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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Grundy County, Illinois
Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers
Lakeside Building,
1881
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Greenfield Twp. -
A. S. MARTIN, agricultural implements,
Gardner, was born Oct. 4, 1836, in Ohio, is a son of Peter and
Jane A. (Wells) Martin, natives of New York and Vermont,
respectively; they were the parents of seven children - J. J.,
Maria, N. W., A. S., Catharine, Abigail and
Isabella; the parents emigrated from Ohio to Beloit, Wis., in
1848, and thence to Green Bay, where they are living. Mr.
Martin attended school and farmed during his younger days; at
the age of fifteen, he was employed with his parents in a hotel at
Kaukauna, Wis., until twenty years old, when he let for other parts
of the State, for a short time, and then attended school at Aurora,
Ill., afterward teaching until 1862, when he enlisted in Company D,
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry; was
Sergeant, and served till the close. He then resumed teaching,
and added real estate at Gardner. In 1875, he entered into the
grocery and farming implement business. In 1879, he disposed
of the grocery department and has since continued handling all kinds
of farm implements at a small profit on the articles, yet
aggregating a large amount of gain. He was married, in 1866,
to Julia A. Petit, a native of New York, the result of this
union being three children, two of whom survive - B. A. and
L. A. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church.
He votes the Republican ticket.
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois - Chicago: O. L.
Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Lakeside Bldg., Publ. 1881 -
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