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JOSEPH H. MARVIN, grocer, Aberdeen, was born in West Union, Adams Co., Ohio, in the year 1819; is a son of Oliver H. Marvin, a native of Utica, N. Y., who settled in West Union about 1815, and followed farming there until 1822; he then moved to this county, and in 1824 removed to Maysville, Ky., where he operated a bakery till 1832, when he returned to Aberdeen, and engaged in the same business; he afterward moved to Lewis County, Ky., where he died in 1857, at the age of seventy-five years. He had six children, of whom only our subject lives in this county. A sister, Malinda McDowell, lives in Oregon. The deceased are Leonard, William T., infants. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, stationed at Sackett’s Harbor. Mrs. Marvin died in 1846, at the age of seventy-three years. The boyhood of our subject after his third year was passed in this county, and after becoming of proper age he learned the baker’s trade, which, on account of failing health, he abandoned and sought employment on the river, and followed it in different capacities for about seven years, after which he commanded the ferry-boat at the crossing for about a period of nine years. Then he went on a steamboat in 1845, and the following year opened a grocery in Aberdeen, where he has since been engaged with the exception of three years he passed in Adams County, Ohio, on the farm. He served as Constable from 1869 to 1871 continuously; Mayor two years, and was Councilman a number of terms. He is a member of the Christian Church at Bethlehem, which he joined in 1843. Mr. Marvin has been successful as a business man, and has accumulated a sufficient competency. He was twice married; first in 1841, to Miss Gray, daughter of Isaac Gray, an old settler; she bore him five children, namely — Josephine and Thomas L. Hamer, living, and Melissa Oliver and William J., deceased. Mrs. Marvin died in 1876, at the age of fifty-two years. His second marriage was celebrated with Margaret (Boyle) Bidle, daughter of Daniel Boyle, of West Union, in 1877. He owns town property in Aberdeen consisting of seven lots, five with buildings.