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JOHN FOSTER MARTIN, P. O. Greenville. John Foster Martin was born in Washington Township, Darke Co., in the year 1852; his parents, John Holmes and Casandra Chenoweth Martin, were among the oldest pioneers of this township, having settled here in 1819. The subject of this sketch, during the earlier years of his life, followed the vocation of a farmer, but having a natural predilection for literary attainments, he entered the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where, after pursuing the regular course of studies, he graduated in 1873. Having determined upon the law as his profession, he pursued the study of the same one year, then attended the Cincinnati Law School, where, in 1875, he graduated, and in April of the same year was admitted to practice. In the following summer, he located in Logansport, Ind., in the practice of his profession; but after an experience of six months, the confinement of a law office not agreeing with his inclinations, he abandoned the practice, and engaged in running a flouring-mill. Following this for two years, he next turned his attention to saw-milling; and after continuing in this for about a year and a half, he resumed the honorable and independent occupation of a farmer, at which he is at present engaged.