Farmer.
Born at Millbank, Ontario on 23 January 1866, one of eight children of Thomas C. Martin and Jane Bradley, he quit school at the age of 15 to work in flax mills until 1882 when he moved to Manitoba. He worked for five years for the Hudson’s Bay Company, leaving to take up farming 480 acres in Township 18, Range 24 near Shoal Lake. He grew grain and raised cattle, horses, and swine. He was a member of the Masons (Neepawa Lodge), Independent Order of Foresters, Odd Fellows, Loyal Orange Lodge, and Grain Growers Association. He died in late 1955 and was buried in the Strathclair Cemetery.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
Obituary, Hamilton Spectator, 5 December 1955, page 8.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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