The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-09-30
DIED OF HEART FAILURE

mt Farm on Barre ROad-Death
Was Instantaneous Resident
Of Montpelier For Over Forty
Years.
Morton Marvin, one of Montpelier's
dent of this city for the past forty
years, was found dead in stall of his
stable at his farm on the Barre road
Friday afternoon, death being due
to heartt failure.
Mr. Marvin had been to the State
Fair at White River Junction only
Thursday and was apparently en-
joying the best of health. He arose
yesterday morning at the usual hour
and helped to do the chores as was
his custom. Later in the afternoon
he sat down and read a magazine
and then took short walk to where
his son had been working and made
a few suggestions as to the possibility
of getting some hay in. He is said to
have eaten hearty dinner and SEEM
ed to be in the best of spirits. He
talked of the fair and of what he had
seen there proposing to his son Wal
lace that he should also take trip or
a short vacation.
After dinner Mr.. Marvin said that
he would go out into the barn to feed
I. =.
last that was seen of him alive. Mrs.
Morrison went out IF the house about
ten minutes afterward to feed the
chickens and it was she who first
discovered the body by noticing his
gray locks on the straw beneath the
horses. Two of the animals had al
had just been about TO water the third
when he fell backward death result
ing evidently instantly. Mrs. Morri-
son called Wallace Marvin, who was
in the barn-yard, and they both car
ried the dead man to the house. A
glass was Immediately applied to his
lips to see if any life was left in the
body, but no moisture appeared. DR..
William Lindsay was called and after
an examination, announced that death
resulted from a shock due to enlarge
ment of the heart.
Morton Marvin was born in the
town of Alburgh on August 81, 1886.
Iio fnt oil 30 do Co.,
and gave his son the best education
which the town schools afforded. 1t
ter Mr.. Marvin spent three years al
/. the academies at Champlain, N. Y,
attending school at Bakersfield,
Franklin, st. Adams and Swanton.
After finishing his education he re-
turned to his fathers farm and be-
came prominent in the politics of
the neighborhood holding the Office
of town supervisor, selectman and
lister. In 1868 he came to Berlin and
bought a farm of 100 acres which he
occupied at his death. Since that
date he has been more or less iden-
titled with affairs in Montpelier. His
intrest in the city proper became so
great that in 1881 he bought the es-
tate on Seminary Hill, where H. ].
M. Jones now lives, and resided there
for fifteen years.
\ For seven years he was one of the
! bailiffs and was water commission
', er for long period, including the
Jtime when the present system of wa
tter works was constructed. Mr.. Mar
win also held the Office of selectman
and was the chairman of that body
&or several terms. The deceased also
held a number of minor offices, being
prominent in church circles and in
the organization of the first library,
being one of the trustees for great
many years He was married twice
The first time on January 20, 1862, TO
Miss Alice Bingham, of Morristown
- August, 1882. Mr.. Marvin was mar
ried again in December of the follow
ing year to Miss Lydia House, of
Enosburg, surviving her by thirteen
\ years. Mr. Marvin is survived by
three sons, Horace G.. Marvin, of
Michigan, Bingham Marvin, owner OF
the Cloverdale Farm, and Wallace B.
Marvin, who has always remained on
the Berlin farm with his father. In.
terment will take place in Greer
! Mount cemetery on Sunday afternoon
A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas Ec.