History of Ulysses, (Potter County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Biography of Marlin Edgar Olmsted

Marlin Edgar Olmsted, representative, was born in Ulysses, Pottor county, Penn.; son of Henry and Evalena Theresa (Cushing) Olmsted; grandson of Daniel and Lucy (Schofield) Olmsted, and of Lucas and Chloe (Wood) Cushing; a descendant in the ninth generation from Richard Olmsted from Suffolk, England, an original proprietor of Hartford, Conn., and also from Matthew Cushing, who came from Hingham, England in 1638, and commenced the settlement of Hingham, Mass. He was educated in the public schools and at the Coudersport academy; was a corporation clerk. 1870-75; was admired to the bar in 1878, at Harrisburg, Pa.; became attorney for many of the principal railroad and other corporations of the state; president and general counsel of the Beth Creek and the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad companies; was elected to represent Dauphin county in the proposed constitutional convention in 1891, and was a Republican representative from the fourteenth Pennsylvania district in 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1897-1905.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor