Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Martin, Isaac N. November 28, 1822 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

ISAAC N. MARTIN is an honored resident of Canton, where he is living, retired from
active business, in a comfortable home that is the center of true and generous
hospitality. He is one of the oldest settlers of Lincoln county, formerly being one
of its successful farmers, and is now passing the evening of his life enjoying the
fruit of his labor.

Mr. Martin’s natal day was November 28, 1822, and he first saw the light in what is
now Ashland county, Ohio, but which at that time was a part of Richland county. His
father, Isaac Martin, was a farmer by occupation, and died in Green county, Wis.,
whither he had gone in the spring of 1850. Isaac N. was raised and grew to manhood
on his father’s farm in Ohio, assisting in its cultivation until he attained his
majority, when he engaged in tilling the soil on his own account. Up to the spring
of 1850 he continued carrying on farming in Ohio, but at that time purchased a farm
in Green county, Wis., on which he resided until 1868, the date of his arrival in
Lincoln county, Dak. Ter. He entered a claim which now constitutes a part of the
town of Canton, on which he took up his home until the next year, when he returned
for his family to Wisconsin. On this property he lived for several years, breaking
up and improving it, and then sold out and purchased another farm south of Canton,
to which he removed. In the spring of 1886 he disposed of the latter property, and
then settled permanently in Canton, having accumulated a competence and desiring to
spend his declining years more leisurely. He has not mixed up in politics, except in
exerting his influence in the cause of good government, preferring to spend his
energies in sowing and reaping the sure gains of husbandry. He has, however, taken
an active interest in religions matters and temperance work, and with his wife is a
member of the Presbyterian church, in which he has been an elder for many years. He
has been a supporter of Republican principles since the organization of that party.
Mr. Martin also served as a soldier in the late Civil war for nearly nine months,
being a member of the Forty-sixth Wisconsin regiment, infantry, company I.

The lady who presides so graciously over the home of our subject became his bride
November i6; 1843, the ceremony occurring in Ashland county, Ohio. She bore the
maiden name of Eliza Stone, and was the daughter of George Stone, who was a farmer.
Mr. Stone removed to Wisconsin from Ohio with his wife, and afterwards to Iowa,
where Mrs. Stone received injuries in a 'cyclone, which resulted in her death. He
also passed to his reward beyond the dark river in that state. Mrs. Martin was born
in Mifflin county, Pa., November 20, 1823, and her happy wedded life with our
subject has only been clouded by the death of four of the eleven children born to
their union. The living are: George W., Nancy E., Thomas J., Mary Edna, Luther V.,
Milton M. and Clara J., and those deceased bore the names of Sarah E., Martha J.,
Frank B. 	and William C.


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