Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Marty, John 1853 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  John Marty, a well known citizen and successful farmer of Mission township, is
a native of Wisconsin. He was born in Green county, January 25, 1853, and is a
son of Jacob Marty, a native of Switzerland, born in 1826. His wife, Electa
Hill, was born in New York in 1830. The Marty family came to Kansas City, Mo.,
in 1865, and the same year came to Kansas, and located in Johnson county. The
family consisted of the parents and four children, as follow: Chloe, born in
Greene county in 1851, married Frank Merritt in 1869 and is now deceased; Mary,
born in Greene county in 1859, married William Poteet, of Johnson county, in
1879, now resides at Paris, Mo., and has five children; John, the subject of
this sketch; Laura, born in Johnson county, June, 1866, married J. A. Peteet, of
Paola, Kan., and they now reside in Orange county, California, and are extensive
orange growers. John Mart}* was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin and
Johnson county, receiving a good common school education. At the age of
twenty-one he engaged in farming on the old home place, on his own account. His
father bought the place in 1865 from a Mr. Holmes, of Kansas City. Holmes had
bought the place from a Mr. Keeler, who got his title from "Red or Rad", a
Shawnee Indian. John Marty has bought additional land and now owns 280 acres of
some of the best land in Johnson county, which has the advantage of joining the
rapidly growing town of Overland Park. It is one of the best kept, best looking
farms along the Strang Line. The farm residence is commodious and modern and one
of the finest in Johnson county. Mr. Marty was united in marriage, December 31,
1874, in Shawnee, now Mission township, Johnson county, to Miss Mildred S.
Williams, of Mission township. Mrs. Marty is a native of Michigan, born at
Battle Creek in 1850. To Mr. and Mrs. Marty have been born five children, as
follow: Charles Sumner, unmarried, a graduate of Kansas Agriculture College, now
a prosperous stockman of Lake City, Barber county, Kansas; Frederick Jacob died
June 28, 1880; Floyd French, educated at Baker University, a successful farmer
near Bucyrus, Kan., and owns the farm formerly owned by D. H. Heflebower,
ex-State treasurer of Kansas, married Edith Coe, who was a student of Baker
University at Olathe, Kan., in 1902, and they have five children, John Robert,
Mortimer Coe, Floyd French, Mildred Elmora and Ruth Louise; Frieda E., born at
Frenchville, Col., a graduate of the State Agricultural College, Manhattan,
class of 1905, resides at Overland Park with her parents; and Jessie Lou, born
in Mission township, is a graduate of the Manhattan Agricultural College, and
Columbia University, New York City, married Loren W. Lawson, June 11, 1912, and
now resides at McPherson, Kan. Mr. Marty recollects many early incidents of
pioneer Johnson county history which left their imprints on his mind as a child.
He remembers when the Quaker mission building near Merriam was used for meetings
and Sunday school, and he attended Sunday school there in 1865, when most of the
attendants were Indians.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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