Dr. Louis Marshall was the youngest brother of Chief Justice John Marshall. He went to Kentucky in 1785 as a boy of twelve. After beginning his education at home, Marshall went for further study to Edinburgh and Paris. He participated in the attack on the Bastille in 1789. There is some disagreement in sources about whether he witnessed atrocities of the French Revolution, or whether he was imprisoned in France. When he returned to Kentucky, he settled at "Buckpond," given to him by his father, and married Agatha Smith in 1800. In 1830, Marshall was named president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia. Sources say that Dr. Marshall dramatically changed the structure of Washington College. "Rules were discarded and a state of nature was declared." No classes met in groups unless a group so desired. Individual students went to a professor to recite or confer at any time. Dr. Marshall installed an arm chair and bed in his own classroom and received his students as he lounged, pipe in hand. In 1838, he was elected professor and president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he served for two years. After 1840, Dr. Marshall from time to time conducted a school for boys. He lived to be ninety-three, spending his last years partly at Buckpond with his son John and partly visiting other children and relatives. He passed away in 1866 at Buckpond.