From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 840

REV. MARVIN G. HODGE, former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Milwaukee, was born February 20, 1822, in Hardwick, Vermont.  His father's name was Levi HODGE, and his mother's maiden name was Fannie WHEATLY.  She was a descendant of a Huguenot family, who fled from France in the days of persecution.  He was educated in the public schools of his native village, at the Craftsbury Academy and the Literary and Theological institutions at Derby, Vermont, under the instructions of Rev. Drs. Herman LINCOLN and Alvah HOVEY.  He began preaching when at the Detroit Institute.  On the 15th of June, 1843, he was ordained by an ecclesiastical council, convened at Charleston, Vt.  In 1845, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Colchester, Vt.  In 1846 he was married to Miss Harriet L. KELLAM, of Irasburgh, Vt.  In 1849 he accepted a charge at Hinesburgh, Vt., where he remained two years.  He was afterwards pastor of a church at Stillwater, N.Y., until 1854, when he removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., and took charge of Hanson Place Church.  He was at the same time editor of the Home Mission Record.  In the Spring of 1864 he removed to Wisconsin in the hope of regaining his health.  For four years he preached occasionally and also served as one of the Secretaries of the Home Missionary Society.  From 1865 to the Fall of 1871, he was pastor at Janesville, Wisconsin.  From the Spring of 1872 to the Fall of 1878, he was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Mich.  He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Chicago in 1867.  The same year he was elected President of Wayland University in Wisconsin, but declined to leave pastoral labor.  In October, 1878, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, of Milwaukee, which position he lately resigned.  He has had five children.  Lizzie M. is the wife of E. F. WELCH, of Janesville; Hattie O., the wife of J. S. HATCH, Washington, D.C.; Emma F., the wife of D. F. WILCOX; Carrie L., teacher of painting and music, and organist in her father's church.  A son, Fred M. graduated from the college at Kalamazoo, Mich, class of 1880, and is now assistant professor of Latin in his Alma Mater.

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