James L. Martin
James L. Martin was born in Mt. Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa,
May 25th 1866. He attended the public schools in his native town
until he arrived at the age of twelve when he entered Howe's
Academy, a noted institution of south-eastern Iowa and finished
the prescribed course in three years, graduating in 1882, being
especially proficient in English and the Latin language. He
taught school three years and then entered the Iowa Western
University until the summer of 1892. In the fall of 1892 he
abandoned the profession of teaching and entered the law
department of the State University of Iowa and took a course of
law graduating with honors in June 1894 and receiving the degree
of L. L. B. bachelor of laws and was admitted to practice in the
state and federal courts. In August of the same year he opened a
law office in Carroll and is considered one of the most
progressive members of the Carroll county bar. In politics he is
a republican and an ardent admirer of President McKinley having
gone in St. Louis to see him nominated. |
James L. Martin |
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