Editing Lee Marvin (section)

==Early life==
Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. was born in New York City to Lamont Waltman Marvin – a [[World War I]] veteran of the [[USACE|Army Corps of Engineers]] and an advertising executive – and Courtenay Washington (née Davidge), a fashion writer. Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]] was his first cousin, four times removed.{{sfn|Epstein|2013|pp=6, 14–15}}{{sfn|Bailey|2014|p=270}} He was also a second cousin six times removed of first [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[George Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family relationship of George Washington and Lee Marvin via John Washington. |url=https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-chart.php?name=3647+george+washington&kin=112825+lee+marvin&via=3653+john+washington |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=famouskin.com}}</ref> His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin Sr., who emigrated from [[Great Bentley]], [[Essex]], [[England]], in 1635, and helped found [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. Marvin studied violin when he was young.<ref name="esquire" /> Marvin did not enjoy school and performed poorly. As a teenager, Marvin "spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and [[Northern bobwhite|bobwhite]] in the wilds of the then-uncharted [[Everglades]]".<ref name="hunting">{{cite news|url=https://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/2008/08/elk-hunting-with-lee-marvin.html|title=Elk Hunting with Lee Marvin|work=Gun World|date=May 1964 |access-date=February 6, 2021}}</ref>

He attended [[Manumit School]], a [[Christian socialism|Christian socialist]] boarding school in Pawling, New York, during the late 1930s, and [[Peekskill Military Academy]] in Peekskill, New York. He later attended [[St. Leo University|St. Leo College Preparatory School]], a Catholic school in [[St. Leo, Florida]], after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior (smoking cigarettes, truancy of lessons and fights).<ref>Zec 1980, pp. 20–25.</ref>