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Jonathan Jones Marvin

(1822- )
New York, Vermont, Wisconsin & Nebraska

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."

[Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 544 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)]