Excerpt from In Memoriam, Ross Gilmore Marvin, 1905: Service at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Sunday, April Twenty-Fourth, 1910 January, 1880, being the youngest of six children. When he was six years old his father died, and throughout his early life he contributed to his own support by working in vacation and also while attending school. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Elmira and graduated from the Elmira Free Academy in 1899. In the fall of that year, he entered Cornell University, and won both state and university scholarships. He entered Sibley College for the course in electrical engineering, but later transferred to the course in arts and sciences from which he graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His university work was interrupted in 1901 by his joining the training-ship St. Mary's, of the New York Nautical School, for the summer cruise in European waters. He remained with the ship during the next year and graduated from the Nautical School in 1902. Later, he was offered a position on the same ship and accepted it, but returned to Cornell in the summer of 1904. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.