Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Martin, George D. 1840 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com November 23, 2007, 1:30 am Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) GEORGE D. MARTIN. This well-known citizen of Dayton Township, Tuscola County, was born in 1840 in Oneida County, N. Y., and is a son of Martin and Louisa Martin. Martin Martin was born in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, in 1796, and there received the usual education and drill provided for the sons of Germany and was able to read and write in two languages. He also served an apprenticeship to a shoemaker and worked at this trade until he came to America which was in the year 1833. He then located in Oneida County, N. Y., upon a farm, and there our subject was born and the family remained until 1850. At that time Martin Martin removed to Haldimand County, Canada, and spent the remainder of his life in that vicinity, dying there in 1854. His wife, Louisa Claceman, is the daughter of Ernest and Sally Claceman, the father being a Prussian and the mother a native of Saxony. Six of the seventeen children born to the parents of our subject are now living, namely: Henry, Hannah (now the wife of Henry Weaver), Louisa (Mrs. Jacob Shible), George D., Godfrey, and Harriet (Mrs. George Yaunt). The father of our subject was the smallest in physique of three brothers and he measured six feet three inches in his stocking feet. He was for seven years in the German army where he served the Government faithfully and was a son of Philip Martin, a Prussian shoemaker, and a grandson of Casper Martin. This ancestor's name was originally Grosch and was changed during the French and German wars of the sixteenth century. When only fourteen years old, George Martin devoted himself to acquiring the trade of a shoemaker and served an apprenticeship of four years, after which he followed that trade for some fifteen years. It was in 1863 that he located in Michigan and three years later he settled on the farm which is now his home. Here he devoted himself for several winters to working at his trade while carrying on agriculture during the summer seasons, but of late years he has given his entire energy to farm work. He now has one hundred and sixty acres and fully one-half of this property is in an improved condition and producing large and fine crops. The marriage of George Martin and Triphena F. Shoup, daughter of Jacob and Amarilla (Sutherland) Shoup, took place March 17, 1862, and this happy marriage has resulted in the birth of seven children, two of whom died in early infancy, and Jacob E. was killed in July, 1890, by a railroad accident. Arminda C. is now the wife of Tunis R. Kice, and Edith E. has married Charles Clinesmith, while Emma L. and Sarah C. are still beneath the parental roof. The Free-Will Baptist Church of the neighborhood is the one with which Mr. and Mrs. Martin are prominently identified and our subject is also a member of the Mayville Lodge, No. 394, F. & A. M. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/bios/martin902gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb