Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

G. N. MARVIN, keeper, weighmaster, shipper and receiver, State Prison, Joliet; was born 
in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1818; his early life was that of a farmer's son; he followed 
agricultural pursuits during his residence at the East; in 1858, he came West and located 
in Plainfield, Will Co., where he was employed as foreman on the farm of A. MCALLISTER 
for one year; he then purchased a farm on the Plainfield road two miles west of Joliet, 
which he farmed two or three years; he next returned East and spent one or two years; 
after traveling some months, he again returned West to Joliet, and was engaged as 
foreman on the farm of William P. CATON for three seasons; he had charge of 1,500 
acres, harvesting about 400 acres of meadow each season; Jan. 9, 1868, he connected 
himself with the prison and has remained here ever since. His first marriage to 
Marietta HAMMOND occurred in 1838; his second marriage to Laura C. BARBER, a native 
of Pennsylvania, was celebrated in 1873; has three children - Emma A., George W. and 
William A., all married.