My Genealogy Hound

JAMES A. MARTIN, A. B., M. D., a prominent physician of Minden, Kearney county, is a native of Scotland and was born November 8, 1853. He is a son of William and Ellen (Young) Martin, both natives also of Scotland and descendants of Scotch stock from time immemorial. His father was a physician, a graduate of the best schools of his native country. He came to America in 1859, and after a short residence in St. Louis settled in Madison county, Ill., where he practiced his profession till his death, which occurred March 22, 1883. The subject of this notice, accompanying his mother, came to the United States in 1867, joining the husband and father at that date. Young Martin was educated at Lincoln, Ill., receiving both his preliminary and collegiate course there, graduating from the Lincoln University in 1878. He read medicine with his father and graduated from the American Medical College at St. Louis, February 28, 1884. The following April he came to Nebraska and located at Minden, where he at once entered upon the practice of his profession. February 16, 1887, he married Miss Joe Healy, of Richmond, Va., a lady who by her birth and training is eminently fitted to bear him the companionship he sought with her hand.

Dr. Martin is a trained physician, a ripe scholar for his years, and a pleasant gentleman. He devotes himself exclusively to the practice of medicine, believing in the homely old saying that “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”