Louis W. Marcus

Louis William Marcus (May 18, 1863 – August 18, 1923) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from Buffalo, New York.

Life

Marcus was born on May 18, 1863, in Buffalo, New York, the son of Leopold and Amelia Marcus.[1]

Marcus attended public school and Williams Academy. He then went to Cornell Law School, graduating from there with an LL.B. in 1889.[2] He was admitted to the bar when he was twenty five, and in 1890 he helped form the law firm Swift, Weaver & Marcus. When Swift withdrew from the firm in 1892, it continued under the name Weaver & Marcus. The firm ended with Weaver's death in 1894.[3]

In 1895, Marcus was elected judge of the Surrogate's Court of Erie County as a Republican. He was re-elected judge in 1901. In 1905, Governor Frank W. Higgins appointed him Justice of the New York Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Edward W. Hatch.[4] He was elected to the position in 1906, and in 1920 he was re-elected for a fourteen-year term. He served as Justice until his death.[5]

Marcus was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Freemasons, the Shriners, the Buffalo Club, and the Country Club. In 1889, he married Ray H. Dahlman. Following Ray's death in 1917, he lived with his sister Rosalind C. Marcus.[6]

Marcus died from a year's long illness on August 18, 1923. He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery.[7]

References
  1. Men and Women of America. New York, N.Y.: L. R. Hamersly & Company. 1910. p. 1126 – via Google Books.
  2. White, Truman C., ed. (1898). Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York. Vol. II. The Boston History Company. pp. 13–14 – via Google Books.
  3. The Men of New York. Vol. I. Buffalo, N.Y.: Geo E. Matthews & Co. 1898. pp. 165–166 – via Google Books.
  4. "Cornellian on the Bench". Cornell Alumni News. Ithaca, N.Y. VIII (8): 85–86. 22 November 1905. hdl:1813/25981 – via Cornell University Library.
  5. Landman, Isaac, ed. (1942). The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York, N.Y.: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc. p. 348 – via Google Books.
  6. "Louis W. Marcus '89". Cornell Alumni News. Ithaca, N.Y. XXXVI (2): 23. 4 October 1923. hdl:1813/26694 – via Cornell University Library.
  7. "JUSTICE MARCUS WILL BE BURIED HERE TOMORROW" (PDF). Buffalo Courier. Buffalo, N.Y. 19 August 1923. p. 80 – via Fultonhistory.com.
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