The Martin Families of Nodaway County, Missouri

A. K. MARTIN, was born in Connelsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of December, 1817. His father, Alexander Martin, was a native of Ireland, and a contractor by occupation. The maiden name of his mother was Mary A. McCorcan, and she was born in Donegal, Ireland. Alexander accompanied his parents to Knox County, Ohio, where he was reared and received a common school education. When nineteen years of age he commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, working for the small compensation of $4.00 per month for some two years. In the spring of 1839 he emigrated to Logan County, Illinois, where he was engaged in contracting, building, etc., and remained there until 1865, when he moved west and settled in Andrew County, Missouri. There he improved one of the finest farms in the county, but sold out in the fall of 1875, coming to Nodaway County in the spring ot 1876. He then settled in Maryville, and has now retired from active business life. He takes a deep interest in educational matters, and has been a member of the school board ever since he resided here, and has also been a member of the town council. Politically he is a Republican. He took a trip across the plains to California in 1850, spent one year on the coast and returned by the Isthmus. Mr. Martin was married in Logan County, Illinois, on the 28th of January, 1841 to Miss M. Hablit, a native of Greene County, Ohio, born January 10, 1826. They have had ten children, five of whom are now living: Mary P., born April 8, 1842, (now Mrs. Henry Ogle, of Andrew County); Catherine A., born November 15, 1848, (now Mrs. M. K. Hocker, of Colorado); Lodema T., born September 28, 1850, (now Mrs. Elias McAllister, of Nodaway County); Flora E., born January 15, 1855, (now Mrs. J. J. Beam, of Nodaway County); and Nellie, born December 10, 1869. William, James L., Angeline, John H. and Sarah B. are deceased. Mrs. B. is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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GEORGE W. MARTIN, editor in chief, and one of the publishers and proprietors of the Nodaway Democrat, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1843. His father, Wanick Martin, who was a native of Ohio, was by profession a teacher and minister of the gospel. He was also for a considerable period successfully engaged in the banking business. His mother's maiden name was Rachel Harbaugh. She was also a native of Ohio. Young George spent the first six years of his life in his native state, about the end of which period, he moved with his parents to New- Orleans, Louisiana, where he received the rudiments of his literary education. In 1859, he left his southern home, and returning northward, entered Henry and Eureka College, Illinois, where he completed his literary and scientific education, which latter included a competent knowledge of civil engineering. He subsequently spent five years on the western plains, a portion of which time he employed in the avocation of his profession of civil engineer. In 187 1, he settled in the city of Maryville, in Nodaway County, where, during the ensuing period of three years he was successfully engaged in the insurance business. In 1874, he became connected with the Nodaway Democrat, of which he is now (1882), and has been for some years past, in partnership with James Todd, Esq., a proprietor and publisher, as well as its managing editor. His bold and uncompromising avowal of the principles of which the Democrat has long been the exponent in this county, no less than his independence of thought and expression in all matters pertaining to questions of public interest, combined with the general excellence of the Democrat as a newspaper, has won for George W. Martin, no less than for his able associate, James Todd, a reputation for ability in journalism which few similar enterprises in a corresponding period of time in this state have achieved for their originators. Mr. Martin was married in 1873, to Miss Mary Turner, a native of South Bend, Indiana. They have three children: Clarence, Flora, and Henry.

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B. RALEIGH MARTIN.

One of the most successful attorneys of the younger generation in north west Missouri is B. Raleigh Martin, now practicing in St. Joseph, but until recently one of Nodaway county’s best known members of the bar, being known for his industrious habits, prompt and faithful to all business matters entrusted to him, and strictly honest in all his transactions, professional or otherwise. He is deliberate, painstaking and cautious in his methods of work, and in all that he does he recognizes the principles of system and order. His talents are of that would that the world inclines to denominate brilliancy in oratory, and are also of the equally useful, valuable and practical kind. He aims to be familiar with his books, and his purpose is to understand the law: a matter-of-fact, straightforward, responsible, unassuming gentleman and lawyer. He has deservedly gained the respect and confidence of the people, and is succeeding well in his profession, with the best of prospects for a future compensating enlargement of practice.

Mr. Martin was born in McDonough county, Illinois, July 6, 1872, and is the son of Dr. Erancis M. and Salome Sarah (Westfall) Martin, the father

1 1 32 now a well known homeopathic physician of Maryville, a native of Illinois where he was reared and educated. Following his graduation at the Hahne mann Medical College in Chicago, in 1877. he practiced his profession at LaHarpe, Illinois, for ten years, moving to Maryville, Missouri, in 1887 and has remained here to the present time, being one of the best known home paths in the state, and in 1899 was president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Missouri. He married Salome Sarah Westfall on August 24, 1871, in McComb, Illinois, and four children were born to this union: Beverly Raleigh, of this review; Mabel P., of Maryville, Missouri; Dr. Charles V.. whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and Alice Almyra, of Maryville.

B. Raleigh Martin received his primary education at LaHarpe, Illinois, and in the Maryville (Missouri) schools, graduating from the local academy in 1892. He read law while attending school, and after his graduation he entered Judge Ramsay's office, and in 1893 was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Hopkins, Missouri, and was very successful in the practice there until 1898, in which year he was elected prosecuting attorney of Nod away county, his abilities and public spirit having attracted the attention of party leaders and the public as well, for prior to that time he had become prominent as a criminal lawyer, having been retained in a number of important cases, among which were these: the State of Missouri against Ulmer and Rasco, Ulmer receiving a sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary; also that of the state of Iowa against Friend, Beabout and Pope. As a prosecutor he had charge of a number of important cases, all of which he handled with consummate skill and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Martin's oratorical powers and his familiarity with the literature of the world and general topics of the day have rendered his services in demand as a lecturer and he has appeared on many platforms on diverse themes, always delighting his audience, whatever the subject presented. Politically he is a Republican, and he belongs to the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias.

Seeking a large field for the exercise of his talents, Mr. Martin moved to St. Joseph on April 15, 1910, where he will, no doubt, soon take a position in the front rank of the Buchanan county bar.

Mr. Martin was married, in 1893, to Mabel Thurston, the excellent representative of a fine old family of Jackson county, Missouri, and this union has been graced by the birth of two children, Pauline E. S., now fifteen years of age, and Marion T.

Judging from his past enviable record and the fact that he is yet young in years, the future of Mr. Martin is particularly bright as a lawyer, lecturer, politician and citizen.

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THOMAS L. MARTIN, M. D.,

Elmo. The subject of this sketch is a native of Missouri, and was born in Livingston County, August 4, 1840. In 185 1, he moved to Linn County, Missouri, where he grew to manhood, and received a literary education. When at the age of nineteen years he began the study of medicine, having to teach school a part of the time to defray expenses during his studies. In 1865, he began the practice of his profession in Putnam County, Missouri, and in 1870, he located in Mercer County, where he continued his practice till June, 1880. He then came to his present location. Dr. Martin attended the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he graduated February 19, 1873. He is a member of Canada Lodge, No. 329, A. F. and A. M. He was married October 27, 1867, to Miss Martha Wilson. She was born June 16, 1843, and is a native of Indiana. Dr. and Mrs. Martin have one child: Lillian May, born July 8, 1869. The doctor is an excellent physician, readily understanding the wants of his patients. He well merits his success.

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C. S. MARTIN was born September 5, 1846, in Walworth Count) Wisconsin, where he was raised on a farm. After receiving a preparatory course in the schools of the neighborhood he completed his education at Milwaukee. At eighteen years of age he commenced to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for five years. In the fall of 1869 he came west, settling in Hopkins in 1870, and soon opened a grocery store, to which he afterwards added a stock of furniture. Finally discontinuing the grocery business, he added hardware to his furniture business. He now occupies two floors of a building 20x50 feet, filled with a complete stock, and also has a first-class tin shop in the rear of the building. Being one of the oldest business men in this place, he is widely and favorably known, and by his system of honesty and fair dealing has won the patronage of many citizens. He is a member of Lodge No. 333 of the I. O. O. F., of Hopkins. Mr. Martin was married in October, 1872, to Miss Mary Stewart, a native of Wisconsin. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church, of Hopkins, in which he holds the position of Deacon.

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NATHAN A. J. MARTIN, section 33, post office Braddyville. The subject of this biography was born in Ohio, May 20, 1847. He remained there till ten years of age, when with the family he emigrated to Warren County, Illinois, and after a long residence there he removed to this state and settled on his present place. In 1878 he removed to Kansas, where he remained six months, after which time he returned to this county. He has ninety-five acres of land that will bear comparison with any in the county, eighty of which are under cultivation. Mr. Martin was married in 1877 to Miss Clara B. Williamson. They have two children: Catharine M. and Clara M.

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