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MARTIN A. COURTS, P. O. Georgetown, a prominent farmer of Franklin Township, was born in Scott Township, this county, May 13, 1830. His father, George Courts, was a native of Ohio, and a farmer by occupation. He located in Scott Township at an early day, and there resided till his death a few years later. His death occurred about fifty years ago. Mr. Courts’ mother was Catherine Hiler, a native of Ohio, and mostly reared in Brown County. She departed this life about twenty years ago. The subject of this notice was reared on the home farm, receiving a good common school education. He was reared by his mother till eighteen years of age, and then commenced active life by working on neighboring farms by the month till twenty-two years of age. He then farmed for himself, in Scott Township, two years. He then removed to his present farm in Franklin Township, where he owns about 400 acres of land, mostly under cultivation. When twenty-seven years of age, Mr. Courts was united in marriage to Elizabeth Dunn, a native of Washington Township, and a daughter of James Dunn, a prominent farmer and land-holder of Brown County. They have six children — James H. (who married Lottie Miller), George E. (at home), Josephine (wife of Stephen A. Kendall, a farmer of Franklin Township), Ormund P., Arminda and Bertie Edna. Mr. and Mrs. Courts are members of the Christian Union Church, on the West Fork of Straight Creek. Mr. Courts is a well-known citizen of this township, and well respected.