Bio of MARTIN, Jay R. (b.1864), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 703
JAY R. MARTIN
Jay R. Martin, president of the Brooks Elevator Company of Minneapolis, was born
at Minneiska, Minnesota, on the 9th of December, 1864, his parents being Jay R.
and Jeannette R. (Drake) Martin of the state of New York, both of whom are
deceased. His paternal grandfather was one of the first officials of the Empire
state. In the maternal line he is descended from old English stock. Jay R.
Martin, Sr., established the Brooks Elevator Company, Incorporated, at
Minneiska, Minnesota, in 1852, in association with Dr. Sheldon R. Brooks and
continued in the grain business there for a decade. As he settled in Minneiska
before a railroad had been built, all grain was shipped by barge to St. Louis.
He died in the same year that witnessed the birth of his son and was survived
for fifty-seven years by his wife, who passed away in 1921, at the age of
eighty-four.
Jay R. Martin of this review is now president of both the Brooks Elevator
Com­pany of Minneapolis and the Brooks Elevator Company, Limited, of Winnipeg.
He assumed control in 1907 and remained the active head of the business until
1915, since which time he has lived in semi-retirement, leaving the management
of the corpora­tions to his two sons.
On the 9th of October, 1890, Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Miss Bertha M.
Grafft of Annandale, Minnesota, and they are the parents of two sons: Gerald R.,
who was born May 26, 1892, and acts as manager for his father; and Charles J.,
whose birth occurred August 28, 1894, and who is Canadian manager of the Brooks
Elevator Company, Limited, of Winnipeg. The family attend the Church of the
Redeemer, of which Rev. Marion D. Shutter is pastor. Mrs. Martin has for some
years been asso­ciated with the Thursday Musical and is secretary of the Bethany
Home Association. In politics Mr. Martin is a republican. He spends the winter
seasons in California and is an enthusiastic golfer.