William F. Marvin

Birth Date

c1804

Death Date

1879-07-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky, writer, poet, and shoemaker. Native of England. Married to Charlotte Ash Marvin in Saint Mary, Nottingham, England, on August 11, 1825. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry as private during the Mexican-American War. Shoemaker in Danville in 1850. Wrote “The Battle of Monterey,” published in Danville in 1851. Shoemaker in Danville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 355B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 909.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican war, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M616, Roll 0023, (Accessed via fold3.com).
Kentucky Advocate, "William F. Marvin," March 30, 1925, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5021551/williamfmarvin/ (accessed April 4, 2019).
William F. Marvin, The Battle of Monterey and Other Poems (Danville, Kentucky: A.S. M’Grorty, 1851), 13-67.

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