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ALEXANDER MARTIN, farmer, P. O. Feesburg. The parents of this gentleman were George and Mary (Myers) Martin, both natives of Virginia, where they married. In 1823, they, with a family of six children, emigrated to Augusta, Ky., and in 1824, settled in Brown County, on Bullskin, near Clark’s Mill. Eighteen months subsequent they bought a farm near Feesburg; living in this vicinity until about 1872, when he died, aged about eighty-two years. His wife followed in two years. Their family consisted of twelve children, of whom four daughters and two sons are now living. Alexander, the fourth eldest, was born in Virginia in 1817, and since 1824 has been a resident of Brown County, Ohio, save one year. He received a common school education in Brown County, giving his time to his father during his minority — part of the time on the River, boating to New Orleans. To this pursuit he gave some time after his marriage, in 1846, with Sarah, daughter of Bazel Norris, who is mentioned in the pioneer department. She was born in Lewis Township, Brown County, Ohio, in 1827. The children of this union are nine, all now living. Mr. Martin owns twenty-two and three-quarter acres of land in R. Lawson’s Survey, No. 1716. He and wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Eden.