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Born 1834
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
HENRY C. MARTIN, farmer, post-office Maple Grove. Jacob and Barbara Martin were born in Pennsylvania; they had ten children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh child, who was born in Bedford county, Pa., May 31, 1834, and moved to Cass county, Ind., where his father died before he was ten years old, and then our subject lived with his sister and brother-in-law. In 1852 his uncle died. In 1864 our subject learned the trade of plasterer and worked at that one year; then coated on the canal. In May, 1857, he was married to Malinda Long, who was born in Clark county, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1837. Mr. Martin ran a saw mill two years and then went into the grocery business. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Light Artillery Nov. 10, 1864, and served until July 5, 1865, when he returned to his store. In 1869 he sold out and came to Jasper county, Mo,, locating in Avilla. Remained there two years, keeping a grocery store; also held the office of constable. He settled on his present farm, consisting of forty acres well improved, August 4, 1874. His children are named Ira J., John
D., and William H. Mr. Martin belongs to the Odd Fellows order; in politics he is a Greenbacker, and himself and family are highly respected.
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