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Born 1858
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)
IRA J. MARTIN, post-office Maple Grove. Among the rising young men of Jasper county is the subject of this sketch. His birthplace is Cass county, Ind., and the date Oct. 4, 1858, and he was reared on a farm and educated in Cass county and in Jasper county. Mo., to which place he moved with his parents in 1869. He worked out by the month on a farm until 1874, and then commenced to farm for himself. Oct. 4, 1881, he was married to Miss Erassmy, daughter of Erasmus and Elizabeth Chedester, natives of Indiana. She was born May 15, 1866, and was married in New Buffalo, Mich., in 1881. By this union they have one child, Mabel M. Mr. Martin now has a fine farm of 120 acres, all under cultivation, good orchard, and good house, and fair out-buildings, the farm being well watered. Mr. Martin is a member of the Odd Fellows order, and a good farmer.
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