Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Wix, Martin K 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Wix, Martin K. – The story of the success of Martin K. Wix, agriculturist and 
business man of Aux Sable Township, Grundy County, is short and simple, 
containing in it no exciting chapters, but in it lies one of the valuable 
secrets of the great prosperity which it records, and his private and business 
life are pregnant with interest and incentive, no matter how lacking in 
dramatic action-the record of an honorable life, consistent with itself and 
its possibilities in every particular. Mr. Wix has the distinction of being a 
native son of Grundy County, Ill., having been born on a farm in Nettle Creek 
Township, December 9, 1871, a son of Knute and Emily (Larson) Wix, natives of 
Norway. He was the third of seven children, the others being: Lewis; Ella, who 
married John Welker, of Morris, Ill.; and Edward, also of Grundy County; 
Knute, Emily and Thor, deceased.

Martin K. Wix grew up on the home farm and received his education in the 
country schools, where he proved an earnest, intelligent and ambitious 
student. Upon the completion of his schooling he assisted his mother in the 
work of the home place until he was married, and then rented land in Erienna 
Township, but one year later moved to his present property, a tract of 446 
acres in Aux Sable Township, with eighty acres in timber and the balance in 
pasture and grain. About the year 1894 he bought 175 acres in Kendall County, 
a fine grain farm which he now has rented, in addition to which he rents out 
his 240 acres in Goodwin Township, Roberts County, N. D. He has interested 
himself in various business enterprises, being a director in the Minooka Bank 
and a stockholder in the Farmers Co-operative Grain Elevator at Minooka; also 
the Yorkville elevator. Mr. Wix's farm is one of the attractive places of Aux 
Sable Township, and is supplied with all modern accessories and conveniences, 
which give it an air of thrift, comfort and prosperity.  It is a hospitable 
home, a favorite resort with many friends, and the best homes in the community 
are thrown open to Mr. and Mrs. Wix. They are consistent members of the 
Lutheran Norwegian Church at Morris. Mr. Wix is a stalwart Republican, and has 
served his fellow-citizens in the capacity of school director since
1905.

On March 7, 1894. Mr. Wix was married to Miss Enger Olson, who was born in Big 
Grove Township, Kendall County, Ill., daughter of Theodore and Bertha 
(Thordon) Olson, of Norway. To this union there have been born the following 
children: Clara, born December 16, 1894, who died February 24, 1898; Tilman, 
born October 11, 1896; Clara (II), born October 29, 1898; Irvin, born 
September 3, 1901; Blanchard, born October 16, 1903; Gladys, born December 8, 
1905; Evelyn, born June 7, 1908; and Arlott, born September 8, 1911.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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