in 1825.  He was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery the same year, and on returning to Kentucky he was ordained by West Lexington Presbytery, in 1826.  His first year of ministerial labor was as a missionary in South Carolina, then to North Middleton and Mount Sterling churches, in Bourbon and Montgomery counties, Kentucky, then in Woodford Church, Kentucky.  He was elected Professor of Languages in Transylvania University, which position he held for two years, until his election to the same Chair in Oakland College, in 1837.  Here he spent the most of his life.  For some years he was a teacher, and a partially voluntary evangelist, especially among colored people.  He was a man of strong character and large attainments, a good preacher and eminently kind and social in his disposition.  He died November 30th, 1860.
    
    MARSHALL, SAMUEL VANCE.—The son of Rev. Robert and Jane (Vance) Marshall, was born in Fayette Co., Ky..February 6, 1798.
    He was carefully educated, and entered Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., where he graduated in 1821. He entered upon his Theological studies in the Seminary at Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in 1825. He was licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery the same year, and on returning to Kentucky he was ordained by West Lexington Presbytery in 1826. He was a good preacher, eminently kind and social in his disposition, as
    well as ardent and tenacious in his friendship.
    He was a member of Central Mississippi Presbytery, though for some time
    before his death he had moved to Madison, Indiana. He had suffered long
    from dyspepsia. At one time in 1850 it was thought he would have died or
    consumption, but he recovered entirely; but his old disease fastened itself
    upon him, and he died Nov. 30, 1860.