The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-14
MARVIN, VICTIM OF
POLAR DASH, HAD
JERSEY F|ANCEE
Mother of Girl Bares Hidden RO-
nance of Professor in Corr
nell University.
SCIENTIST WAS TO HAVE
BEEN MARRIED ON RETURN
Mrs. Marvin, Opposed to Match,
Kept News Of Sons ATT 80
tachment Secret.
Especial to the Newark Star.1

EpGEWATER, Oct. 14--That Pro-
fesspr Ross G. Marvin, the lone martyr
Of the last Peary pole hunting expedi-
tion. left, when he sailed away on the
( Roosevelt a sweetheart in this town
whom he was to nave married on mis-
return, was known but to the. young
woman herself, the members of her m
mediate family and her intimate friends
until yesterday, when the story of the
romance was made public here.
1T was because the mother of the
young scientist who paid the penalty
Of His life for his desire to wiz fame
as 4 polar explorer vas so u~nalterably
OPPOSED to the match and had refused
after the death of her son to w men-
tiom the fact that he was to have been
married on his return that Mrs. James
MARSHALL, mother OF Miss Margaret
MARSHALL, of Edgewater. determined tc
let the world know that another
molfrned the young professors death
with a distress which perhaps equaled
that of the members of his immediate
family.
According to Mrs. Marshall, whose
husband is employed in a chemical
plant here. Mrs. Marvin, who is social
~ Prominent in Elmira, N. Y, objected
TO Her sons proposed marriage to Miss
Marshall because the latter was poor
andt socially obscure, had opposed 1t
frorh the beginning and had refused
aftdf Professor Marvin left for the far
Ncrth to mention the engagement to
Anypne or communicate with her sons
f1antee.
According to the story told by Mrs.
Marshall, her daughter met Marvin in
Elniira, his home town, several years
agol while she was visiting relatives
the4e. He was a cadet on the school
shiH st. Mary. The girl was interested
IN mathematics n science, in which
Ma1vin had already shown marvellous
apttu de, and they were drawn to-
get1er. In the years which followed
they corresponded regularly, but saw
each other but seldom.
When Marvin returned, after accom-
panking the 'farthest North Peary ex-
petition of 1905, he and Margaret Mar
shall became engaged He was made
an Instructor in Cornell University.
Mra Marvin, who had planned a bril-
Liant marriage for her son. was heart
broken when he toldvher of his engage
me1t and refused to SANCTION 1t, The
Roosevelt had sailed when Marvin OBJ
taided leave Of absence for two years
frorh Cornell. He wired Peary and was
Instructed in a return message to meet
the Roosevelt at Sydney. Miss Marshall
hurled to Elmira to the home of her
uncle. and as Marvin came to bid good
byeI to his mother, the lovers met for
thetlast time. Marvin outlined to the
girl his plans for the future, told her of
how, if he obtained the specimens he
sought, his position as a scientist would
be Established. and exacted her promise
thai upon his return they would be
married. ~
Ftom Sydney, where he met the
Roosevelt, Marvin wrote to his sweet
heatt, and Miss Marshall received am
oth4r letter from him which had been
written while he was on his way to
Battle Harbor, Labrador. That was the
1ast} time she heard from him..
MRS. Marshall declared that Professor
Madvin's mother had never once in ac-
cordance with his request communi-
catd with Miss Marshall. nor had she,
eve4 after the young mans death, inti-
mated hat he had planned to marry
upoh his return from the Arctic regions.
ItIwas because of this unfeeling atti-
tud4, declared Mrs. Marshall, and in
h5ushce to her daughter, to whom the
tradic news from the north had been
as Ieart-rending as 1t was in the. young
mans home in Elmira, that she had
finally determined to tell of the ro-
mauce.