Carroll-Boone-Warren County IN Archives Biographies.....Haun, Martin G. 1844 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MARTIN G. HAUN.

   Martin G. Haun, farmer, merchant, miller and banker, is one of the best-known
citizens of Carroll county and a man who has, perhaps, been the recipient of
more honors than any other citizen now living in the county. Many years ago he
served for two terms as trustee of Burlington township. Later he served three
years as county councilman, three years as county commissioner and is now
serving his second term of four years each as the auditor of Carroll county. He
is an enthusiastic Republican and has been prominent in the councils of the
party in this county for more than a quarter of a century. A veteran of the
Civil War, there may be found in his career the elements of the large success
which has crowned all of his efforts. He comes from a splendid American family,
one which has always been foremost in the moral and civic life of the community,
one which has stood for loyalty to national government and for all that
contributes to the welfare of a community. Because of his success in life and
his high personal character, he is clearly entitled to the universal respect of
his fellows.

   Martin G. Haun, auditor of Carroll county, was born on October 5, 1844, at
Thorntown, Boone county, Indiana. He is the son of Shepherd B. and Thursa
(McDaniel) Haun, natives of Carter county, Tennessee, and Greenbrier county,
Virginia, respectively. Shepherd B. Haun came to Indiana when a young man with
his parents, Abram H. and Nancy (Hyder) Haun, who settled Thorntown, Boone
county. Abram H. Haun was a farmer by occupation and lived in Boone county until
his death, in i860. Shepherd B. Haun also lived in Boone county until 1862, when
he removed to Warren county, Indiana. After living there for three or four
years, during which period he was engaged in the milling business, he died
suddenly, on March 24, 1864. His wife died in Kokomo, Indiana. They had nine
children, of whom four, George W., the eldest, Caroline, Florence and Hallie,
are deceased. The living children are: Martin G.; Abram H., who lives in
Williamsport, Warren county; Ella, the widow of T. T. Whitaker, of Kokomo;
Katie, the wife of W. H. Swadley, of Warren county, and Mollie, the wife of John
J. Sheffey, of Oakland, California.

   Born and reared in Thorntown, Martin J. Haun was educated in the public
schools of that town. He learned the miller's trade in his father's mill and has
been engaged in this business most of the time since. Upon the outbreak of the
Civil War, Mr. Haun enlisted in the Sixty-third. Indiana Volunteer Infantry and
served for three years in Company I. He participated in all the engagements of
the Atlanta campaign, the battles at Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee, and in
many other skirmishes and minor encounters. After the war Mr. Haun returned to
Indiana and engaged in the milling business in Warren county. Later he removed
to Clinton county and, from Clinton county, to Howard county. Still later he
settled in Carroll county and now owns the Star Roller Mill, at Burlington,
which he has operated for forty years. During this time he has also been engaged
in the mercantile business at Burlington and has farmed. Mr. Haun owns a farm of
sixty acres within one mile of Burlington. In 1886 Mr. Haun was elected trustee
of Burlington township and four years later was re-elected for a second term,
serving in all eight years. In 1894 he was a nominee of the Republican party for
county commissioner from the third district and, having been elected, served for
three years in this office. He was appointed county councilman to a term of
three years and in 1906 was elected auditor of Carroll county, taking the office
in 1908. In 1910 he was re-elected to the second term, which began in 1912. His
repeated elections to office of trust and responsibility in this county prove
better than anything else, not only his titness [sic] for public position, but
also his uprightness in discharging the duties of the respective offices to
which he has been elected and appointed. He has given efficient service in every
position and this service, better than anything else, represents the measure of
the man.

   In January, 1873, Martin G. Haun was married to Elizabeth McCullough, the
daughter of Alexander McCullough, of Vevay, Indiana. Six children have been born
to this happy union, as follow: James P. is cashier of the Burlington Bank, of
which his father is the president; Leslie D. is engaged in the mercantile
business in Burlington; Earl C. is the manager of the Star Rolling Mill at
Burlington; Roy is a contractor; May is the wife of Samuel E. Rodkey, a farmer
who lives east of Burlington, in Howard county; Charles G. is employed in the
auditor's office.

   When the Burlington Bank was organized, nine years ago, Martin G. Haun took a
prominent part in launching this financial enterprise and, for the past four
years, has been president of the institution. The Burlington mill is equipped
with an electric light plant, which also supplies the town of Burlington with
electric light.

   The Haun family comes from Methodist stock and Mr. Haun is a large
contributor, not only to the Methodist church, but to all churches. In fact, he
is one of the most liberal and charitable citizens now living in Carroll county.
Fraternally, Mr. Haun is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana



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