Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Martin, Richard 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

RICHARD MARTIN.—This gentleman was born November 29, 1835, in St. Lawrence
county, New York. He was the third child of Richard Martin, and had an elder
brother who also went by the favorite sobriquet of Richard. His father was a
Cornish miner. After the death of his wife, which occurred in 1847, he removed
to the lead mines in Grant county, Wisconsin. The boys were then obliged to look
out for themselves, and the younger Richard made his first venture on a farm. In
1852 he crossed the plains to California, and after a short time spent in
travel, located at Forest City, Sierra county, where he mined until 1856. In
1857 he went to Truckee Meadows, now in Nevada, and engaged in dairying. Two
years after, he raised hay and vegetables for the Virginia City market, and says
that he was one of the first white men to spend a winter on the Meadows. In 1861
he lived in Virginia City, and in 1862 settled in Sierra valley. He began
merchandising at the Summit in 1880, in which occupation he has been very
successful. He was married March 5, 1881, to Martha Austin. Mr. Martin is a
member of Loyalton Lodge No. 187. I. O. O. F., and of Hope Lodge No. 234, F. & A. M.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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