Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Martin, Monroe 1858 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 21, 2006, 3:36 am

Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MONROE MARTIN.

   Monroe Martin, farmer, Camden, Indiana, was born on August 1, 1858, in
Jackson township, Carroll county, and is a son of Andrew J. and Jane A.
(Mabbitt) Martin. His early youth was spent on his father's farm and his
education was obtained by attending the district schools during the winter, his
services being required in connection with the farm work during the summers. He
wras married at the age of twenty-three years and started out for himself on a
rented farm, which he afterward bought. He was very poor at the beginning of his
business career, but was a hard worker and a good manager, all of which has
resulted in his present splendid home place, situated in Jackson township, three
miles northeast of Camden, and consisting of one hundred and twenty-two acres of
good farm land, known as "White Barn Farm." Mr. Martin owns altogether over two
hundred acres. Politically, Mr. Martin has always voted the Democratic ticket,
and has shown his public spirit by serving on the advisory board of the
township. He belongs to the Baptist church, of which he has always been an
active member and a liberal supporter. He took a prominent part in the
organization of the Co-operative Telephone Company, of which he is the manager,
and owns considerable stock in the company.

   Andrew J. Martin, father of the subject of this sketch, was born on March 10,
1828, in Butler county, Ohio, and came with his parents to Indiana in 1832;
settling on the old Martin homestead, where he spent the remainder of his life.
His wife, Jane A. (Mabbitt) Martin, still lives on the old home farm. Mr. Martin
was reared to young manhood on the home farm, located east of Camden, which he
afterward purchased. This farm consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, to
which he added two acres, and was also the owner of other valuable property at
the time of his death, which took place in 1906. Politically, he was a stanch
Democrat, while his religious sympathies were with the Baptist church.
Fraternally, he was allied with the Mt. Zion Lodge No. 211, Free and Accepted
Masons. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were the parents of seven children, of whom those
living in 1915 are: Monroe; Mary E., who is single; Charles, also single; Jesse,
a retired farmer, living at Camden, Indiana, and Anna B., who is the wife of
William Stumbaugh, of Camden.

   Monroe Martin was united in marriage on August 10, 1881, with Martha Lennon,
daughter of Robert S. and Sarah J. (Caldwell) Lennon. She was born on July 8,
1858, in Cass county, Indiana, and was reared in Carroll county, where she was
educated. To this union have been born two children. John R., born on September
13, 1882, who was married to Anna Ringer, and now lives on his father's farm.
They have two children, Julia and Ernest Ellen J., born on October 24, 1884, is
the wife of Harlin Fox, and lives on the old Robert Lennon homestead, where he
is a successful agriculturist. They are the parents of two children, Mary Jane
and Lawrence Benjamin.

   Mr. Martin is a man who is well known in Jackson township, where both he and
his wife have a large number of sincere friends.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/martin165nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/

File size: 4.0 Kb