Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 643
JAMES W. MARTIN

James W. MARTIN, liveryman at Woodbine, is a native of Harrison County, and was born in St. John's Township April 14, 1863, an remained on his father's farm until 1884, when he bought a farm in Lincoln Township, the same being a hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land, on section 8. He improved this land, and lived upon it for four years at the end of which time he traded it for a livery business at Woodbine, which he is still conduction. His barn is 22x100 feet with an annex 33x50 feet.

Our subject was married March 20, 1884, to Julia LEGAN, in St. John's Township, who was born December 25, 1864, in Indiana, and accompanied her parents, when she was thirteen years of age, to Harrison County, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. Mr. and Mrs. MARTIN are the parents of vie children--Vernia, Lester, Pearl and Baby twins, the latter dying in infancy; their last born was Floyd.

Politically Mr. MARTIN exercises his right of franchise by voting with the Republican party.

It should be added in this connection that our subject's father was William MARTIN, and that he died in the United States service.

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