Portrait and biographical album of Marshall County, Kansas : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the Presidents of the United States . $5IIE tenth Governor of Kansaswas born March 10, 1839, atBrownsville, Pa., and in Insearly days, after an ordinaryeducation, learned the prin-ters trade. In 1857 he wentto Pittsburgh, and was em-ployed in the office of the Commt r-cial Journal, and early in Octoberof that .year he emigrated toKansas and l
Portrait and biographical album of Marshall County, Kansas : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the Presidents of the United States . $5IIE tenth Governor of Kansaswas born March 10, 1839, atBrownsville, Pa., and in Insearly days, after an ordinaryeducation, learned the prin-ters trade. In 1857 he wentto Pittsburgh, and was em-ployed in the office of the Commt r-cial Journal, and early in Octoberof that .year he emigrated toKansas and located in purchased the office of theSquatter Sovereign in February,1 858, and changed its name to theFreemans Champion, and on the20th of the month commenced hiseditorial career in this State, bythe issue of the first number of the paper which hehas since been identified with. He was always astanch free-State man, and an earnest and ardentRepublican, being among the organizers of thatgrand old party in his native State. He was Sec-retary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention,and was elected State Senator before he was of the summer of 1861 Mr. Martin assistedin organizing the 8th Kansas Infantry, of which hewas appointed Lieutenant Colonel. The regimentser
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