Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Martin, James 1825 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   James Martin, postmaster and grain dealer, Attica, the eldest son of Thomas
and Elizabeth M. (Marshall) Martin, was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1825. He
was educated in the common schools, and learned the saddler's trade, but never
followed it. His father was a merchant, and since he was eighteen he has also
been in the same business. In 1839 his father removed with his family to La
Fayette, Indiana, and there Mr. Martin made his permanent residence until 1851,
at which date he settled in Attica. From 1843 to 1851 he was selling goods, but
in the latter year he embarked in the grain trade and has since followed that
business with signal success, extending his operations over a large territory
and making numerous places branches of the central point. Honorable business
principles and practices, and an untiring activity and spirit of enterprise have
characterized Mr. Martin's intercourse with the public and made him an enduring
and gratifying reputation. He has devoted himself with singleness of purpose to
his business, and never aspired to office, though he might have held very good
civil positions had he ever announced a desire for such. In April, 1879, he
accepted the appointment of postmaster, in which office he gives universal
satisfaction. Mr. Martin has been a Mason and an Odd-Fellow thirty-three years.
In politics he is thoroughly republican, pronounced in his views, though by no
means unpleasant to opponents in the expression of them. Mr. Martin was married
in 1851 to Miss Mary M. Gookins, of Perrysville. Four sons, all living, have
been the issue of this union: Lucius G., Harvey C, Frederick V., and J. Ralph.
Mrs. Martin has been a member of the Presbyterian church twenty years.

Additional Comments:
Logan Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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