Yavapai County AZ Archives Biographies.....Martin, J. C. March 9, 1846 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 457-458

  HON. J. C. MARTIN. A close observer, in studying the history of the
advancement and development of Yavapai County, Arizona, will find golden threads
running through the web and woof of events in the last twelve or fourteen years.
These are indications of the lives of those men whose public spirit and energy
have made her first among the cities of the West, and have given her a
conspicuous place with any city of the United States. A true representative of
such men is found in one whose career inspires this brief notice. J. C. Martin
was born March 9, 1846, in Westmoreland County, Penn., and received a thorough
education in that State, later attending Monmouth College, at Monmouth, Ill. Out
of a class of twenty-five students in the latter institution, Mr. Martin and
twelve others followed journalism. Mr. Martin first branched out in that line of
business in Washington County, Kan., where he became proprietor of the
Washington Republican in 1870. In September, 1874, he came West to California,
and started the paper, "Gilroy Leader." at Gilroy, Cal., which he conducted
until September, 1876. On the 31st of December, 1875, he was married, and in the
autumn of 1876 moved to San Francisco, where he was employed on one of the daily
papers. In November, 1882, he came to Prescott, Arizona, purchased the Arizona
"Journal," and in 1885 purchased the "Arizona Miner," the oldest paper in the
Territory, and consolidated the two. On February 22, 1890, he was appointed by
President Harrison Register of the United States Land Office at Prescott, and
held that position within two months of the full term of four years, President
Cleveland appointing his successor in December, 1893. In November, 1894, Mr.
Martin was elected a member of the Eighteenth Legislative Session, and received
the highest vote of any candidate on either side for the position. While a
member of the House he introduced and secured the passage of a mining law,
requiring locators of mines to do a certain amount of work before recording
notice of location, a measure which has been of great benefit to the mining
interests of the Territory by breaking up the pernicious system in vogue in many
places of prospectors locating, holding and re-locating claims year after year
without doing any development work on them.


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From:

A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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