[p. 54] several very important undertakings in which his parish became involved. The church edifice was remodelled and refitted in 1853, and again in 1860, and then supplied with an organ. Disaster, however, awaited the structure, for on September 9 of the last-named year it and all it contained was reduced to ashes. Nothing daunted, Mr. Marvin took the laboring oar and urged on the erection of a new building, which was completed and dedicated June 12, 1861. A new organ was purchased and also the bell which that year had been carried in so many a street parade during the campaign in which Bell and Everett were candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. The same now hangs in the tower of the Mystic Church.
Mr. Marvin resigned his office as pastor in January, 1865, and was formally dismissed November 8 of the same year by the ecclesiastical council which installed his successor.
The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College, in 1866.
His resignation was given in order to assume the editorial and business management of the ‘Boston Recorder,’ and when that paper was consolidated with the ‘Congregationalist,’ in 1867, he joined the editorial staff of the united papers, and was also at the same time the managing editor of the ‘Congregational Review.’ Later he purchased and managed till his death a small paper called the ‘Daily News,’ in order to advance the cause of temperance, of which he was a stern advocate. He was twice married: first to Miss Elizabeth Burke, of Michigan, and second to Miss Julia A. Carleton, of Charlestown, who, with four daughters and two sons, survived him. His death occurred in Wellesley, Mass., March 1, 1874.
