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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published by John M. Gresham & Co. in 1891.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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GEORGE LE ROY MARTIN, the justice of the peace at Cherry Creek and a thriving merchant, doing business at the same place, a son of George W. and Sophronia (Thompson) Martin, was born, in the town of Arkwright, Chautauqua county, New York, December 22, 1851. George W. Martin was born in the town of Arkwright, March 20, 1824 and is a son of Isaiah Martin. He was a farmer by occupation, married Sophronia Thompson, and had the following children: Edgar W., born May 10, 1847, married Cynthia Waite of Cherry Creek, is a farmer and has two daughters; Charles W., born November 22, 1849, married Addie Brown, of this town, is a merchant and has two daughters; George L.; Ella S., born April 26, 1854, married Dr. Charles A. Beebe, a practicing physician, living at Marshall, Wisconsin, and has two sons; Dewrell C., born April 11, 1856, is a cheese maker in this town, married Cora Farnham, of Hamlet and has one son and two daughters; James E., born in October, 1858, is a butcher, married Effie Fluker and has one daughter; Annie S., born October 26, 1860, and resides in Arkwright with her mother; Orlin D., born March 8, 1863 (dead); Frank E., born April 21, 1865, is a butcher in Villanova and married Dolly King of Cherry Creek; Hattie E., born April 26, 1867, married Dewitt C. Erwin a farmer of Cherry Creek; and Otis J., born May 14, 1873, is at home in Arkwright.

George Le Roy Martin was educated at the graded schools at Rushville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where he entered business, remained seven years and then removed to State Line, McKean county, Pa., where he staid five years and then came to Cherry Creek and opened his business in October of 1883, since which he has carried a good stock of groceries, and being a careful business man and a popular gentleman, is doing probably the most thriving business in town. In politics he is a republican and three years ago was elected town clerk, a position which he still retains. He is a member of the Methodist church and belongs to Cherry Creek Lodge, No. 463, I. O. O. F., Pocahontas Tent, No. 101, K. of M., and the Equitable Aid Union.

He married Carrie Rice, a daughter of A. J. and Carrie Rice, of Riceville, Pa., and has a son Earl R., and a daughter Edith M.

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This family biography is one of 658 biographies included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published in 1891. 

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