Bio: Martin, William (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 214.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WILLIAM MARTIN

WILLIAM MARTIN, saloon, Chippewa Falls, came to Wisconsin in 1859, and located at Wolf River. Came to Chippewa Falls in 1860. Was clerk in dry goods store for two years. In 1862 opened a saloon; sold out in 1864, and went to Oil Regions in Pennsylvania, and ran a hotel there up to 1866; then returned to Chippewa Falls. In 1870 he went into grocery business in partnership with Henry Cronk; was in that business five years—the last two years alone. Afterwards employed in woods for two years, scaling logs, etc., and has been in his present business since. Was born in New York, April 6, 1839. Married there Sept. 18, 1870, to Jennie Kurd, born in that State. They have one child, Nettie, aged eight years.