BIO: Joab Martin, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER XL.

                        BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG. 

445  BOROUGH OF SHIPPENSBURG.

  JOAB MARTIN, dealer in grain, coal and fertilizers, Shippensburg, was 
born in Shippensburg, Penn., November 17, 1828, son of Paul Martin and 
Mary Fry Martin.  Paul Martin was the son of Thomas Martin.  Thomas 
Martin was the son of Paul Martin, one of eight brothers who came to 
this country from the North of Ireland in the year 1725, and settled in 
Delaware County, Penn.; in 1730, a part of the family of eight brothers 
moved into Cumberland Valley.  Four of the eight brothers were 
Presbyterian ministers, and in about the year 1727 left Delaware 
County, Penn., and settled in North and South Carolina, where they were 
inter-married with the Preston family.  Our subject's great-
grandfather, Paul Martin, and his grandfather, Col. Thomas Martin, were 
both soldiers in the Revolutionary war; and his father, Paul Martin, 
was a soldier in the war of 1812.  Joab Martin was married to Lucinda 
O. Hostetter, of Lancaster County, Penn., in 1863, and they have six 
children:  One son, Thomas Paul, studying medicine at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, and five daughters, of whom Mary 
O. is a graduate of the State Normal School and his other four attend 
the borough schools.  In politics, Mr. Martin is a Republican.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Martin and their two eldest daughters are members of the 
Presbyterian Church of this place.