"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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CHRISTOPHER R. MARTIN, was born January 8, 1827 in Northampton County,
North Carolina, and is the eighth of the eleven children of Etheldred
and Rebecca (Watkins) Martin, natives of Virginia and of English
extraction. They emigrated from Kentucky to Indiana at an early day and
settled near Cloverdale, Putnam County, where they afterward died. 
Christopher passed his early life on the farm, attending school some
time in the winter, where he remained until he attained his majority.
December, 1861, he married Elizabeth McDowell, a union which gave being
to three children. Mr. Martin in 1863 engaged in mercantile business at
Cloverdale, and continued successfully thereafter for two years; he
then engaged in farming, which he has since followed. Notwithstanding
many reverses of fortune and impediments to progress, Mr. Martin has 
acquired a comfortable home and a good farm of 120 acres. He is a 
Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic fraternity, an upright
man and a respected citizen.

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