King County WA Archives Biographies.....Martin, Hubert H. June 17, 1890 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 885 - 886
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HUBERT H. MARTIN, manager for Oregon of the Martin General Insurance 
Agency, with offices in the Pittock block, Portland, is one of the city's able 
and successful business men and, under his capable supervision, the well known 
concern which he represents has built up an extensive business in this state. 
Mr. Martin was born at McMinnsville, Oregon, on the 17th of June, 1890, and is 
a son of F. J. and Frances Isabel (Johnson) Martin, the former a native of 
Indiana and the latter of Yamhill county, Oregon. His father received a good 
public school education and in 1875 came to Oregon, locating at McMinnville, 
where he engaged in the hardware business until 1893, when he conceived the 
idea of mutual fire insurance, carried at cost, and organized the Oregon Fire 
Relief Association. He served as secretary of that organization for a number 
of years, but finally withdrew from it. During the subsequent years he has 
become one of the leading insurance men of the west and is actively and 
officially identified with some of the most prominent insurance organizations 
of this country. In 1901 he moved to Seattle, Washington, and organized the 
Northwest Mutual Fire Association, which has become the largest company in the 
United States doing a general fire insurance business. He served a number of 
years as secretary of the company and was then made president, which relation 
he still sustains. He also organized the Martin General Agency, of which he is 
president and which has also become a very successful concern. He is president 
of the Northwest Casualty Company, which he organized in 1928; is president of 
the Mutual Union Insurance Company, which he organized in 1917, and is 
president of the United States Inter-Insurance Association, of which he was 
the organizer. He is nationally known in insurance circles, is chairman of the 
board of the Improved Risk Mutual Association of New York city and is 
president of the Federation of Mutual Insurance Companies, a national 
organization. He introduced from England into this country the aero automatic 
fire alarm, and is president of the Rockwood Sprinkler Company, of Seattle. He 
has been active and prominent in various moves to improve fire risks and is 
regarded as an authority on that subject. He is an active member of the 
Baptist church and his favorite form of recreation is golf. His wife is a 
daughter of Dr. Horatio V. Johnson, a physician, who came across the plains to 
Oregon in 1852. He acquired extensive mining interests, and took up a donation 
land claim near where now stands the city of Newburg, Oregon. He served on the 
board of education and was the founder of the Masonic lodge at Tillamook.

     Hubert H. Martin received his early education in the public schools and 
entered Denison College, at Granville, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 
1913. He then entered the insurance business with his father in Seattle, 
serving as secretary and treasurer of the Aero Alarm Company until 1922, when 
he came to Portland as manager for Oregon of the Martin General Agency, of 
which he is also a director. In addition to the office at Portland, there are 
branch offices at Eugene, Salem, and Klamath Falls. Mr. Martin is devoting his 
attention closely to the company's interests in this state and has proven a 
man of ripe judgment, energetic methods and high ideals, so that he is well 
established in public confidence.

     In 1913 Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Miss Esther Carney, of New 
York, and they are the parents of two children, Hubert Frank, now fourteen 
years of age, who is a student in the Lakeside School for Boys, at Seattle, 
and Lorinda Lee, aged eight years. The republican party receives Mr. Martin's 
support, as does every movement or measure for the advancement of the public 
welfare. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks, the American Legion, the Sigma Chi fraternity, of which he has 
been praetor since 1925, the Alderwood Country Club and the Portland Chamber 
of Commerce. He is a veteran of the World war, for which he enlisted in the 
United States Marine Corps, but was not ordered overseas. He is regarded as a 
man of sound and dependable qualities, commanding the genuine esteem of all 
who have come in contact with him, while in social circles he enjoys marked 
popularity, due to his genial and friendly manner.

     M. D. L. Rhodes, who is secretary of the Northwest Mutual Fire 
Association and of the Martin General Agency, is a native of Yamhill county 
and was associated with F. J. Martin in the organization of these companies.

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