Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Murdoch Martin January 25 1844 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   MURDOCH MARTIN, a prominent merchant and planter of Clio, is a native of
Barbour county, Ala., and dates his birth from the 25th of January, 1844. His
father, Martin D. Martin, was born in Richmond county, N. C., in 1833, came to
Alabama and after engaging in the Indian war, went back to his native state and
there married Margaret McRae, whom he at once brought to Alabama, settling in
the western part of Barbour county, where he died in 1860; his widow survived
him a number of years, departing this life in 1891. Of the five children born to
Martin D. and Margaret Murdoch three are now living, namely: Murdoch Martin, the
subject of this sketch, A. L., a merchant at Clayton, and J. P., a well known
physician of Birmingham. Murdoch Martin, Jr., was reared to manhood in Barbour
county, and in 1861 he enlisted in company G, Twenty-ninth Alabama infantry with
which he served first at Pensacola and later took part in the battle of Resaca,
and other engagements of the Atlanta campaign. At the battle of Cassville, Ga.,
he was wounded in the hand, crippling that member for life, after which he was
compelled to leave the ranks and did not succeed in rejoining his command, the
declaration of peace preventing him from again going to the front. Returning
home at the close of the war, Mr. Martin at once engaged in farming, which he
still carries on and in which his success has been all that he could have
reasonably expected. His plantation is a beautiful place, embracing an area of
1,700 acres, and in addition to farming he carries on a very successful
mercantile business at Clio, where he began selling goods in 1886. His stock,
valued at $4,000, embraces a full line of merchandise, demanded by the general
trade, and the business done yearly will aggregate in the neighborhood of
$25,000. Mr. Martin is the leading man of Clio and one of the well-to-do
representative citizens of Barbour county. His political faith is represented by
the democratic party, and for many years he has been prominent in religious work
as a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he holds the office of deacon.
His marriage to Miss Belle McLennan, of Barbour county, was consummated in 1867
and to the union have been born the following children: John D., student at A. &
M. college, Auburn, Ala., James P., William C. and Daniel S.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" p. 448


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