MARVIN, B. S.

MARVIN, LUM, TEMPLE

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 09:10:42

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

B. S. MARVIN, passenger conductor on the C. & N. W. R. R.; is a native of Orange Co., N. Y., and was born May 27, 1825; he was brought up there and learned the trade of wagon-maker; he came to Illinois in 1855; he came to Iowa and located in Clinton Co., at De Witt ; was there two and a half years, and then came to Clinton, and has lived here since then, except a few years in Cedar Rapids; he began railroading in 1852, on the Eastern Division of the New York & Erie Railroad; he has run longer than any conductor now on the N. W. R. R.; has been conductor on passenger train since 1870, and runs from Clinton to Boone, and has only lost three months' time in seventeen years. He married Miss Letitia Lum, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y.; they have one daughter-Hannah, now Mrs. Temple, living in Clinton.