Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . and died in 1852. She rearedbut two of her eight children. Her son Myron,who was born in 1821, was for some years a first-class pilot on the Missouri River and its tributaries,and later was proprietor of Martins Landing andagent there. He died in 1879 at the age of fifty-eight years. Our subject eleven years old when his fa-ther died, and in 1845 he came to Calhoun Countywith his mother to reside with his uncle MelantlionMartin, proprietor of the landing that bears hisname. He continued with his mother and brother
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . and died in 1852. She rearedbut two of her eight children. Her son Myron,who was born in 1821, was for some years a first-class pilot on the Missouri River and its tributaries,and later was proprietor of Martins Landing andagent there. He died in 1879 at the age of fifty-eight years. Our subject eleven years old when his fa-ther died, and in 1845 he came to Calhoun Countywith his mother to reside with his uncle MelantlionMartin, proprietor of the landing that bears hisname. He continued with his mother and brothertwo years and then went to Council Bluffs, wlierehe was employed at various kinds of work the en-suing two years. Returning to Calhoun County,he engaged in chopping, teaming and other workuntil he was nineteen years old, when he joined hisbrother Myron who was then pilot on the steamerNiagara to learn that vocation of him, and atthat time he became a citizen of St. Louis. lie re-mained on the Niagara eight months and thenhaving become an expert pilot, he was engaged in r. RESlDEr^CE OF PEITER 5NYD ERS , SEIC .-^i. RICHW00D5 PRECT. CALHOUN
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