Biographical Sketch of James W. Martin, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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James W. Martin, farmer of Washington Co., Mo., is a son of Noah and
Margaret (Hinkston) Martin.  His great grandfather Martin was born in
England, from which he and six other small boys were banished to Ver-
mont, for killing a sheep.  They succeeded in obtaining homes.  Mr.
Martin, grandfather of James W., was a soldier in the War of 1812.  In
his family were ten or twelve children, the father of James being one
of these.  The latter was born in North Carolina in 1794, and when 
about seven years of age was taken to Kentucky, where he grew to man's
estate.  In 1816 he came to New Madrid County, Mo., and the following
year to Washington County.  Here he married Miss Hinkston, whose par-
ents were among the first settlers of Washington County.  The father
lived to be eighty-seven years old, and the mother seventy-seven.  By
trade he was a carpenter, millwright and wagon maker.  He built one of
the first gristmills in the county on Miller's branch.  In religious
belief he was a Quaker, and in politics a Democrat.  The mother was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Their family consisted of
four sons and five daughters.  Their youngest child, James W., was born
in Washington County, in 1840.  He was educated in the old subscription
schools and reared on a farm.  In 1861 he enlisted in Col. Freeman's
Regiment.  In 1862 he joined Company E, Second Missouri Cavalry, Con-
federate States army, and was paroled at the close of the war.  He 
participated in the battles of Corinth, Iuka, Cupola (Miss.), and Fort
Pillow (Tenn).  Since his return home he has made farming and stock
raising his chief occupations.  In 1872 he settled on the farm where he
now lives and where he owns 360 acres of land.  At the close of the war
the amount of his possessions consisted of $2.20, but by constant in-
dustry he has acquired his present property. In 1877 he married Margie,
daughter of Robert Whitehead.  She was born in Crawford County in 1858,
and is the mother of three children: Allie, Zora and Pearl. She belongs
to the Missionary Baptist Church.  Mr. Martin is a Democrat and a mem-
ber of the A. O. U. W.

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