Peter Martin, p. 730

PETER MARTIN, a prominent and enterprising farmer of Chartiers township, is a native of the same, having been born February 6, 1823, on his father's farm in this county. He is a grandson of Peter Martin, who was born in Scotland, and at an early day came here and settled in Washington county, Penn., where he made a permanent home. His son Samuel was born on the farm in South Strabane township, and there grew to manhood. He was married to Jane White, a resident of North Strabane township, and the young couple settled, about 1816, in Chartiers township, this county, where they made a permanent home. The following children were born to their union: Mary (Mrs. Robert Morgan, who died in 1888), Eleanor (deceased wife of John Fergus), Peter, Sarah, Jane (married to John Morgan, of Chartiers township), and Ann Elizabeth (wife of David E. McNary, of Cross Creek township). Mr. Martin was a farmer, and was always prominently identified with the interests of the community. His wife died in 1836, and he passed to his last resting place in 1864.

Peter Martin passed his boyhood on the home farm, where, together with the neighboring urchins, he attended the country school. On November 10, 1859, he was married to Mary A., daughter of David and Margaret (Morrison) Watson. Miss Watson was of Scotch descent, her great-grandfather, Gavin Morrison, having come from Scotland in 1773, with his family of three sons. Gavin Morrison died in Washington county in 1782, and the elder son, James, grandfather of Mrs. Martin, settled on the land, it having been surveyed for him in 1784. The Morrison family trace their lineage to this ancestor, who died in 1813. David Watson married Margaret Morrison. He died many years ago, leaving a family of children, among whom was Mary (Mrs. Martin). His wife, died in 1875, aged eighty years and sixteen days.

After his marriage Peter Martin settled on his present home in Chartiers township, a well-cultivated, productive farm of 142 acres, with two good gas wells on the place. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have had four children: Anna M., Eva Jane (Mrs. John R. Jamison, of Chartiers township), Lizzie B., and George C. Mr. Martin has a good grade of stock, and is a successful business man. He is not an active politician, but casts his ballot with the Republican party. Both Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Cross Roads United Presbyterian Church.

Text taken from page 730 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed March 1997 by Karen Souhrada of Pittsford, NY as part of the Beers Project.
Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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