BIO:  Jacob MARTIN, New Oxford, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 497-498

JACOB MARTIN (deceased) was a native of Adams County, born in the village of New 
Oxford on the 1st of May, 1806.  His parents were Matthias and Elizabeth 
(Marshall) Martin, highly respected people of Adams County.  Our subject was a 
tailor by trade, which occupation he commenced in 1831, and after following it 
for a period of ten years he commenced mercantile business for himself, in which 
he was engaged for eighteen years.  He was of a sympathizing and confiding 
nature, which brought upon him embarrassments in a financial way, and favors 
extended to acquaintances and friends proved a financial ruin to him.  For a 
period of ten years after retiring from mercantile business he managed the 
“Eagle Hotel.”  He was twice married; first, to Catherine Swearinger, by whom he 
had two sons, Franklin and Anthony M., both soldiers in the late war, the latter 
serving as first-lieutenant of Company I, Eighty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry.  He was subsequently promoted to adjutant, and was killed at 
Monacacy Junction, Md.  The Adjutant Martin Post, No. 510, G. A. R., at New 
Oxford, is named in his honor.  Three years after the death of his first wife 
Mr. Martin was united in marriage with Lydia Smith, a daughter of Jacob and 
Catharine (Follow) Smith, of Adams County, and of this union were born five 
children:  Lizzie and Harry, who passed childhood years (now deceased) and three 
who died in infancy.  Mr. Martin’s death occurred May 10, 1885.  He lived a long 
and useful life, which was passed in New Oxford.  He was a devoted Catholic (to 
which church his widow belongs), and donated the lot and aided largely in 
building the church at New Oxford.