- JOHN JAMES MARTIN, Beloit, Rock County, is a successful grocer
in that city, and his
- establishment at No. 216 State street is the center of a
profitable and growing patronage. The proprietor is a man who
knows the value of a good name in the business world, and by
every possible means strives to please and retain his custom.
He handles honest goods, makes reasonable profit, and is widely
known as an honorable and reliable grocer.
- Mr. MARTIN was born in the town of Beloit, Rock County, five
miles northwest of the city, June
- 3, 1849, and is a son of James and Lucy (POLLARD) MARTIN,
natives of County Derry and County Longford, Ireland, respectively.
They were the parents of six children, four of whom are now
living, John James, of Beloit; Robert, Joseph and Sarah J. are
also residents of this city. The father was a farmer and came
to this country many years ago. He made his first appearance
in Wisconsin in 1847. He took up government land, and bought
other land in the town of Rock, until he owned about 160 acres.
On this farm he reared his family, and here he died in 1858,
when forty-eight years old. His wife was the came age at her
death in July, 1862. He was a Presbyterian, and she an Episcopalian.
His father died in Ireland, and was the father of Robert Pollard,
who came to this country in 1861, and lived on his own farm in
Afton, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was the
father of seven children, and died when he was seventy-eight.
- John James MARTIN was reared on his father's farm, and attended
the district school. He was
- married in November, 1881, to Mrs. Eliza McCREA, widow of
William McCREA, and daughter of John and Ann (HENRY) CLINCHY.
Mr. and Mrs. MARTIN are the parents of one child, Lilly May,
a graduate of the high school, and now attending Beloit College.
Mrs. MARTIN was the mother of two children by Mr. McCREA, Anna
Bell and Robert H. McCREA. Anna Bell is now Mrs. JACKSON. Mr.
MARTIN belongs to the Morning Star Lodge, No. 10, A.F. &
A.M. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, and the Fraternal
Alliance, No. 15. He is a Republican. He has lived in Beloit
since the month of December, 1878, and for about twelve years
he has been engaged in the grocery business with very satisfactory
results. Mr. MARTIN has been honored by the people of his ward
with election as their representative in the common council for
the last five years. He has a pleasant and attractive home at
No. 522 Pleasant street.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 790-791.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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