The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-05

The families of both Of Mr.. Martins par.
ents have resided In this county since 1S49
and 1850, in the first Of which years his
mothers family moved to the town of Gale
donia, settling on the farm where Mr.. Mar
tin now lives, while in the latter year his
fathers family came to Venice township
from the state of New York. After the
marriage of bis father and mother they came
into possession OF the old Caledonia home
stead and there on June s, 1868, John Y.
Martin was born. With the single excep-
ton of one year he has lived In this town
ship all of his life. And with the exception
of but few years his life has been spent
on the same farm.
When boy he attended the country
school, and later spent part of one year In
the high school at Vernon, and then attend
ed the COrunna high school In the same
class with Hudson Sheldon, and came with
in few weeks of graduation when sickness
compelled him to leave for the balance of
the year. The next year he taught the
Lyle school In Venice and the year follow
ing he spent in general store In Mt. Pleas.
ant, In the spring Of 'S5 he returned to the
home farm which he worked for three
years and then purchased another
farm for himself in the same town
years ago when he sold 1t and purchased
the old homestead. where he has since re-
sided. Mr.. Martin was married in 1890 to
Miss Lillian Holly, daughter of DR.. Holly,
of Vernon.
The boy who had qualified himself to be
a good school teacher and a good clerk and
still believed that farming was little better
than anything else to do was the kind of a
boy who soon found that his fellow farmers
had something else for him to do in connec-
ton with his farm work and from 1888,
when he was endorsed by both parties for
the Office of township treasurer, up 10 the
present time they have managed to find
something which they wished him to do in
addition to his farm work without the
break of a single year. He was reelected
In 1889 and the next year took the census
for the town. In 1891 he was elected JUS
tice of the peace and the next year he was
again chosen town treasurer In 1898 he
was elected supervisor for Caledonia and he
has since held that Office every year up TO
and including the present year. His record
on the board was as satisfactory to his fe-
low supervisors as it has always been to his
fellow farmers in the township and he has
served en- all of the important committees
of that body besides being honored In 1898
by being elected chairman OF the board
During the present year he has been the
the clerks office and has therefore had
| abundant opportunity TO thoroughly famil-
iarize himself with the records In that Office
and that he has done so no one who Is at all
he performs all of his work can doubt for
| all instant. The preparation has been of
the most thorough kind.
John Y. Martin Is still young man but
he has friends IN every part of the county
and the men who have served on the board
OF supervisors with him are among the very
best friends OF all. They know what kind
of service he believes in giving when in a
public Office aud they can unhesitatingly
recommend him TO such OF their neighbors
as have not yet become acquainted with
him. There could not have been made a
better choice by the repub icau convention
aud every republican in Owosso, Corunna,
| didacyi is ratified four weeks from next Tues
day by one OF the biggest majorities on the
ticket.
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