ISAAC J. MARTIN

 

     Isaac J. Martin may be classed among the many successful farmers of Cedar County, for he is the owner of 280 acres of fertile land about four and a half-miles southeast of the county seat, of which 175 are under cultivation.  He was born in Overton County, Tenn., April 21, 1852, and is the third of nine children, eight living, born to the marriage of Obadiah Martin and Anna Johnson, who were also Tennesseans, born in 1807 and 1821, respectively.  The father was of Irish-Welsh descent, a farmer by occupation and for a number of years was justice of the peace and held the office of surveyor of Overton County, Tenn., in which State he died in 1873.  His parents, Mynad and Betty Martin, also died in that State.  The boyhood days of Isaac J. Martin were spent in tilling the soil and attending the common schools, and in 1878 he was married in Cedar County to Miss Lucretia Allen, a native of that county, and a daughter of William R. Allen, whose sketch appears in this volume.  Mr. Martin cast his first vote for U.S. Grant for the presidency, but is now a member of the Union Labor party.  He and wife are members of the Christian Church.

From the History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889, p. 758

 

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