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Surnames: Martz Beaver Keller Kenrich Smith Goodman Fisher
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John Martz, retired farmer, is a native of Pennsylvania, and the fourth of a family of
eleven children, six sons and five daughters, born of John and Elizabeth (Beaver) Martz.
The paternal grandfather was a native of Switzerland, and on the mother’s side he is
descended from German ancestry. John Martz was born in Pennsylvania, and by occupation
was a blacksmith. In 1829 he settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, where he made a good home
and reared his children to manhood and womanhood. He died September, 1866, aged
seventy-nine years. His wife preceded him to the grave, departing this life in 1840, at
the age of fifty-one years. John Martz was born August 26, 1815, and at the age of
fourteen accompanied his parents to Trumbull County, Ohio, where the years of his youth
and early manhood were passed. His education was limited to the subscription schools of
that day, and while still a boy he began the blacksmithing trade with his father, and soon
became a skillful w!
orkman. February 22, 1840, he married Miss Margaret Keller, of Columbiana County, Ohio,
daughter of John and Catherine (Kenrich) Keller. Shortly after marriage, Mr. Martz
abandoned his trade and engaged in agricultural pursuits, farming for a few years as a
renter, and subsequently, 1851, purchased the land years as a renter, and subsequently,
1851, purchased the land upon which he now lives in Jackson Township, Huntington Co. His
farm and improvements will compare favorably with any other place in the community, and in
point of thrift and all that goes to make up substantial manhood, Mr. Martz stands among
the first in the township. He and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and in
politics he is an ardent supporter of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Martz have had
nine children whose names are as follows, to-wit: Daniel, deceased; Catherine, wife of
Alexander Smith; Sarah, wife of Daniel Goodman; John H., Cornelius, Aaron, Clara H., wife
of John Fisher; Mary!
A. and Elizabeth, deceased.
History of Huntington County, Indiana. (Brant & Fuller: Chicago, IL) 1887.
Biographical Sketches of Jackson Township, page 657 and 658.