MARTIN, E. D., CAN., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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E. D. MARTIN, BALDWIN.--E. D. Martin is a native of Canada, born March 15,
1841.  He is the son of John and Marceline (Lucier) Martin, both natives of
Canada, who afterward emigrated to the United States, locating in Illinois.

E. D. Martin received his preparatory education in the public schools of
Illinois and afterward entered St. Anne's College, where he completed his
course of mental discipline.  After leaving college he entered the mercantile
business as a clerk. After having served in that capacity for two years; the
war broke out, and as a patriotic soldier he enlisted in the Seventy-sixth
Illinois Volunteers, serving throughout the whole of the struggle.  After the
war he returned to his home and then removed to Iowa, where he married Miss
Fannie Harper, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel Harper, one of the
early settlers of Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of four
children, viz:  Edward S.,  Carrie,  Marceline,  Johnnie.  In 1878 they moved
to Louisiana, locating at Baldwin, where Mr. Martin became the overseer of a
plantation in this State.  He was for eight years engaged in that capacity,
and is now engaged in the mercantile business at Baldwin.  He commenced
business with a capital of about $1000, and has steadily increased his
business until now he does a large business and carries a stock of $13,000,
and his annual sales is $25,000.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
375-376.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.