Andrew Marvick Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ANDREW MARVICK, treasurer and manager of the Iowa and Dakota Land 
Company, and stockholder in the Citizens' National Bank, Sisseton, is a 
native of Grundy county, Illinois, where his birth occurred on June 28, 
1871. His parents, Seivert and Laura (Naadland) Marvick, were born in 
Norway and in 1854 came to the United States, settling in Illinois, 
where the father purchased land and became a successful tiller of the 
soil. Andrew grew up in close touch with the rugged duties of farm life, 
and after receiving an elementary education in the public schools of his 
native county entered the normal school at Morris, Illinois, where he 
pursued for some time the higher branches of learning. His education 
finished, he engaged in farming in Illinois and continued the same for 
some years, later embarking in the real-estate business in Minnesota and 
South Dakota. In the spring of 1902 he opened a real-estate office in 
Sisseton and after conducting the same with marked success until the 
following fall, when he helped to organize the Citizens' National Bank, 
of which his brother, Joseph Marvick, is president. 

	Mr. Marvick is an accomplished business man and although but 
recently identified with banking, he has demonstrated abilities and 
resourcefulness as a financier such as few attain after a much longer 
and more varied experience. Under his able management the Citizens' 
National Bank has become not only one of the leading institutions of the 
kind in Roberts county, but in the northeastern part of the state, and, 
being backed by safe and conservative men, it bids fair to achieve ere 
long an honorable reputation among the popular and successful banks of 
the great northwest. In addition to his connection with the banking 
interests of Sisseton, Mr. Marvick is identified with various other 
business enterprises that have had a decided influence upon development 
of the country, notably among which being the Iowa and Dakota Land 
Company, which he is now serving in the twofold capacity of manager and 
treasurer. 

	Mr. Marvick ranks with the intelligent and level-headed men of the 
city of his residence and in every relation of life has made a 
reputation for probity and correct conduct that has become proverbial. 
His impulses, always earnest and generous, are invariably in the right 
direction, and the encouraging success with which his business career 
has been crowned is mainly due to his industry, fidelity and the spirit 
of courtesy characteristic of the well-bred, broadminded gentleman. 

	Mr. Marvick was married on February 20, 1895, to Miss Linnie 
Bjelland, a native of Illinois, but of Norwegian parentage, the union 
resulting in the birth of three children, Lydia, Raymond O. and Amos S. 
Mr. and Mrs. Marvick have one of the most beautiful modern residences in 
Sisseton, and their pleasant home is noted for the hospitality and 
spirit of good fellowship that welcome all who enter its precincts. In 
private life the subject is quiet and unobtrusive, but warm-hearted and 
affable in his relations with his fellow men. He numbers his friends by 
the score, stands high in public esteem and the prominent position which 
he has already reached in business and social circles is indicative of 
the still greater and more influential career that awaits him in the 
future. Religiously Mr. Marvick and wife are Lutherans, being among the 
leading members of the church of that denomination in Sisseton.