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Levi Marston

1816 – 1904

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Lived 1816 – 1904 (aged 88). Levi Marston was a sea captain.

Levi Marston (June 3, 1816 – August 3, 1904) was an American sea captain from Maine. In 1852, he was awarded a gold medal for heroism by Queen Victoria after he saved over three hundred immigrants from a British shipwreck.

Life and career Marston was born in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Thomas Marston and Eunice Roberts. Joseph B. Smith's 1851 oil painting of the Harriet and Unicorn He first went to sea at the age of fourteen, and went on to command his own brig, Harriet. He sailed around Cape Horn thirty-two times during trading in China, the West Indies and on the coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The following year, he was awarded a gold medal for heroism by Queen Victoria.

He married twice: firstly to Lavinia Mitchell (who died in 1880), then, four years later, to her sister Mary Louise Mitchell. They were daughters of John Mitchell and Eliza Gooding. Levi was Mary's third husband.

Marston lived at Riverside Farm on North Road in today's Yarmouth. His daughter, Ellen, and her husband, James Lawrence, assumed ownership of the farm when he moved to Yarmouth.

He helped begin Yarmouth's Methodist church in the 1890s.

Death Marston died on August 3, 1904, aged 88. He is interred in North Yarmouth's Pine Grove Cemetery, in a plot with both of his wives.

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American sea captain

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Levi Marston was born on 3 June 1816 in North Yarmouth, Maine.

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Levi Marston died on 3 August 1904 in Yarmouth, Maine.

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Levi Marston was a sea captain.

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· Wikipedia: Levi Marston

· Wikidata: Q113264275

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