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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          JOHN and MATHEW MARTIN settled upon section 10, in the fall of
       1860, where MATHEW is still living.
          MATTHEW W. MARTIN was born in Braxton county, West Virginia,
       January 14, 1842. His father emigrated to Miami county, Ohio, when
       MATTHEW was young, and in the fall of 1852, moved to McHenry county,
       Illinois. His occupation was farming. In 1859, he removed with his
       family to Ray county, Missouri, where he bought a farm and intended
       to remain, but on the breaking out of the Rebellion, being of pro-
       nounced Union sentiments, he was obliged to leave, and was glad to
       get away. His loss by this compulsory removal, amounted to six
       thousand dollars. He went back to McHenry county, Illinois, and died
       there in 1863. His wife, BARBARA MARTIN, died the same year. MATTHEW
       W. MARTIN enlisted, September 4, 1862, in company H, Ninety-fifth
       Illinois Infantry. His regiment was a part of the Sixteenth Army
       Corps, commanded by GENERAL A. J. SMITH in the Red river campaign.
       He took part in the campaign and siege of Vicksburg and battle of
       Nashville, when GENERAL THOMAS routed HOOD'S army. Also the battles
       at Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort at Mobile. He was honorably
       discharged August 17, 1865, and returned to McHenry county. The
       following fall he settled in Marshall county, Iowa, where he
       remained three years, then came to Cass county and bought, in
       partnership with his brother, JOHN MARTIN, one hundred and twenty
       acres in section 10, Bear Grove.  MR. MARTIN was married in this
       town, in 1870, to HELEN M. FARMER, a native of Indiana, born in
       1855. Her parents, WILLIAM and F. FARMER, are both living with Mr.
       and Mrs. MARTIN. They occupy a farm of eighty acres in section 16.
       Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. MARTIN - HARRY, ETHEL,
       ROY and EARL.

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