BIO: Robert B. MARTIN, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 135.
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ROBERT B. MARTIN
Mount Union, Pa.

Radios:  Robert B. Martin was born on a farm in Miller Township, Huntingdon 
County, Pa., April 26, 1906, a son of W. B. Martin, of Huntingdon, Pa.  He 
is a guard at the Huntingdon Reformatory; has been for four years; he was a 
farmer for seventeen years in Miller Township; he married Norah Peightal; 
she is deceased; died in 1927 at the age of forty-two years.  Robert Martin 
received his first preliminary education at the Summit school in Miller 
Township.  He graduated at the Altoona High School (Academic course) in the  
class of 1924, after which he taught school, where he first attended school, 
for two years.  Two and a half years he spent in the United States Signal 
Corps, stationed principally at Monmouth, New Jersey, although he was sent 
to various places all over the United States.  He entered as a private and 
was discharged as a Corporal.  He is single; he has one brother, Earl, a 
farmer, at McAlevy's Fort, Huntingdon county.  Mr. Martin belongs to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Manor Hill, Huntingdon county.  He prefers the 
Democratic party in national affairs, but is independent in local affairs.  
He represents the Stewart-Warner radio, a standard make and well known to 
the public, which is sold for cash or installment terms.  He repairs and 
furnished parts if needed.  He is an expert in his line and an inventive 
genius.  The following is quoted from the Mount Union Times:  "Robert B. 
Martin, local radio dealer, has received an operator's license to operate 
his transmitting short wave station, which he recently rigged up in his 
radio store at 33 South Jefferson street.  The call letters of his station 
are W8CDL, and all messages are sent in code.  Many of these amateur 
stations have been licensed throughout the country, and in the experimenting 
many valuable discoveries of radio mysteries have been made.  Many messages 
have also been picked up by amateur operators.  Mr. Martin has been sending 
messages daily to his friend, Dean Tussey, at Huntingdon, who has also been 
experimenting and has rigged up a short wave broadcasting station, and who 
has received the greetings.  He also has a receiving station in order to 
pick up messages in the air.  The apparatus is very miniature and fine in 
its make up and is most interesting to visitors who visit the radio store in 
the Crum building.  Mr. Tussey, of Huntingdon, has also been licensed and 
the call numbers of his station are W8CEE.  Mr. Martin, since locating at 
Mount Union, has been successful.  He covers a large territory and is well 
liked by the community.