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Surnames: Martz, Keller & Dinnius
Classification: Biography
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"History of Huntington County, Indiana"1914 By Frank S. Bash pg. 721-22
Cornelius Martz. On a finely improved estate of one hundred and twenty acres in section
nine of Jackson township, Cornelius Martz is most successfully engaged in diversified
agriculture, and the raising of high-grade stock. He has lived in Jackson township during
the entire period of his life, and commands the confidence and esteem of all who have
known him from earliest youth.
His birth occurred in Jackson township, April 1, 1852, a son of John and Margaret
(Keller) Martz. His father was a native of Pennsylvania. His mother claimed Ohio as her
birthplace. The parents were married in Ohio, and from that state came out to Indiana, and
on the twenty-second of May, 1851, located in Jackson township of Huntington county. In
the following year was born their son, Cornelius, and the parents continued to make that
their home until they were called from earth’s activities by death. There were nine
children, and four are living at the present writing, as follows: Sarah A., widow of
Daniel Goodman of Michigan; John H. Martz, a resident of Whitley county; Clara H., wife of
John M. Fisher of Warren, Ohio; and Cornelius.
Cornelius Martz grew up on the old farm, had a common schooling, and lived at home until
he was twenty-two years of age. Then in order to get properly started in the world, his
father gave him twenty-five acres of land. With that as his capital he was united in
marriage on April 19, 1874, with Miss Margaret Dinnius. She was the daughter of Josiah
Dinnius, and was born and reared in Jackson township. To their marriage were born four
children, as follows: Melvin H., unmarried; Early, who is married and lives in the state
of Virginia; Edith, wife of Elmer E. Kreusen; Laura, who lives at home with her parents.
The family worship in the English Lutheran church, and in politics Mr. Martz is a
republican. As the basis of his farming activities he owns one hundred and twenty acres,
three and a half miles northwest of Roanoke. He has used this to good advantage in
creating sufficient wealth for his own means, and in providing liberally for the education
of his children and in seeing!
them properly started in the world.