Biography of Martin H. Minton of Alpena, Alpena County, Michigan

Copyright (c) 1998 by Jill Olmack. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb 
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Biography of Martin H. Minton - extracted from The History of the Lake Huron Shore- 
Illustrated 1883

MARTIN H. MINTON, deceased, was one of the pioneers of Alpena. He was born in Ireland 
in 1826 and emigrated to Canada when about twelve years of age.  He learned the 
shoemakers' trade and followed it several years in Canada, and then removed to Saint 
Clair, Mich. In l852 he was married in Canada to Miss Honora O'Mara.  They settled in 
Saint Clair, where they remained until 1860, when they removed to Alpena.  He engaged 
in the boot and shoe business which lie followed a short time and then went into 
fishing, lumbering, and at one time was in general merchandise. He was an active 
business man, and engaged in any legitimate business that offered inducements. He built
the jail and had taken a contract to build a schoolhouse, just before his death. Their 
residence was on the lot now occupied by Mr. Bostwick's drug store. Mr. Minton was 
successful in his business operations and accumulated a handsome property.  His death 
occurred February 8, 1868.  He left a wife and four children, two sons and two 
daughters.  One daughter is the wife of John C. Donnelly, a prominent lawyer of 
Detroit, where they reside.  Since his death Mrs. Minton has built the residence on 
Washington Avenue which she now occupies, and the Minton Block, handsome two-story 
brick structure on Second Street, finished in 1883.