MARVIN, FREDERICK LYMAN – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     ARVIN,
FREDERICK LYMAN, Muskegon, Michigan, was born in that city September 9, 1875, son of La Ray and Ellen M. (Dyer) Marvin. His father is a graduate of
Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, class of 1870, and a practitioner of Grand Rapids. His grandfather, Harvey B. Marvin, was a homœopathic
practitioner about sixty years ago and a graduate of Castleton (Vermont) Medical College. Frederick L. Marvin, having graduated from the high school of
Muskegon, Michigan, read medicine under his father’s direction and further studied in the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1895-1899, graduating with
the M. D. degree in the latter year. He has since practiced in Muskegon. He took a post-graduate course under Dr. E. H. Pratt of Chicago, in 1899, and
is now on the medical staff (department of pediatrics) of Hackley Hospital, and lecturer on materia medica in Mercy Hospital Nurses’ Training School of
Muskegon. He was city health officer in 1901, county physician of Muskegon county in 1904, and medical examiner for the United States army recruiting
station at Muskegon in 1902. Dr. Marvin is a member of the Phi Alpha Gamma fraternity, the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan, the
Homœopathic Medical Society of Western Michigan, the Physicians Mutual Aid and Protective Association of Muskegon county, the Mason and Elks societies
and Century Club. He married Maud A. Jirich October 28, 1903.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King