Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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William Elisha Marvin and Catherine F. Spencer




Husband William Elisha Marvin 1 2

           Born: 21 Mar 1814 - Chautauqua Co, NY 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1896
         Buried: 


         Father: Col. Elisha Marvin (1768-1829) 2 3
         Mother: Minerva Prendergast (      -1858) 2 3


       Marriage: 2 Nov 1848 4 5



Wife Catherine F. Spencer 5

            AKA: Catherine T. Spencer 4
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Sep 1892 5
         Buried: 


         Father: William Spencer (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 




Children

General Notes: Husband - William Elisha Marvin


He was Justice of the Peace for many years in Greenfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania, as well as several township offices. He was an established farmer, and accumulated a comfortable competency.

He received a common school education, learned surveying and followed that business and farming jointly for twenty-five or thirty years, after which time he was exclusively engaged as an agriculturist. Politically he was an old line Whig, later a Republican. He was for twenty-one years a justice of the peace in Greenfield township, and held all the township offices. He served as county commissioner, and was a candidate for the State Legislature. He was one of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Erie beginning in 1880.


General Notes: Wife - Catherine F. Spencer

from Connecticut

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Sources


1 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 926, Bios 145.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 558.

3 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 926.

4 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 145.

5 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 559.


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