JACOB T. MARTIN
Jacob T. Martin was born in Preston county, West Virginia, March 3, 1844. He is a son of Daniel T. and Elizabeth Martin. His mother died when he was an infant. His father is now living in his native county. Jacob T. Martin, when seventeen years of age, enlisted in Company A, of the Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, September 4, 1861. He joined the army of the Potomac and took part in McClellan's campaign against Richmond, second battle of Bull Run, battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was under command of General Burnside at Fredericksburg, in Hooker's battle of Chancellorsville, the three days battle of Gettysburg, the campaign of Grant and the siege of Peterburg. At the battle of Hatch's Run, he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was confined three months and ten days, at Richmond, Virginia, was then exchanged and returned to the regiment. He veteranized in January, 1864, while in camp at Stevenburg, Virginia. He was honorably discharged, June 29, 1865. He was married March 5, 1865, to Abbie Pringey, also a native of West Virginia, born June 20, 1848. In April, 1867, Mr. Martin removed to Iowa, and lived two years in Muscatine and Cedar counties. He came to Cass county in October 1869, and located in Noble township, where he bought a farm on section 12. He afterwards sold this place and bought the fine farm of two hundred and forty acres, which he now owns and occupies. It is located in section 28, of Bear Grove. He purchased the place of George Carter, but it was improved by Park Lewis and brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have six children--Laura A., born in October 1866, now the wife of Harvey Cassill; Maggie E., born in August 1868; Frederick S., born in December 1871; Mattie M., born in June 1874; Nellie G., born in August 1877, and Caddie B., born in November, 1879.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 714-715.
