Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Martin, Benjamin Franklin April 21, 1838 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 791 & 792

Benjamin Franklin Martin, Postmaster and dealer in general merchandise, 
Chester, was born April 21, 1838, in Chester County, Pa., and is the third son 
of Benjamin L. and Sarah (Christman) Martin. His parents moved to Wayne 
County, Ind., when he was young, and he was educated at the Centreville 
College. He held the position of clerk in the auditor's office, and was with 
his father in the Government disbursing department for some little during the 
late war. He was Second Lieutenant of Company F, Seventy-eighth Indiana 
Infantry, and was on duty near Vicksburg, Miss., where the poor water and warm 
climate caused the death of a great many of the members of his company. He was 
married in October, 1863, to Sarah A., daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Dakin) 
Jemison, both now living. They have two children---Benjamin F. and Maud E. In 
February, 1876, Mr. Martin engaged in his present mercantile business in which 
he has been very successfu1. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity 
since 1861, and belongs to Lodge No. 42, Centreville. His political 
affiliations are with the Republican party.

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