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Born 1837, Morgan county
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)
MILES MARTIN, born in Morgan county, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1837, and there raised. He removed to Davis county, Iowa, in 1857, coming to Woodson county, Kas., the coming May. He enlisted at lola, Kas., Oct. 19, 1861, in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, serving three years and four months. He was married June 13, 1867, to Nancy E. Nash, who was born in Nodaway county. Mo., Feb. 4, 1847, and raised there. The children are Timothy D., Sallie J., William, Alta Gr., and four not living. Mr. Martin owns a farm of 60 acres, where he resides, and 240 in Cherokee county, Kan., just across the state line from his Missouri farm. Forty acres sown to wheat averaged 20 bushels, and seventy-five acres of corn averaged 40 bushels to the acre. There is a small orchard started. Mr. Martin has one of the best farm-houses in this part of the country, and although comparatively a new farm is making rapid substantial improvements. It is located in sight of Smithfield, in township 28, range 34, and section 3.
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