The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . lked behind hislittle primitive plow with its wooden moldboard, using rope traces to guide the was also a wooden bridle and a ropehead-stall. The reap hook and cradle wereused in the harvest fields and corn wasdropped by hand, Mrs. Johnston in her earlydays frecpiently dropping corn for her fa-ther in the fields. Mr. Johnston hascradled grain many days for seventv-fivecents per day. He is one of the honoredpioneers of the county and there is littleconcerning the primitive development of thissection of the state that is not fam
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . lked behind hislittle primitive plow with its wooden moldboard, using rope traces to guide the was also a wooden bridle and a ropehead-stall. The reap hook and cradle wereused in the harvest fields and corn wasdropped by hand, Mrs. Johnston in her earlydays frecpiently dropping corn for her fa-ther in the fields. Mr. Johnston hascradled grain many days for seventv-fivecents per day. He is one of the honoredpioneers of the county and there is littleconcerning the primitive development of thissection of the state that is not familiar tohim. His wife was born only a mile and aquarter north and a half mile cast of herpresent home. By her she hasbecome the mother of two children, butMatilda J. is now deceased. The son. JohnW., is a resident of Oakwood daughter was the wife of David Youngand at her death left a daughter, Mary F„Young, who became the wife of WilliamVan Allen, a son of John Van Allen and ofthis marriage there is a daughter, GraceVan EDWIN MARTIN. THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 543 It was on the 5th of March, 1857. tliatMy. and Mrs. Johnston removed to the farmupon which they are now residing on sectionI, Oakwood township, where he owns tw(.hundred and twenty-five acres of tlie bestimproved land of Yermihon county, alltiled and under a high state of is a Republican in his political \-ie\\s andhas served as school director antl path-master. Both he and his wife belong tothe Methodist Episcopal church and areearnest Christian people, respected by all\\ho know them. EDWIN }.IARTIN. solved .to make the most of his opportunitiesand work his way upward. Early in lifehe engaged in clerking in a mercantile es-tablishmait, and afterward in a largegrocer house. In 1870 he carried out hischerished plan of coming to America, forthe reports which he had heard concerningthis country led him to believe that betterbusiness opportunities were here aftVirded,nor was he
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