Washington

MARTIN, William

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 259

William MARTIN, late of Plainfield [Washington County, Vermont], was born in 
the town of Marshfield [Washington County, Vermont], son of William and 
Sabrina (AXTELL) MARTIN. His grandfather, Jesse MARTIN, was a veteran of 
Bunker Hill, and his father, Hon. William MARTIN, was a man of mark, who 
represented Marshfield for thirteen years in the Legislature, was colonel of 
a cavalry regiment, and associate judge of the county court. William MARTIN 
passed through the usual experience in his boyhood days, receiving his 
education in the common schools. The rough and constant labor of the farm 
developed his energy and endowed him with uncommon physical strength and 
endurance. He was always a prodigious worker, and for a time was a 
manufacturer and merchant, but for many years devoted his chief attention to 
the occupation of his youth. He is a large owner of real estate, possessing 
at the time of his death several extensive farms in this and neighboring 
towns, and he was also the proprietor of a large saw mill, which is carried 
on by his sons.

Mr. MARTIN was an enthusiastic adherent of the dominant party in the state 
[Republican], and held many public offices; represented Marshall in the 
Legislature. Was strongly in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the Civil 
War. On 11 January 1838 the subject of this sketch [William MARTIN] was 
wedded to [Miss?] Vienna L. PERRIN, by whom he has had eight children: Julia 
S. (Mrs. Walter PAGE, deceased); William E., killed at Petersburg, Virginia; 
Curtis A., Cassius L., Charles P., Edwin B., Harry H., and Benjamin F. His 
[William MARTIN's] son, William E. MARTIN, served as second lieutenant in 
Company C, Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, under the command of Col. 
F. V. RANDALL; was promoted to first lieutenant before that regiment was 
mustered out; then enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment, and was killed at 
the battle of Petersburg Mine, 30 July 1864; in honor of his memory the 
Plainfield organization of the Grand Army of the Republic was named the 
William E. Martin Post.

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