1891 Biography - E. D. Martin

E. D. MARTIN, BALDWIN. -- E. D. Martin is a native of Canada, born March 15, 1841. He is the son of John and Marceline (Lucier) Martin, both natives of Canada, who afterward emigrated to the United States, locating in Illinois.

E. D. Martin received his preparatory education in the public schools of Illinois and afterward entered St. Anne's College, where he completed his course of mental discipline. After leaving college he entered the mercantile business as a clerk. After having served in that capacity for two years; the war broke out, and as a patriotic soldier he enlisted in the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteers, serving throughout the whole of the struggle. After the war he returned to his home and then removed to Iowa, where he married Miss Fannie Harper, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel Harper, one of the early settlers of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Martin became the parents of four children, viz.: Edward S., Carrie, Marceline, Johnnie. In 1878 they moved to Louisiana, locating at Baldwin, where Mr. Martin became the overseer of a plantation in this State. He was for eight years engaged in that capacity, and is now engaged in the mercantile business at Baldwin. He commenced business with a capital of about $1000, and has steadily increased his business until now he does a large business and carries a stock of $13,000, and his annual sales is $25,000.

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Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, pages 375-376.

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