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Author: Marks, David

Biography:

MARKS, David (1805-45: ancestry.com)

He was born in Shandaken NY to Rosanna (Merriman) and David Marks, Calvinistic Baptists, but in 1819 he was converted, joined the Free Will Baptists, and embarked at the age of 15 on a fruitful career as a minister and itinerant preacher for that church. For a few years (1831-5), he also acted as its "book agent" or publisher. He travelled widely in North America, mostly on horseback with a book constantly in his hands. According to his posthumously-published Memoirs, "He remarked not long before his death, that he had never read a novel" (512). In 1829 he married Marilla Turner; there appear to have been no children. Deprived of formal education in his youth, he took advantage of the opportunity to attend Oberlin College in the last year of his life, but died in Oberlin OH. (ancestry.com 6 Jan. 2020; Marilla Marks, ed., Memoirs of the Life of David Marks [1846])

 

Other Names:

  • David Marks, Jr.
 

Books written (1):

Rochester [NY]: printed for the author by E. Peck and Co., 1830