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ISRAEL MARTIN. Perhaps there is no one mentioned in this book who
has traveled more extensively than the gentleman whose
name appears at the head of this sketch. He was for several years associated with a surveying party and traveled extensively in California, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado,
Utah and Montana. Three years thus spent in this
romantic and interesting country gave him a knowledge of
the West and North-west possessed only by the few, and
when three more years of travel through the South are
added to this one may form an idea of his travels. It is
important to this statement as well as interesting to remark
that Mr. Martin did the greater part of his traveling on
foot. He was born in Delaware county, Indiana, September 2, 1845, and at the age of five years went with his
parents to Washington, Iowa, where he worked on a farm
until the breaking out of the war. On the 12th of July,
1862, he enlisted in Company I, 18th Iowa Volunteers,
and served in the South-west Department. He participated
in the battles of Pea Ridge and Springfield, Missouri;
siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi; Jenkin’s Ferry and
Prairie Grove, Arkansas, and others. He was discharged
at Davenport, Iowa, July 20, 1865. In 1871 Mr. Martin came back to Delaware county, where he was united in
marriage to Mary M. Brown on the 2d of November of
that year. The following are the names of the children
born of this marriage: David V., Katy, Margureta and
Lillie M. In 1877 Mr. Martin moved to Anderson, Indi-
ana, where he has resided ever since. He joined the
1.0.0. F. at Wheeling, Indiana, in 1871 and belongs to
Major May Post, G. A. R., No. 244 at Anderson. His
estimable wife, Mrs. Martin, was born in Centerville, Indiana, August 29, 1848.
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