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 MARTYN

MARVIN

Parsonage and Women of the Bi6/e(1868); TJie ^Orescent and tfie Cross (1869); Dora's Mistake (1870), and Hillside Cottage (1873). She died in New York city, Nov. 22, 1879.

MARTYN, William Carlos, clergyman and author, was born in New York city, Dec. 15, 1841 ; son of the Rev. Job H. and Sarah Towne (Smith) Martyn. He graduated from the University of the City of New York, LL.B., 1863 ; studied law ; served on various newspapers and prepared a series of books and tracts, biographical and his- torical, for the American Tract society, 1863-69. He was married in 1866 to Mercedes, daugliter of Don Fermin Ferrer, president of Nicaragua, and their son, Fermin Ferrer Martyn, became a cler- gyman of the Reformed church and a lecturer and author in New York city. He was graduated from the Union Theological seminary in 1869, and was pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church, St. Louis, Mo., 1869-71 ; pa.stor at Portsmouth, N.H., 1871-76 ; pastor of the 34th Street Reformed •church, New York city, 1876-83 ; of the Bloom- ingdale church, 1883-90 ; of the First Reformed clmrch, Newark, N.J., 1890-92 ; of the Sixth Pres- byterian church, Chicago, 111., 1892-94, and founded and became half owner of the Abbey Press, New York, in 1896. He received the honorary degrees D.D. and Litt.D. He is the author of : Hie Life of John Milton ; Life of Mar- tin Luther ; History of the Huguenots (1866) ; His- tory of the English Puritans (1867) ; History of the Pilgrim Fathers of New England (1867) ; The Dutch Reformation (1868); Wendell Phillips <the Agitator (1890) ; Christian Citizenship (1898); Sour Saints and Sweet Sinners (1900) and editor of American Reformers series.

MARVIL, Joshua Hopkins, governor of Dela- ware, was born in Little Creek hundred, Sussex county, Del., Sept. 3, 1825. After his fathers death in 1834 he worked on the farm, obtaining but a limited education, and in 1845 he became a sailor. He engaged in the shipbuilder's trade 1846-53, and in 1853 began the manufacture of agricultural implements, which he continued with success until 1870, when he opened a manu- factory for fruit crates and baskets, using in their manufacture inventions of his ow^n and so perfecting the process as to make his establish- ment capable of manufacturing 2,000,000 baskets per annum. He was elected governor of Dela- ware, Nov. 6, 1894 ; was inaugurated in January, 1895, and died in Laurel, Del., April 8, 1895.

MARVIN, Charles Frederick, meteorologist, was born in Putnam, Ohio, Oct. 7, 1858 ; son of •George Frederick and Sarah Anne (Speck) Marvin ; grandson of Samuel and Caroline (Lot- tridge) Marvin and of Noah and Maria (Smitley) ^Speck. He was graduated from the Ohio State university, M.E., 1883. While at the university.

he was assistant instructor in the mechanical laboratory, 1878-83, and he was assistant in the department of physics and mechanical engineer- ing, 1883-84. In May, 1884, he was appointed junior professsr in the U.S. signal service and upon the organization of the physical laboratory division in January, 1885, he was assigned to that division and carried on a series of compara- tive observations of the " Regnault" Dew-point apparatus and the " whirled or sling psychrom- eter " for the purpose of determining the con- stants of a formula for the psychrometer. The work was done in Colorado at the base and finally on the summit of Pike's peak and was the basis of the psychrometric tables of the weather bureau. He was placed in charge of the instrument divis- ion, U.S. signal service, in 1889, and was elected professor of meteorology in the U.S. weather bureau in 1891. He was married, June 27, 1894, to Nellie Limeburner. He made important in- vestigations of anemometers for measurement of wind velocities and pressures and conducted many experiments for deducing the moisture contents of the air. In 1897-98 he developed im- portant improvements in the construction of kites and the aerial apparatus emploj'ed by the U.S. weather bureau in ascertaining the meteor- ological conditions at great elevations in the frcje air. This apparatus was subsequently employed by both European and South American institu- tions and formed part of the equipment of the German South Polar expedition of 1901. Among his inventions are instruments for the automatic registration of rainfall, sunshine, wind velocity, the temperature and pres-sure of the air. He contributed to American scientific periodicals. He was made fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Philosophical Society of Washington, the Washington Academy of Science, the National Geographic society, and corresponding mem- ber of the Deutscher Verein zur Forderung der LuftschiflFahrt in Berlin.

MARVIN, Dudley, representative, was born in Lyme, Conn., May 6, 1786 ; son of Elisha and Minerva (Prendergast) Marvin. He attended the Colchester seminary and removed to Cauan- daigua, N.Y., where he was admitted to the bar and practised, 1807-35. He was married to Mary Whaley, of Canandaigua, N.Y. He supported the policy of John Adams, was a repr&sentativefrom Canandaigua district in the 18th, 19th and 20th the congresses, 1823-29 ; practised law in New York city, 1835-45, and in Ripley, N.Y., 1845-56. He was a W^hig representative in the 30th congress, 1847-49. He died in Ripley, N.Y., June 25, 1856.

MARVIN, Enoch Mother, M.E. bishop, was bom in Warren county. Mo., June 12, 1823 ; son of Wells Ely Marvin, grandson of Enoch and