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Jonathan Jones Marvin
Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 544 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890) Jonathan Marvin was born at Hammond, New York, on
September 23, 1822. "In 1839 he entered the university of Vermont
at Burlington; delivered a poem, The Troubadours, at the Sophomore
exhibition, and graduated in 1844 with a poem, Truth—the Life of
Scholars. In 1846 he was admitted to the bar in Franklin county,
Vermont, and left for the lead mines of Wisconsin. In the fall of
1847 was elected county clerk of LaFayette county, Wisconsin, and
afterward district attorney and county judge. In 1878 he was married
to Elizabeth J. Ware, of Galena, Illinois. In 1862 he volunteered
in the 25th regiment Missouri volunteers, and in 1865 he returned
from the army to Falls City, Nebraska, where he was elected without
opposition as prosecuting attorney of Richardson county; was postmaster
three years and served for over fourteen years as justice of the
peace by election. Of his longer poems the Origin of Water, a temperance
poem, Christian Woman's Work, Eulogy on Gen. Grant, Pomona, and
several fourth of July and memorial poems have been published. He
also won the first prize of a hundred-dollar sewing machine for
a poem." |
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