Hon. Selden Marvin and Sarah Wilson Dinsmore

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Husband Hon. Selden Marvin ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Jun 1819 - Canandaigua, Ontario Co, NY 1 2
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         Father: Dudley Marvin (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Whalley (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1847 1

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Wife Sarah Wilson Dinsmore ¹

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Children

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1 M Charles Dinsmore Marvin ¹

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2 F Anna Humphreys Marvin ¹

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         Spouse: William D. Lewis (      -      ) 1

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3 F Elizabeth Selden Marvin ¹

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         Spouse: Robert W. Neff (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Selden Marvin

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He received his education mainly at Canandaigua Academy, and at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania; spent one year in a printing office in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents moved to New York City in the summer of 1837, where he read law until 1841 in the office of his father, who was one of the most distinguished attorneys in the state, and for eight years a member of Congress. In 1841, removed to Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York, where he was exclusively engaged in farming until 1846; in the latter year he entered upon the practice of law at Jamestown. In 1847, he was married and returned to the farm. A year or so later he formed a connection with Hon. Geo. W. Parker (later of the city of New York), and resumed the legal profession at Westfield, New York. In the fall of 1852 he was elected Special County Judge, and in 1855 County Judge of Chautauqua County, serving in the latter position until Jan. 1, 1860. He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, in June, 1860, where he became a member of the firm of Spencer & Marvin, and practiced law until 1877. He was the Democratic candidate for Assembly in 1862; Democratic nominee for Congress in 1870, coming within 500 votes of an election; Democratic candidate for Elector at Large in 1872; Mayor of Erie City in 1877; the same year elected City Recorder for five years; he was re-elected in 1882 to the same office.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Wilson Dinsmore

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from Ripley, Chautauqua Co, NY

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

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