Biography of John Martin, pages 773 / 774.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Martin, section 23, Smithfield Township, was born in York County, Pa., 
in 1822.  When he was fourteen years of age his parents moved to Ohio and in 
1841 he came to De Kalb County, Ind.  He was married in 1845 to Almira Cole, 
a native of Erie County, Ohio, born in 1836.  Mrs. Martins’ father died when 
she was a child, and her mother subsequently married Isaac B. Smith, and May 
27, 1936, they came to De Kalb County, Ind.  The family afterward moved to 
Missouri, where Mrs. Martins’ mother died.  Mr. Smith and his two eldest 
children, a son and a daughter, are living in Missouri.  His youngest son, 
Isaac B., Jr., died while a soldier in the war of the Rebellion.  When Mr. 
Martin came to De Kalb County, forty-nine years ago, Indians were more 
numerous than white men, and wild game of all kinds were in abundance.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Martin have had two children---Phoebe, wife of Franklin Hamman, and 
a daughter deceased.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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