Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Martin, J M 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

J. M. Martin, merchant at Sterling, was born in Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 13, 
1841. His father, Joseph R. Martin, died in January, 1877; and his mother, 
whose maiden name was Martha Meshy, is still living. Both his parents were 
natives of the Keystone State, and had seven sons and four daughters. At the 
age of seven years, the subject of this notice left home and lived until 15 
years old with Michael Ebersole, a farmer. He continued in agricultural 
pursuits until the summer of 1862, when he enlisted for the Government in the 
126th Regt Pa. Vol. Inf., Co. A. He went from Chambersburg to Harrisburg, 
where he was mustered into service. After remaining in camp three weeks at 
Arlington Heights, he went to Leesburg, Va., where he participated in the 
second battle of Bull Run. He was then ordered back to Washington and to 
Antietam, where he was held in reserve in camp on the battlefield, until 
October, when he went up the Loudoun Valley and thence to Fredericksburg. 
Engaging in action at the latter place, he received a wound and was confined 
six weeks in the hospital. He returned to his regiment in time to engage in 
the battle of Chancellorsville, soon after which his term of enlistment (nine 
months) expired and he was mustered out at Harrisburg. In the summer of 1864 
he came to Freeport, Ill., and in February, 1865, re-enlisted, in the 147th 
Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf., went to Nashville, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga., where he 
received a commission as Second Lieutenant of Co. E, of the 147th. After a 
delay of two months at Dalton and a month at Resaca, he went with a detachment 
to Albany, Ga., and with the remainder of the regiment to Americus, same 
State, where he was  appointed Adjutant for the battalion; and after serving a 
month in this capacity he was appointed Assistant Provost Marshal for 
Starkville, Lee Co., Ga. Three months afterward he returned to his regiment, 
which soon was moved to Savannah, Ga., where Mr. Martin did Provost duty in 
the city until 1866, when the regiment was mustered out. Returning to Freeport 
for a month, he came to Sterling and acted as clerk in a grocery store during 
the summer (1866); next, in the same capacity for Carpenter & Edison until 
1874; then he went to California and was employed for two months in the 
freight office of the Central Pacific Railroad; and then served as station 
agent at Modesto, Cal., until the fall of 1875, when he came to Sterling and 
engaged again as clerk for E. W. Edison. In the spring of 1877 he was employed 
as salesman for M. B. Rutt & Co., of Sterling, for a year, and then he formed 
a partnership with D. B. Strickler in the dry-goods business. Two years 
afterward C. A. Sheeting purchased Stickler's interest, who in turn sold to 
Mr. Kintzle, and the firm name became Martin & Kintzle, the present style. 
Their store, 40 x 90 feet, is at Nos. 118 and 120, Locust Street, and they are 
carrying on a prosperous business on honorable principles. Mr. Martin is a 
Republican and a member of the Masonic Order. April 17, 1878, he married Miss 
Emma Sheeting, of Freeport, and they have one daughter, born Dec. 10, 1881.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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