BIO: DAVID M. MARTIN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 387-388
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    DAVID M. MARTIN, a substantial farmer of Middlesex township, Cumberland
  county, was born June 22, 1853, in that township, a son of Jacob and Mary
  (Mohler) Martin. He is of Welsh and German extraction.
    
    David Martin, grandfather of David M., was born in Lancaster county, Pa.,
  and there married Fanny Rutt, of West Donegal township. They removed to
  Middlesex township, Cumberland county, where Mrs. Martin died, and in 1836 he
  moved to North Middleton township, dying two years later. His children were as
  follows: Joseph, who died in Franklin county; David, who died at Carlisle;
  Mary, Mrs. Abraham Goodyear, who died at Boiling Springs; Jacob, father of
  David M.; Fanny, Mrs. Daughterty, whodied in Lancaster county; Barbara, Mrs.
  Martin Ebersole, who died in Lancaster county; Levi, who died in the West;
  Angeline, Mrs. Daughterty; and Annie, Mrs. Ebersole, living in Illinois.
    
    Jacob Martin was born Oct. 15, 1821, in Lancaster county, and first
  attended a subscription school conducted by a local teacher in a vacant house
  across the line in Dauphin county. Later, when about thirteen years old, he
  attended the free school in Cumberland county, which was the beginning of the
  great common school system. This, like every innovation, had its opponents in
  those early days, but public sentiment was with the movement and it
  eventually became a great success.
    
    In March, 1846, Jacob Martin married Mary Mohler, daughter of Jacob Mohler,
  and the following children were born to them: William, of Middlesex township;
  Annie, Mrs. Levi Beck, of Cumberland county; Samuel, who went to Chicago,
  where he had the contract for lighting the streets in the days of the use of
  oil, later going to Texas; David M., of this sketch; Sadie, Mrs. Wesley
  Glatfelter, of Middlesex township; Mary, Mrs. Frank Nace, of Middlesex
  township; John, of Lancaster, who married Dora Bombarger; George Washington,
  of this township, who married Susan Ensminger; Ida, Mrs. Harry Bucher, of
  Silver Spring township; and Emerson, of Logansport, Ind., married to Alta
  Batt.
    
    After his marriage Jacob Martin lived in South Middleton township until
  1850, and then removed to Middlesex township and followed cabinet-making,
  carpentering and other occupations until 1856, when he bought his present
  home, on which he has resided ever since. It is one of the most productive in
  the township, noted for its fine vegetables, Mr. Martin being the first farmer
    
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  in this section to raise fruits and vegetables for the Carlisle market. In
  politics Mr. Martin was early a strong Whig, later becoming just as closely
  affiliated with the Republican party. He is one of the venerable and most
  highly considered men of Middlesex township.
    
    David M. Martin was reared in Middlesex township and attended the district
  schools. In the fall of 1872 he became apprenticed to the blacksmith trade,
  with John Buttorf, of Middlesex township, and after serving three years
  remained as Mr. Buttorf's assistant for five years more. In 1880 he opened a
  shop of his own on the Middlesex pike road, in the lower part of the
  township, which proved so good a stand that he remained there for the
  succeeding eighteen years. Mr. Martin was a skilled workman and did all kinds
  of work in his line that drifted his way, nothing in the shape of bolts, bars,
  tires or horseshoeing being beyond his skill. In 1901 he gave up shop work and
  located on his present fine farm of 153 acres, where he carries on general
  farming, meeting with deserved success.
    
    On Nov. 20, 1879, Mr. Martin was united in marriage in Silver Spring
  township with Lizzie Crozier, who was born Oct. 12, 1857, daughter of
  Armstrong and Mary Jane (Updegraff) Crozier, both of whom were born in Perry
  county, Pa., where they died before Mrs. Martin was ten years old. She then
  came to Dickinson township to live with her uncle, William Crozier, who at
  that time kept what was known as the "Stone Tavern," on the Bottom road. She
  remained there, a member of his household, for two years, and then went back
  to Perry county for two years more, and then came to Middlesex township after
  her marriage. A family of nine children has been born to this union, all
  ranking among the most intelligent people of this locality, being well and
  favorably known in church and social circles: Frank A. (a school teacher),
  Charles Edgar (deceased), Raymond Crozier, Chester, James, Cora Myrtle, Ruth
  May, J. Earl, Mary Susannah and Paul W.
    
    In politics Mr. Martin is identified with the Republican party. Mrs. Martin
  is a valued member of the Evangelical Church, which Mr. Martin also attends
  and liberally supports. He is known all over the township and, like his
  father, enjoys the esteem of all who know him, many of his best friends
  having watched his industrious career from boyhood.