DESCENDANTS OF REINOLD AND MATTHEW MARVIN, OF HARTFORD, CT., 1638, AND
1635. SONS OF EDWARD MARVIN OF GREAT BENTLEY, ENGLAND. By GEORGE
FRANKLIN MARVIN, of New York, and WILLIAM T. R. MARVIN, of Boston.
T. R. MARVIN AND SON, Publishers, 73 Federal Street, Boston, 1904.
8vo. 659 pages.
Not many families can expect the publication of their genealogies under
more favorable auspices. Mr. William T. R. Marvin, the joint-author,
printer and publisher of this book, inherited the traditions of his art,
and his taste for genealogical studies from his father, who, nearly half
a century ago, printed a genealogy of the Marvins. A comparison of that
little duodecimo of 56 pages with this later volume shows the marked
progress made during the last half century in the arts of compiling and
printing family histories. The vital details of all branches of the
family, beginning with the English ancestry and extending through nine
generations in America have been gathered with scrupulous care, and the
biographical memoranda presented have been selected with discrimination.
The arrangement of the data, the illustrations, the complete index, and
all of the details of book-making are such as one would expect from an
educated man, having a deep interest in the subject and a lifelong
experience as a genealogist and a printer. This book may well be taken
for a model by anyone contemplating the publication of a genealogy....