HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OR RAPID CITY SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1876.
William Porter Martin was born in Millersburg Kentucky on the 22nd of March 1825 to Edwin Hiram Martin Rebecca Stitt. He went west at an early age getting to Pottawattamie County Iowa by February of 1850. He and his wife Clarissa nee Higley with seven month old John, born in Iowa, are there in the 1850 census. William has no employment at that point.
Later he was employed as an agent of the American Fur Company, which was headquartered at Council Bluffs Iowa. It served the as the trading post for the Indians of the region. He went to Colorado as early as 1857 and in 1858 he went to Salt Lake City Utah with General Sidney Johnson, who was later well known in the Civil War
The census taken in 1870 shows William and family back in Millersburg Kentucky, he is a Whiskey dealer.
The pattern of the childrens birth shows that they were in Colorado in 1858 when daughter Nellie was born, in Utah in 1860 when daughter Jennie was born, and in Iowa where daughter Georgianna and son Edmund were born, in 1852 and 1850.
William's obituary says that he went to Denver in 1861 and started the Elephant Corral, which in 1881 was still in business. It still stands to this day and is a tourist attraction, it was a Livestock Exchange, it was established in 1859.
Records from Cheyenne Wyoming indicate William was there in 1868 and paid taxes on property, he is said to have built the fist house in Cheyenne, this can't be verified.
The town was founded in 1867 when the railroad came through, about six hundred people lived there at the time. If William appears in the Cheyenne Business directory, he is either running a Saloon or is a mechanic? There are two William Martins in the directory.
William also got involved in mining but soon gave it up and went to "the fabulous gold fields of Montana", but soon moved on to Salt Lake City .
In September of 1873 he arrived in Pueblo Colorado with his children and constructed the first "modern house on the South side of the River, it was known and the Schuyler House, named for a Capt Schuyler. He was former chief engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
It appears from family records that Clarrisa may have died in 1873 in California before William came to Pueblo.
William was one of the leading citizens that promoted Pueblo and assisted in laying out and organizing the new town in 1873 he was an agent for CCI Company and constructed the several bridges in Pueblo and was a charter member of the street railroad company but that project failed to materialize.
In 1871 William Martin took a Chattel Mortgage on the contents of the Schuyler House. By that time the property was already known as the Grand Central Hotel. The Pueblo paper reports that William Martin is building a block building that will be suitable for businesses or stores in December of 1872. In June of 1875 a trustee Sale was held, a deed of trust was created to be paid off in a year for six thousand dollars.
His obituary gives this as explanation for his departure from Pueblo, "when the season that tries men souls set in" William sold his property and headed to Dakota to found Rapid City!
February 25, 1876 William Martin is with John Brennan, Albert Brown, Martin Pensinger, William Marston, Thomas Ferguson and Dick King., when Rapid City is founded.
It was upon the suggestion of William Martin, that Rapid City was given its name.
He helped construct the Bear Butte Toll road and the road from Rapid City to Buffalo Gap. William and a man named Ben Nottington were working on the road to Custer City on April 5,1876, near Hayward when they were attacked by Indians.
He served on the finance committee for Dakota Territory. in 1877. The last mention of William Martin in Deadwood is September 6, 1877.
No further information comes from the Pueblo paper but he must have gone back there. He is not found in the 1880 census of Pueblo Colorado.
The Black Hills Weekly Journal reports August 3, 1881 that he was hopelessly insane. The information came from a letter sent to Sam Scott from AJ Griffith.
Williams obituary says that Andy Griffith had been his constant companion for eighteen years. William died November 11, 1881 in Pueblo Colorado, his funeral was held at the Union Chapel and he is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.
William Martin is another of the founders who was very busy man before and after he was present at the founding of Rapid City, he seemed to like to begin towns. He was a miner and an adventurer and seems to have taken his family with him some of the places he went to find his fortune.
FAMILY STORY
Williams wife Clarrisa who was born to Myron Higley and Pricilla Ebberson 21October 1829 in New York,. Some sources say Canada, but she always said New York, William and Clarrisa had four children, Edmund Hiram always called John or Jack, was born February 2,1850 in Pottowatamie County Council Bluffs Iowa. He married Mary P Dickson February 24,1874 in Pueblo Colorado.
He was the dry goods business for at least five years. In December of 1879 the Pueblo newspaper reports he has resigned his position with Wilson and Shepord. In the opinion of the Chieftain Newspaper Jack Martin "the best salesman who ever stood behind a counter in Pueblo"
In February of 1879 he formed a successful business partnership with is bother in law James Orman..
Edmund with a new wife Josephine are in Cipple Creek Teller County Colorado in 1900, they have a daughter whose name is not legible, she is 6 and they have been married seven years. Also with them appears to be a daughter of Edmund by his first wife, her name maybe Hattie.
She was born June of 1881 in Colorado. Edmond is working as real estate agent. Edmund "Jack" may have been a Warden at the Colorado Prison in Cripple while he was there. By 1910 the family is in California, they have been married fifteen years and have a daughter Mildred who is fourteen years old. The name of the daughter in 1900 in no way looks like Mildred. Edmond is working as a real estate agent in Los Angeles.
The family story is that he died March 16, 1917 in Seattle Washington and is buried there.
Edmund "Jack" Martin and Mary had two daughters Ethel born in1876 in Colorado and Jennie born in1877 also in Colorado.. The Pueblo paper announced in February 11,1880 that a son was to he and his wife, his name was Jack Martin Jr. possibly Edmund Hiram Jr...It seems he died, since the 1880 census taken in June of 1880 doesn't have a son for William and Mary Martin. Attempts to find what became of Edmund "Jack" and his children were unsuccessful
The second child of William and Clarissa was Nellie, she was born April 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City, she married James B Orman who was in many and varied business adventures. He along with his brother William ran a road construction company that not only made roads but railroad grades. Bought and sold mules and horses for construction.
He also was in business with William Martins son John for a time. They sold dry goods together in Pueblo. He was Mayor of Pueblo 1897 –1898, and served two terms in the House of Representatives. He was nominated for Governor of Colorado in1900 and was elected and served from 1901 to 1903, he was Democrat and received support from the Populist.
He is said to have had an interest in the Oro Hondo mine in Lead SD, which had both silver and gold, and was bought by Homesteak.
James Orman is the Orman in Orman Dam in Belle Fourche SD, he and a Mr Crook had the original contract to build the dam in 1905. He and Mr Crook also had a contract in Colorado to build an irrigation project in 1905 and in 1906 got a contract to build the Chicago Milwaukee ST Paul railroad west from Butte Montana.
All of this may have caused the company of Orman and Crook to go broke before the Orman Dam project was finished but his name remains today on the landscape of western South Dakata .
He owned a lot of land in Denver and Pueblo and coal fields in Huerano County Colorado. James Oman is said to hold the record for building more miles of railroad in Colorado than anyone else.
He came from Denver in to Pueblo in 1874 and married Nellie Martin September 28, 1876 . He was president of the Bankers Consolidated mines near Ordway Colorado.
Nellie Orman died December 14, 1917 after suffering a stroke. She also had lost all of her siblings in a very short time. This is said to have contributed to her stroke,
Her niece Adelaide Anderson and nephew William Simpson attended the funeral from Denver Colorado. Her husband James B died July 21, 1919 both are buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.
James and Nellie Orman had two children FrederickB b September 7,1877 in Pueblo, he married Ella Matty, June 19,1901 in Denver and he died December 25,1948 and is buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.. A little girl End Alva was born May 12, 1879 and died June ,12, 1881 in Pueblo.
Federick Orman and Ella had two children,
Nell born August 31, 1902 in Pueblo, she married Robert Chandler. They had two children Ellen and Robert. Nell died Mar 21, 1994 in Shreveport Louisiana. A son Fred was born Jan 20,1914 in Pueblo, he moved to Lousiana perhaps be cause his sister Nell married a man from Shreveport and lived there.
Fred Orman married … Baird and died in Franlinton Washington LA November 1983 Ella Orman died in Franklinton Washington LA June 30,1980 and Fred died in the same place in Nov 1983. Members of this family still live in Franklinton LA.
The third child of William Martin and Clarissa was Georgianna born in September 1852 in Iowa.. She married George Stimpson, he had been a clerk at Fort Segwick near Julesburg Colorado and came to Cheyenne in 1867. Georgianna Martin married George Stimpson October 13,1867 in Cheyenne Wyoming.
In the 1870 George and eighteen year old wife Georgia are in Laramie County Cheyenne Wyoming, daughter Addie is seven months old. In the 1880 census of Wyoming the family is in Cheyenne Wyoming and George says he is a Capitalist!!! In 1868 he owned GB Stimpson & Co a billards establishment.
In 1880 the family moved to Pueblo Colorado where he was elected Postmaster. George died of Consumption August 13, 1891 in Denver Colorado and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne WY.He was forty eight years old.
Georgianna Martin is reported to have married second Samuel W Morgan and died August 13, 1917 in San Diego California. She is living in Los Angles as Georgia Stimpson in 1900, she is not found in the 1910 census anywhere with the name Morgan. She died June 5,1917 in San Diego California and is probably buried there.George Stimpson and Georgianna Martin had two children
Adelaide Stimpson was born in Oct of 1869 in Wyoming and married Alfanof Anderson , he was a superintendent of mines in San Juan County Colorado in 1900. They lived in Pueblo as early as 1885, I do not believe they had any children. In 1910 she is living in Denver as a widow..
George Stimpson and Georgianna had a son William born February 1873 in Cheyenne Wyoming, he married Helen C Even in about 1911 in Denver Colorado.
In 1900 he is boarding in Pueblo working as an agent for the Stamp Mill. In 1910 and 1920 he is a land agent in the Denver Land office by 1930 he is a land agent, not with the Land Office perhaps. He and Helen have no children in the 1930 census.
What we do know is that Jennie third child of William and Clarrisa was born in 1860 in Salt Lake City Utah and was shot and killed in Cheyenne Wyoming in June 18, 1876. She was living with her brother in law George Stimpson. His daughter Adelalide was with her on the street of Cheyenne when she was shot.
The first report was that a black boy of twelve had shot her more or less on purpose because he was angry with someone from an incident that happened in school. But when the investigation was complete this was proven false. And despite a reward posted by the County, George Stimpson and her brother Edmund "Jack" amounting to seven hundred dollars, no one ever told who shot her.
No mention is made of her sister Georgianna or her parents. Jennie was buried from the Methodist Church in Cheyenne and buried in Lakeview Cemetery. We know that William Martin was in Deadwood until September of 1877 and no mention is made of this incident in the Deadwood papers the story comes from Cheyenne Wy to the Pueblo CO paper.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Bourbon County Genealogy Society - Edmund Martin (1747 NJ - 1811 Ky) Family
Submitted by Maude Oney Martin w/o Charles F Martin (Jack's nephew) pp. 5-6
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kybcgs/family/ff-martin.htm
This sketch has proven to be generally accurate.
I would like to thank you for the time and trouble it took to input the biographical data for Edmund "Jack" Martin on the Find A Grave website. I am descended from Mary W Martin, Jack's older sister, and have had limited access
to any records on his family.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Chronicling America - The Bourbon News
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Use Advance Search - highlight both Bourbon News. Several items on Jack's family and other family who relocated to Colorado
DAR Genealogy Data Base
http://www.dar.org/
Of the 11 eligible females in this line 4 were members: Ella Chandler Edward, Mildred Martin Rupert, Nellie Martin Orman, Nell Orman Chandler. Ancestors are Edmund Martin (A071640), John Higley (A055452), Peter Fite (A040068)
BACKGROUND
The Martin farm straddled the Nicholas county/ Bourbon county line on US68 about 1 mile north of Millersburg (Bourbon county). The Old Millersburg Cemetery (family grave site) is about 300 yards south of the house in Nicholas county.
The Martin name has died out in this area.
SELECTED NEWS ITEMS
Bourbon News 17 Jul 1883 p,2 col.4 - Edmond (sic) Martin of Flemingsburg, left yesterday to make a visit to his cousin, Jack Martin, at Pueblo, Colorado, and Andrew Griffith, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will also fall in with the Knights Templars and attend the Grand Conclave, at San Francisco in August.
Bourbon News 30 Sep 1902 p. 5 col. 3 - Mr Ed "Jack" Martin, warden of Colorado penitentiary at Canyon City, Col, and brother in law of Gov Orman, of that state, is here on a visit to Judge Harmon Stitt and other relatives.
Bourbon News 26 Jun 1906 p. 4 col. 3 - Mrs Georgia Morgan, nee Martin, of San Diego, Cal is visiting relatives here. (Note husband's name is Stephen W Morgan)
Bourbon News 22 Jul 1904 p.1 col. 4 - Mrs J B Orman, who has been the guest of her cousins, Miss Rebecca and Mrs Chas Martin and Mrs Harmon Stitt during the Summer, left for Pueblo, Col, Wednesday.
Bourbon News 14 Jan 1910 p.4 col.3 - Mr Chas Conway, of Chicago, Ill, arrived Sunday and is at the bedside of his mother, Mrs Lou F Conway, who continues critically ill. Her granddaughter, Mrs Leonard Morgan West, of Pueblo, Col will arrive today. (Note 3rd cousin of Nell Orman)
Bourbon News 30 Aug 1910 p.8 col.3 Cards have been receives from Ex- Postmaster R B Boulden saying that he arrived safely at Pueblo, Col., on Sunday evening, August 21. He is much pleased with the place and is beginning to feel at home. He has gained three pounds in weight since leaving Millersburg. (Note
father of Anna Belle West)
Ethel Martin married Elijah G Meaders abt 1897. 1900 Census - sister Jennie was
residing w/ her in Cripple Creek, Col
Mildred Martin married Harry Edward Rupert abt 1919. 1920 Census residing in Seattle Wash
Georgia Martin appears in Millersburg, Ky single in 1870 Census. Your data indicates that she is in Cheyenne, Wy married w/ children. Are the dates wrong?
Thanks again.
Respectfully
G B Wieman
LCDR USNR-R (Ret)
William Porter Martin was born in Millersburg Kentucky on the 22nd of March 1825 to Edwin Hiram Martin Rebecca Stitt. He went west at an early age getting to Pottawattamie County Iowa by February of 1850. He and his wife Clarissa nee Higley with seven month old John, born in Iowa, are there in the 1850 census. William has no employment at that point.
Later he was employed as an agent of the American Fur Company, which was headquartered at Council Bluffs Iowa. It served the as the trading post for the Indians of the region. He went to Colorado as early as 1857 and in 1858 he went to Salt Lake City Utah with General Sidney Johnson, who was later well known in the Civil War
The census taken in 1870 shows William and family back in Millersburg Kentucky, he is a Whiskey dealer.
The pattern of the childrens birth shows that they were in Colorado in 1858 when daughter Nellie was born, in Utah in 1860 when daughter Jennie was born, and in Iowa where daughter Georgianna and son Edmund were born, in 1852 and 1850.
William's obituary says that he went to Denver in 1861 and started the Elephant Corral, which in 1881 was still in business. It still stands to this day and is a tourist attraction, it was a Livestock Exchange, it was established in 1859.
Records from Cheyenne Wyoming indicate William was there in 1868 and paid taxes on property, he is said to have built the fist house in Cheyenne, this can't be verified.
The town was founded in 1867 when the railroad came through, about six hundred people lived there at the time. If William appears in the Cheyenne Business directory, he is either running a Saloon or is a mechanic? There are two William Martins in the directory.
William also got involved in mining but soon gave it up and went to "the fabulous gold fields of Montana", but soon moved on to Salt Lake City .
In September of 1873 he arrived in Pueblo Colorado with his children and constructed the first "modern house on the South side of the River, it was known and the Schuyler House, named for a Capt Schuyler. He was former chief engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
It appears from family records that Clarrisa may have died in 1873 in California before William came to Pueblo.
William was one of the leading citizens that promoted Pueblo and assisted in laying out and organizing the new town in 1873 he was an agent for CCI Company and constructed the several bridges in Pueblo and was a charter member of the street railroad company but that project failed to materialize.
In 1871 William Martin took a Chattel Mortgage on the contents of the Schuyler House. By that time the property was already known as the Grand Central Hotel. The Pueblo paper reports that William Martin is building a block building that will be suitable for businesses or stores in December of 1872. In June of 1875 a trustee Sale was held, a deed of trust was created to be paid off in a year for six thousand dollars.
His obituary gives this as explanation for his departure from Pueblo, "when the season that tries men souls set in" William sold his property and headed to Dakota to found Rapid City!
February 25, 1876 William Martin is with John Brennan, Albert Brown, Martin Pensinger, William Marston, Thomas Ferguson and Dick King., when Rapid City is founded.
It was upon the suggestion of William Martin, that Rapid City was given its name.
He helped construct the Bear Butte Toll road and the road from Rapid City to Buffalo Gap. William and a man named Ben Nottington were working on the road to Custer City on April 5,1876, near Hayward when they were attacked by Indians.
He served on the finance committee for Dakota Territory. in 1877. The last mention of William Martin in Deadwood is September 6, 1877.
No further information comes from the Pueblo paper but he must have gone back there. He is not found in the 1880 census of Pueblo Colorado.
The Black Hills Weekly Journal reports August 3, 1881 that he was hopelessly insane. The information came from a letter sent to Sam Scott from AJ Griffith.
Williams obituary says that Andy Griffith had been his constant companion for eighteen years. William died November 11, 1881 in Pueblo Colorado, his funeral was held at the Union Chapel and he is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.
William Martin is another of the founders who was very busy man before and after he was present at the founding of Rapid City, he seemed to like to begin towns. He was a miner and an adventurer and seems to have taken his family with him some of the places he went to find his fortune.
FAMILY STORY
Williams wife Clarrisa who was born to Myron Higley and Pricilla Ebberson 21October 1829 in New York,. Some sources say Canada, but she always said New York, William and Clarrisa had four children, Edmund Hiram always called John or Jack, was born February 2,1850 in Pottowatamie County Council Bluffs Iowa. He married Mary P Dickson February 24,1874 in Pueblo Colorado.
He was the dry goods business for at least five years. In December of 1879 the Pueblo newspaper reports he has resigned his position with Wilson and Shepord. In the opinion of the Chieftain Newspaper Jack Martin "the best salesman who ever stood behind a counter in Pueblo"
In February of 1879 he formed a successful business partnership with is bother in law James Orman..
Edmund with a new wife Josephine are in Cipple Creek Teller County Colorado in 1900, they have a daughter whose name is not legible, she is 6 and they have been married seven years. Also with them appears to be a daughter of Edmund by his first wife, her name maybe Hattie.
She was born June of 1881 in Colorado. Edmond is working as real estate agent. Edmund "Jack" may have been a Warden at the Colorado Prison in Cripple while he was there. By 1910 the family is in California, they have been married fifteen years and have a daughter Mildred who is fourteen years old. The name of the daughter in 1900 in no way looks like Mildred. Edmond is working as a real estate agent in Los Angeles.
The family story is that he died March 16, 1917 in Seattle Washington and is buried there.
Edmund "Jack" Martin and Mary had two daughters Ethel born in1876 in Colorado and Jennie born in1877 also in Colorado.. The Pueblo paper announced in February 11,1880 that a son was to he and his wife, his name was Jack Martin Jr. possibly Edmund Hiram Jr...It seems he died, since the 1880 census taken in June of 1880 doesn't have a son for William and Mary Martin. Attempts to find what became of Edmund "Jack" and his children were unsuccessful
The second child of William and Clarissa was Nellie, she was born April 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City, she married James B Orman who was in many and varied business adventures. He along with his brother William ran a road construction company that not only made roads but railroad grades. Bought and sold mules and horses for construction.
He also was in business with William Martins son John for a time. They sold dry goods together in Pueblo. He was Mayor of Pueblo 1897 –1898, and served two terms in the House of Representatives. He was nominated for Governor of Colorado in1900 and was elected and served from 1901 to 1903, he was Democrat and received support from the Populist.
He is said to have had an interest in the Oro Hondo mine in Lead SD, which had both silver and gold, and was bought by Homesteak.
James Orman is the Orman in Orman Dam in Belle Fourche SD, he and a Mr Crook had the original contract to build the dam in 1905. He and Mr Crook also had a contract in Colorado to build an irrigation project in 1905 and in 1906 got a contract to build the Chicago Milwaukee ST Paul railroad west from Butte Montana.
All of this may have caused the company of Orman and Crook to go broke before the Orman Dam project was finished but his name remains today on the landscape of western South Dakata .
He owned a lot of land in Denver and Pueblo and coal fields in Huerano County Colorado. James Oman is said to hold the record for building more miles of railroad in Colorado than anyone else.
He came from Denver in to Pueblo in 1874 and married Nellie Martin September 28, 1876 . He was president of the Bankers Consolidated mines near Ordway Colorado.
Nellie Orman died December 14, 1917 after suffering a stroke. She also had lost all of her siblings in a very short time. This is said to have contributed to her stroke,
Her niece Adelaide Anderson and nephew William Simpson attended the funeral from Denver Colorado. Her husband James B died July 21, 1919 both are buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.
James and Nellie Orman had two children FrederickB b September 7,1877 in Pueblo, he married Ella Matty, June 19,1901 in Denver and he died December 25,1948 and is buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.. A little girl End Alva was born May 12, 1879 and died June ,12, 1881 in Pueblo.
Federick Orman and Ella had two children,
Nell born August 31, 1902 in Pueblo, she married Robert Chandler. They had two children Ellen and Robert. Nell died Mar 21, 1994 in Shreveport Louisiana. A son Fred was born Jan 20,1914 in Pueblo, he moved to Lousiana perhaps be cause his sister Nell married a man from Shreveport and lived there.
Fred Orman married … Baird and died in Franlinton Washington LA November 1983 Ella Orman died in Franklinton Washington LA June 30,1980 and Fred died in the same place in Nov 1983. Members of this family still live in Franklinton LA.
The third child of William Martin and Clarissa was Georgianna born in September 1852 in Iowa.. She married George Stimpson, he had been a clerk at Fort Segwick near Julesburg Colorado and came to Cheyenne in 1867. Georgianna Martin married George Stimpson October 13,1867 in Cheyenne Wyoming.
In the 1870 George and eighteen year old wife Georgia are in Laramie County Cheyenne Wyoming, daughter Addie is seven months old. In the 1880 census of Wyoming the family is in Cheyenne Wyoming and George says he is a Capitalist!!! In 1868 he owned GB Stimpson & Co a billards establishment.
In 1880 the family moved to Pueblo Colorado where he was elected Postmaster. George died of Consumption August 13, 1891 in Denver Colorado and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne WY.He was forty eight years old.
Georgianna Martin is reported to have married second Samuel W Morgan and died August 13, 1917 in San Diego California. She is living in Los Angles as Georgia Stimpson in 1900, she is not found in the 1910 census anywhere with the name Morgan. She died June 5,1917 in San Diego California and is probably buried there.George Stimpson and Georgianna Martin had two children
Adelaide Stimpson was born in Oct of 1869 in Wyoming and married Alfanof Anderson , he was a superintendent of mines in San Juan County Colorado in 1900. They lived in Pueblo as early as 1885, I do not believe they had any children. In 1910 she is living in Denver as a widow..
George Stimpson and Georgianna had a son William born February 1873 in Cheyenne Wyoming, he married Helen C Even in about 1911 in Denver Colorado.
In 1900 he is boarding in Pueblo working as an agent for the Stamp Mill. In 1910 and 1920 he is a land agent in the Denver Land office by 1930 he is a land agent, not with the Land Office perhaps. He and Helen have no children in the 1930 census.
What we do know is that Jennie third child of William and Clarrisa was born in 1860 in Salt Lake City Utah and was shot and killed in Cheyenne Wyoming in June 18, 1876. She was living with her brother in law George Stimpson. His daughter Adelalide was with her on the street of Cheyenne when she was shot.
The first report was that a black boy of twelve had shot her more or less on purpose because he was angry with someone from an incident that happened in school. But when the investigation was complete this was proven false. And despite a reward posted by the County, George Stimpson and her brother Edmund "Jack" amounting to seven hundred dollars, no one ever told who shot her.
No mention is made of her sister Georgianna or her parents. Jennie was buried from the Methodist Church in Cheyenne and buried in Lakeview Cemetery. We know that William Martin was in Deadwood until September of 1877 and no mention is made of this incident in the Deadwood papers the story comes from Cheyenne Wy to the Pueblo CO paper.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Bourbon County Genealogy Society - Edmund Martin (1747 NJ - 1811 Ky) Family
Submitted by Maude Oney Martin w/o Charles F Martin (Jack's nephew) pp. 5-6
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kybcgs/family/ff-martin.htm
This sketch has proven to be generally accurate.
I would like to thank you for the time and trouble it took to input the biographical data for Edmund "Jack" Martin on the Find A Grave website. I am descended from Mary W Martin, Jack's older sister, and have had limited access
to any records on his family.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Chronicling America - The Bourbon News
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Use Advance Search - highlight both Bourbon News. Several items on Jack's family and other family who relocated to Colorado
DAR Genealogy Data Base
http://www.dar.org/
Of the 11 eligible females in this line 4 were members: Ella Chandler Edward, Mildred Martin Rupert, Nellie Martin Orman, Nell Orman Chandler. Ancestors are Edmund Martin (A071640), John Higley (A055452), Peter Fite (A040068)
BACKGROUND
The Martin farm straddled the Nicholas county/ Bourbon county line on US68 about 1 mile north of Millersburg (Bourbon county). The Old Millersburg Cemetery (family grave site) is about 300 yards south of the house in Nicholas county.
The Martin name has died out in this area.
SELECTED NEWS ITEMS
Bourbon News 17 Jul 1883 p,2 col.4 - Edmond (sic) Martin of Flemingsburg, left yesterday to make a visit to his cousin, Jack Martin, at Pueblo, Colorado, and Andrew Griffith, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will also fall in with the Knights Templars and attend the Grand Conclave, at San Francisco in August.
Bourbon News 30 Sep 1902 p. 5 col. 3 - Mr Ed "Jack" Martin, warden of Colorado penitentiary at Canyon City, Col, and brother in law of Gov Orman, of that state, is here on a visit to Judge Harmon Stitt and other relatives.
Bourbon News 26 Jun 1906 p. 4 col. 3 - Mrs Georgia Morgan, nee Martin, of San Diego, Cal is visiting relatives here. (Note husband's name is Stephen W Morgan)
Bourbon News 22 Jul 1904 p.1 col. 4 - Mrs J B Orman, who has been the guest of her cousins, Miss Rebecca and Mrs Chas Martin and Mrs Harmon Stitt during the Summer, left for Pueblo, Col, Wednesday.
Bourbon News 14 Jan 1910 p.4 col.3 - Mr Chas Conway, of Chicago, Ill, arrived Sunday and is at the bedside of his mother, Mrs Lou F Conway, who continues critically ill. Her granddaughter, Mrs Leonard Morgan West, of Pueblo, Col will arrive today. (Note 3rd cousin of Nell Orman)
Bourbon News 30 Aug 1910 p.8 col.3 Cards have been receives from Ex- Postmaster R B Boulden saying that he arrived safely at Pueblo, Col., on Sunday evening, August 21. He is much pleased with the place and is beginning to feel at home. He has gained three pounds in weight since leaving Millersburg. (Note
father of Anna Belle West)
Ethel Martin married Elijah G Meaders abt 1897. 1900 Census - sister Jennie was
residing w/ her in Cripple Creek, Col
Mildred Martin married Harry Edward Rupert abt 1919. 1920 Census residing in Seattle Wash
Georgia Martin appears in Millersburg, Ky single in 1870 Census. Your data indicates that she is in Cheyenne, Wy married w/ children. Are the dates wrong?
Thanks again.
Respectfully
G B Wieman
LCDR USNR-R (Ret)
HE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OR RAPID CITY SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1876.
William Porter Martin was born in Millersburg Kentucky on the 22nd of March 1825 to Edwin Hiram Martin Rebecca Stitt. He went west at an early age getting to Pottawattamie County Iowa by February of 1850. He and his wife Clarissa nee Higley with seven month old John, born in Iowa, are there in the 1850 census. William has no employment at that point.
Later he was employed as an agent of the American Fur Company, which was headquartered at Council Bluffs Iowa. It served the as the trading post for the Indians of the region. He went to Colorado as early as 1857 and in 1858 he went to Salt Lake City Utah with General Sidney Johnson, who was later well known in the Civil War
The census taken in 1870 shows William and family back in Millersburg Kentucky, he is a Whiskey dealer.
The pattern of the childrens birth shows that they were in Colorado in 1858 when daughter Nellie was born, in Utah in 1860 when daughter Jennie was born, and in Iowa where daughter Georgianna and son Edmund were born, in 1852 and 1850.
William's obituary says that he went to Denver in 1861 and started the Elephant Corral, which in 1881 was still in business. It still stands to this day and is a tourist attraction, it was a Livestock Exchange, it was established in 1859.
Records from Cheyenne Wyoming indicate William was there in 1868 and paid taxes on property, he is said to have built the fist house in Cheyenne, this can't be verified.
The town was founded in 1867 when the railroad came through, about six hundred people lived there at the time. If William appears in the Cheyenne Business directory, he is either running a Saloon or is a mechanic? There are two William Martins in the directory.
William also got involved in mining but soon gave it up and went to "the fabulous gold fields of Montana", but soon moved on to Salt Lake City .
In September of 1873 he arrived in Pueblo Colorado with his children and constructed the first "modern house on the South side of the River, it was known and the Schuyler House, named for a Capt Schuyler. He was former chief engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
It appears from family records that Clarrisa may have died in 1873 in California before William came to Pueblo.
William was one of the leading citizens that promoted Pueblo and assisted in laying out and organizing the new town in 1873 he was an agent for CCI Company and constructed the several bridges in Pueblo and was a charter member of the street railroad company but that project failed to materialize.
In 1871 William Martin took a Chattel Mortgage on the contents of the Schuyler House. By that time the property was already known as the Grand Central Hotel. The Pueblo paper reports that William Martin is building a block building that will be suitable for businesses or stores in December of 1872. In June of 1875 a trustee Sale was held, a deed of trust was created to be paid off in a year for six thousand dollars.
His obituary gives this as explanation for his departure from Pueblo, "when the season that tries men souls set in" William sold his property and headed to Dakota to found Rapid City!
February 25, 1876 William Martin is with John Brennan, Albert Brown, Martin Pensinger, William Marston, Thomas Ferguson and Dick King., when Rapid City is founded.
It was upon the suggestion of William Martin, that Rapid City was given its name.
He helped construct the Bear Butte Toll road and the road from Rapid City to Buffalo Gap. William and a man named Ben Nottington were working on the road to Custer City on April 5,1876, near Hayward when they were attacked by Indians.
He served on the finance committee for Dakota Territory. in 1877. The last mention of William Martin in Deadwood is September 6, 1877.
No further information comes from the Pueblo paper but he must have gone back there. He is not found in the 1880 census of Pueblo Colorado.
The Black Hills Weekly Journal reports August 3, 1881 that he was hopelessly insane. The information came from a letter sent to Sam Scott from AJ Griffith.
Williams obituary says that Andy Griffith had been his constant companion for eighteen years. William died November 11, 1881 in Pueblo Colorado, his funeral was held at the Union Chapel and he is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.
William Martin is another of the founders who was very busy man before and after he was present at the founding of Rapid City, he seemed to like to begin towns. He was a miner and an adventurer and seems to have taken his family with him some of the places he went to find his fortune.
FAMILY STORY
Williams wife Clarrisa who was born to Myron Higley and Pricilla Ebberson 21October 1829 in New York,. Some sources say Canada, but she always said New York, William and Clarrisa had four children, Edmund Hiram always called John or Jack, was born February 2,1850 in Pottowatamie County Council Bluffs Iowa. He married Mary P Dickson February 24,1874 in Pueblo Colorado.
He was the dry goods business for at least five years. In December of 1879 the Pueblo newspaper reports he has resigned his position with Wilson and Shepord. In the opinion of the Chieftain Newspaper Jack Martin "the best salesman who ever stood behind a counter in Pueblo"
In February of 1879 he formed a successful business partnership with is bother in law James Orman..
Edmund with a new wife Josephine are in Cipple Creek Teller County Colorado in 1900, they have a daughter whose name is not legible, she is 6 and they have been married seven years. Also with them appears to be a daughter of Edmund by his first wife, her name maybe Hattie.
She was born June of 1881 in Colorado. Edmond is working as real estate agent. Edmund "Jack" may have been a Warden at the Colorado Prison in Cripple while he was there. By 1910 the family is in California, they have been married fifteen years and have a daughter Mildred who is fourteen years old. The name of the daughter in 1900 in no way looks like Mildred. Edmond is working as a real estate agent in Los Angeles.
The family story is that he died March 16, 1917 in Seattle Washington and is buried there.
Edmund "Jack" Martin and Mary had two daughters Ethel born in1876 in Colorado and Jennie born in1877 also in Colorado.. The Pueblo paper announced in February 11,1880 that a son was to he and his wife, his name was Jack Martin Jr. possibly Edmund Hiram Jr...It seems he died, since the 1880 census taken in June of 1880 doesn't have a son for William and Mary Martin. Attempts to find what became of Edmund "Jack" and his children were unsuccessful
The second child of William and Clarissa was Nellie, she was born April 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City, she married James B Orman who was in many and varied business adventures. He along with his brother William ran a road construction company that not only made roads but railroad grades. Bought and sold mules and horses for construction.
He also was in business with William Martins son John for a time. They sold dry goods together in Pueblo. He was Mayor of Pueblo 1897 –1898, and served two terms in the House of Representatives. He was nominated for Governor of Colorado in1900 and was elected and served from 1901 to 1903, he was Democrat and received support from the Populist.
He is said to have had an interest in the Oro Hondo mine in Lead SD, which had both silver and gold, and was bought by Homesteak.
James Orman is the Orman in Orman Dam in Belle Fourche SD, he and a Mr Crook had the original contract to build the dam in 1905. He and Mr Crook also had a contract in Colorado to build an irrigation project in 1905 and in 1906 got a contract to build the Chicago Milwaukee ST Paul railroad west from Butte Montana.
All of this may have caused the company of Orman and Crook to go broke before the Orman Dam project was finished but his name remains today on the landscape of western South Dakata .
He owned a lot of land in Denver and Pueblo and coal fields in Huerano County Colorado. James Oman is said to hold the record for building more miles of railroad in Colorado than anyone else.
He came from Denver in to Pueblo in 1874 and married Nellie Martin September 28, 1876 . He was president of the Bankers Consolidated mines near Ordway Colorado.
Nellie Orman died December 14, 1917 after suffering a stroke. She also had lost all of her siblings in a very short time. This is said to have contributed to her stroke,
Her niece Adelaide Anderson and nephew William Simpson attended the funeral from Denver Colorado. Her husband James B died July 21, 1919 both are buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.
James and Nellie Orman had two children FrederickB b September 7,1877 in Pueblo, he married Ella Matty, June 19,1901 in Denver and he died December 25,1948 and is buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.. A little girl End Alva was born May 12, 1879 and died June ,12, 1881 in Pueblo.
Federick Orman and Ella had two children,
Nell born August 31, 1902 in Pueblo, she married Robert Chandler. They had two children Ellen and Robert. Nell died Mar 21, 1994 in Shreveport Louisiana. A son Fred was born Jan 20,1914 in Pueblo, he moved to Lousiana perhaps be cause his sister Nell married a man from Shreveport and lived there.
Fred Orman married … Baird and died in Franlinton Washington LA November 1983 Ella Orman died in Franklinton Washington LA June 30,1980 and Fred died in the same place in Nov 1983. Members of this family still live in Franklinton LA.
The third child of William Martin and Clarissa was Georgianna born in September 1852 in Iowa.. She married George Stimpson, he had been a clerk at Fort Segwick near Julesburg Colorado and came to Cheyenne in 1867. Georgianna Martin married George Stimpson October 13,1867 in Cheyenne Wyoming.
In the 1870 George and eighteen year old wife Georgia are in Laramie County Cheyenne Wyoming, daughter Addie is seven months old. In the 1880 census of Wyoming the family is in Cheyenne Wyoming and George says he is a Capitalist!!! In 1868 he owned GB Stimpson & Co a billards establishment.
In 1880 the family moved to Pueblo Colorado where he was elected Postmaster. George died of Consumption August 13, 1891 in Denver Colorado and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne WY.He was forty eight years old.
Georgianna Martin is reported to have married second Samuel W Morgan and died August 13, 1917 in San Diego California. She is living in Los Angles as Georgia Stimpson in 1900, she is not found in the 1910 census anywhere with the name Morgan. She died June 5,1917 in San Diego California and is probably buried there.George Stimpson and Georgianna Martin had two children
Adelaide Stimpson was born in Oct of 1869 in Wyoming and married Alfanof Anderson , he was a superintendent of mines in San Juan County Colorado in 1900. They lived in Pueblo as early as 1885, I do not believe they had any children. In 1910 she is living in Denver as a widow..
George Stimpson and Georgianna had a son William born February 1873 in Cheyenne Wyoming, he married Helen C Even in about 1911 in Denver Colorado.
In 1900 he is boarding in Pueblo working as an agent for the Stamp Mill. In 1910 and 1920 he is a land agent in the Denver Land office by 1930 he is a land agent, not with the Land Office perhaps. He and Helen have no children in the 1930 census.
What we do know is that Jennie third child of William and Clarrisa was born in 1860 in Salt Lake City Utah and was shot and killed in Cheyenne Wyoming in June 18, 1876. She was living with her brother in law George Stimpson. His daughter Adelalide was with her on the street of Cheyenne when she was shot.
The first report was that a black boy of twelve had shot her more or less on purpose because he was angry with someone from an incident that happened in school. But when the investigation was complete this was proven false. And despite a reward posted by the County, George Stimpson and her brother Edmund "Jack" amounting to seven hundred dollars, no one ever told who shot her.
No mention is made of her sister Georgianna or her parents. Jennie was buried from the Methodist Church in Cheyenne and buried in Lakeview Cemetery. We know that William Martin was in Deadwood until September of 1877 and no mention is made of this incident in the Deadwood papers the story comes from Cheyenne Wy to the Pueblo CO paper.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Bourbon County Genealogy Society - Edmund Martin (1747 NJ - 1811 Ky) Family
Submitted by Maude Oney Martin w/o Charles F Martin (Jack's nephew) pp. 5-6
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kybcgs/family/ff-martin.htm
This sketch has proven to be generally accurate.
I would like to thank you for the time and trouble it took to input the biographical data for Edmund "Jack" Martin on the Find A Grave website. I am descended from Mary W Martin, Jack's older sister, and have had limited access
to any records on his family.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Chronicling America - The Bourbon News
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Use Advance Search - highlight both Bourbon News. Several items on Jack's family and other family who relocated to Colorado
DAR Genealogy Data Base
http://www.dar.org/
Of the 11 eligible females in this line 4 were members: Ella Chandler Edward, Mildred Martin Rupert, Nellie Martin Orman, Nell Orman Chandler. Ancestors are Edmund Martin (A071640), John Higley (A055452), Peter Fite (A040068)
BACKGROUND
The Martin farm straddled the Nicholas county/ Bourbon county line on US68 about 1 mile north of Millersburg (Bourbon county). The Old Millersburg Cemetery (family grave site) is about 300 yards south of the house in Nicholas county.
The Martin name has died out in this area.
SELECTED NEWS ITEMS
Bourbon News 17 Jul 1883 p,2 col.4 - Edmond (sic) Martin of Flemingsburg, left yesterday to make a visit to his cousin, Jack Martin, at Pueblo, Colorado, and Andrew Griffith, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will also fall in with the Knights Templars and attend the Grand Conclave, at San Francisco in August.
Bourbon News 30 Sep 1902 p. 5 col. 3 - Mr Ed "Jack" Martin, warden of Colorado penitentiary at Canyon City, Col, and brother in law of Gov Orman, of that state, is here on a visit to Judge Harmon Stitt and other relatives.
Bourbon News 26 Jun 1906 p. 4 col. 3 - Mrs Georgia Morgan, nee Martin, of San Diego, Cal is visiting relatives here. (Note husband's name is Stephen W Morgan)
Bourbon News 22 Jul 1904 p.1 col. 4 - Mrs J B Orman, who has been the guest of her cousins, Miss Rebecca and Mrs Chas Martin and Mrs Harmon Stitt during the Summer, left for Pueblo, Col, Wednesday.
Bourbon News 14 Jan 1910 p.4 col.3 - Mr Chas Conway, of Chicago, Ill, arrived Sunday and is at the bedside of his mother, Mrs Lou F Conway, who continues critically ill. Her granddaughter, Mrs Leonard Morgan West, of Pueblo, Col will arrive today. (Note 3rd cousin of Nell Orman)
Bourbon News 30 Aug 1910 p.8 col.3 Cards have been receives from Ex- Postmaster R B Boulden saying that he arrived safely at Pueblo, Col., on Sunday evening, August 21. He is much pleased with the place and is beginning to feel at home. He has gained three pounds in weight since leaving Millersburg. (Note
father of Anna Belle West)
Ethel Martin married Elijah G Meaders abt 1897. 1900 Census - sister Jennie was
residing w/ her in Cripple Creek, Col
Mildred Martin married Harry Edward Rupert abt 1919. 1920 Census residing in Seattle Wash
Georgia Martin appears in Millersburg, Ky single in 1870 Census. Your data indicates that she is in Cheyenne, Wy married w/ children. Are the dates wrong?
Thanks again.
Respectfully
G B Wieman
LCDR USNR-R (Ret)
William Porter Martin was born in Millersburg Kentucky on the 22nd of March 1825 to Edwin Hiram Martin Rebecca Stitt. He went west at an early age getting to Pottawattamie County Iowa by February of 1850. He and his wife Clarissa nee Higley with seven month old John, born in Iowa, are there in the 1850 census. William has no employment at that point.
Later he was employed as an agent of the American Fur Company, which was headquartered at Council Bluffs Iowa. It served the as the trading post for the Indians of the region. He went to Colorado as early as 1857 and in 1858 he went to Salt Lake City Utah with General Sidney Johnson, who was later well known in the Civil War
The census taken in 1870 shows William and family back in Millersburg Kentucky, he is a Whiskey dealer.
The pattern of the childrens birth shows that they were in Colorado in 1858 when daughter Nellie was born, in Utah in 1860 when daughter Jennie was born, and in Iowa where daughter Georgianna and son Edmund were born, in 1852 and 1850.
William's obituary says that he went to Denver in 1861 and started the Elephant Corral, which in 1881 was still in business. It still stands to this day and is a tourist attraction, it was a Livestock Exchange, it was established in 1859.
Records from Cheyenne Wyoming indicate William was there in 1868 and paid taxes on property, he is said to have built the fist house in Cheyenne, this can't be verified.
The town was founded in 1867 when the railroad came through, about six hundred people lived there at the time. If William appears in the Cheyenne Business directory, he is either running a Saloon or is a mechanic? There are two William Martins in the directory.
William also got involved in mining but soon gave it up and went to "the fabulous gold fields of Montana", but soon moved on to Salt Lake City .
In September of 1873 he arrived in Pueblo Colorado with his children and constructed the first "modern house on the South side of the River, it was known and the Schuyler House, named for a Capt Schuyler. He was former chief engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
It appears from family records that Clarrisa may have died in 1873 in California before William came to Pueblo.
William was one of the leading citizens that promoted Pueblo and assisted in laying out and organizing the new town in 1873 he was an agent for CCI Company and constructed the several bridges in Pueblo and was a charter member of the street railroad company but that project failed to materialize.
In 1871 William Martin took a Chattel Mortgage on the contents of the Schuyler House. By that time the property was already known as the Grand Central Hotel. The Pueblo paper reports that William Martin is building a block building that will be suitable for businesses or stores in December of 1872. In June of 1875 a trustee Sale was held, a deed of trust was created to be paid off in a year for six thousand dollars.
His obituary gives this as explanation for his departure from Pueblo, "when the season that tries men souls set in" William sold his property and headed to Dakota to found Rapid City!
February 25, 1876 William Martin is with John Brennan, Albert Brown, Martin Pensinger, William Marston, Thomas Ferguson and Dick King., when Rapid City is founded.
It was upon the suggestion of William Martin, that Rapid City was given its name.
He helped construct the Bear Butte Toll road and the road from Rapid City to Buffalo Gap. William and a man named Ben Nottington were working on the road to Custer City on April 5,1876, near Hayward when they were attacked by Indians.
He served on the finance committee for Dakota Territory. in 1877. The last mention of William Martin in Deadwood is September 6, 1877.
No further information comes from the Pueblo paper but he must have gone back there. He is not found in the 1880 census of Pueblo Colorado.
The Black Hills Weekly Journal reports August 3, 1881 that he was hopelessly insane. The information came from a letter sent to Sam Scott from AJ Griffith.
Williams obituary says that Andy Griffith had been his constant companion for eighteen years. William died November 11, 1881 in Pueblo Colorado, his funeral was held at the Union Chapel and he is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.
William Martin is another of the founders who was very busy man before and after he was present at the founding of Rapid City, he seemed to like to begin towns. He was a miner and an adventurer and seems to have taken his family with him some of the places he went to find his fortune.
FAMILY STORY
Williams wife Clarrisa who was born to Myron Higley and Pricilla Ebberson 21October 1829 in New York,. Some sources say Canada, but she always said New York, William and Clarrisa had four children, Edmund Hiram always called John or Jack, was born February 2,1850 in Pottowatamie County Council Bluffs Iowa. He married Mary P Dickson February 24,1874 in Pueblo Colorado.
He was the dry goods business for at least five years. In December of 1879 the Pueblo newspaper reports he has resigned his position with Wilson and Shepord. In the opinion of the Chieftain Newspaper Jack Martin "the best salesman who ever stood behind a counter in Pueblo"
In February of 1879 he formed a successful business partnership with is bother in law James Orman..
Edmund with a new wife Josephine are in Cipple Creek Teller County Colorado in 1900, they have a daughter whose name is not legible, she is 6 and they have been married seven years. Also with them appears to be a daughter of Edmund by his first wife, her name maybe Hattie.
She was born June of 1881 in Colorado. Edmond is working as real estate agent. Edmund "Jack" may have been a Warden at the Colorado Prison in Cripple while he was there. By 1910 the family is in California, they have been married fifteen years and have a daughter Mildred who is fourteen years old. The name of the daughter in 1900 in no way looks like Mildred. Edmond is working as a real estate agent in Los Angeles.
The family story is that he died March 16, 1917 in Seattle Washington and is buried there.
Edmund "Jack" Martin and Mary had two daughters Ethel born in1876 in Colorado and Jennie born in1877 also in Colorado.. The Pueblo paper announced in February 11,1880 that a son was to he and his wife, his name was Jack Martin Jr. possibly Edmund Hiram Jr...It seems he died, since the 1880 census taken in June of 1880 doesn't have a son for William and Mary Martin. Attempts to find what became of Edmund "Jack" and his children were unsuccessful
The second child of William and Clarissa was Nellie, she was born April 2, 1859 in Salt Lake City, she married James B Orman who was in many and varied business adventures. He along with his brother William ran a road construction company that not only made roads but railroad grades. Bought and sold mules and horses for construction.
He also was in business with William Martins son John for a time. They sold dry goods together in Pueblo. He was Mayor of Pueblo 1897 –1898, and served two terms in the House of Representatives. He was nominated for Governor of Colorado in1900 and was elected and served from 1901 to 1903, he was Democrat and received support from the Populist.
He is said to have had an interest in the Oro Hondo mine in Lead SD, which had both silver and gold, and was bought by Homesteak.
James Orman is the Orman in Orman Dam in Belle Fourche SD, he and a Mr Crook had the original contract to build the dam in 1905. He and Mr Crook also had a contract in Colorado to build an irrigation project in 1905 and in 1906 got a contract to build the Chicago Milwaukee ST Paul railroad west from Butte Montana.
All of this may have caused the company of Orman and Crook to go broke before the Orman Dam project was finished but his name remains today on the landscape of western South Dakata .
He owned a lot of land in Denver and Pueblo and coal fields in Huerano County Colorado. James Oman is said to hold the record for building more miles of railroad in Colorado than anyone else.
He came from Denver in to Pueblo in 1874 and married Nellie Martin September 28, 1876 . He was president of the Bankers Consolidated mines near Ordway Colorado.
Nellie Orman died December 14, 1917 after suffering a stroke. She also had lost all of her siblings in a very short time. This is said to have contributed to her stroke,
Her niece Adelaide Anderson and nephew William Simpson attended the funeral from Denver Colorado. Her husband James B died July 21, 1919 both are buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.
James and Nellie Orman had two children FrederickB b September 7,1877 in Pueblo, he married Ella Matty, June 19,1901 in Denver and he died December 25,1948 and is buried in Roselawn Cemetery in Pueblo.. A little girl End Alva was born May 12, 1879 and died June ,12, 1881 in Pueblo.
Federick Orman and Ella had two children,
Nell born August 31, 1902 in Pueblo, she married Robert Chandler. They had two children Ellen and Robert. Nell died Mar 21, 1994 in Shreveport Louisiana. A son Fred was born Jan 20,1914 in Pueblo, he moved to Lousiana perhaps be cause his sister Nell married a man from Shreveport and lived there.
Fred Orman married … Baird and died in Franlinton Washington LA November 1983 Ella Orman died in Franklinton Washington LA June 30,1980 and Fred died in the same place in Nov 1983. Members of this family still live in Franklinton LA.
The third child of William Martin and Clarissa was Georgianna born in September 1852 in Iowa.. She married George Stimpson, he had been a clerk at Fort Segwick near Julesburg Colorado and came to Cheyenne in 1867. Georgianna Martin married George Stimpson October 13,1867 in Cheyenne Wyoming.
In the 1870 George and eighteen year old wife Georgia are in Laramie County Cheyenne Wyoming, daughter Addie is seven months old. In the 1880 census of Wyoming the family is in Cheyenne Wyoming and George says he is a Capitalist!!! In 1868 he owned GB Stimpson & Co a billards establishment.
In 1880 the family moved to Pueblo Colorado where he was elected Postmaster. George died of Consumption August 13, 1891 in Denver Colorado and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne WY.He was forty eight years old.
Georgianna Martin is reported to have married second Samuel W Morgan and died August 13, 1917 in San Diego California. She is living in Los Angles as Georgia Stimpson in 1900, she is not found in the 1910 census anywhere with the name Morgan. She died June 5,1917 in San Diego California and is probably buried there.George Stimpson and Georgianna Martin had two children
Adelaide Stimpson was born in Oct of 1869 in Wyoming and married Alfanof Anderson , he was a superintendent of mines in San Juan County Colorado in 1900. They lived in Pueblo as early as 1885, I do not believe they had any children. In 1910 she is living in Denver as a widow..
George Stimpson and Georgianna had a son William born February 1873 in Cheyenne Wyoming, he married Helen C Even in about 1911 in Denver Colorado.
In 1900 he is boarding in Pueblo working as an agent for the Stamp Mill. In 1910 and 1920 he is a land agent in the Denver Land office by 1930 he is a land agent, not with the Land Office perhaps. He and Helen have no children in the 1930 census.
What we do know is that Jennie third child of William and Clarrisa was born in 1860 in Salt Lake City Utah and was shot and killed in Cheyenne Wyoming in June 18, 1876. She was living with her brother in law George Stimpson. His daughter Adelalide was with her on the street of Cheyenne when she was shot.
The first report was that a black boy of twelve had shot her more or less on purpose because he was angry with someone from an incident that happened in school. But when the investigation was complete this was proven false. And despite a reward posted by the County, George Stimpson and her brother Edmund "Jack" amounting to seven hundred dollars, no one ever told who shot her.
No mention is made of her sister Georgianna or her parents. Jennie was buried from the Methodist Church in Cheyenne and buried in Lakeview Cemetery. We know that William Martin was in Deadwood until September of 1877 and no mention is made of this incident in the Deadwood papers the story comes from Cheyenne Wy to the Pueblo CO paper.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Bourbon County Genealogy Society - Edmund Martin (1747 NJ - 1811 Ky) Family
Submitted by Maude Oney Martin w/o Charles F Martin (Jack's nephew) pp. 5-6
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kybcgs/family/ff-martin.htm
This sketch has proven to be generally accurate.
I would like to thank you for the time and trouble it took to input the biographical data for Edmund "Jack" Martin on the Find A Grave website. I am descended from Mary W Martin, Jack's older sister, and have had limited access
to any records on his family.
I believe I may have some sources of which you may not be aware exist:
Chronicling America - The Bourbon News
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Use Advance Search - highlight both Bourbon News. Several items on Jack's family and other family who relocated to Colorado
DAR Genealogy Data Base
http://www.dar.org/
Of the 11 eligible females in this line 4 were members: Ella Chandler Edward, Mildred Martin Rupert, Nellie Martin Orman, Nell Orman Chandler. Ancestors are Edmund Martin (A071640), John Higley (A055452), Peter Fite (A040068)
BACKGROUND
The Martin farm straddled the Nicholas county/ Bourbon county line on US68 about 1 mile north of Millersburg (Bourbon county). The Old Millersburg Cemetery (family grave site) is about 300 yards south of the house in Nicholas county.
The Martin name has died out in this area.
SELECTED NEWS ITEMS
Bourbon News 17 Jul 1883 p,2 col.4 - Edmond (sic) Martin of Flemingsburg, left yesterday to make a visit to his cousin, Jack Martin, at Pueblo, Colorado, and Andrew Griffith, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will also fall in with the Knights Templars and attend the Grand Conclave, at San Francisco in August.
Bourbon News 30 Sep 1902 p. 5 col. 3 - Mr Ed "Jack" Martin, warden of Colorado penitentiary at Canyon City, Col, and brother in law of Gov Orman, of that state, is here on a visit to Judge Harmon Stitt and other relatives.
Bourbon News 26 Jun 1906 p. 4 col. 3 - Mrs Georgia Morgan, nee Martin, of San Diego, Cal is visiting relatives here. (Note husband's name is Stephen W Morgan)
Bourbon News 22 Jul 1904 p.1 col. 4 - Mrs J B Orman, who has been the guest of her cousins, Miss Rebecca and Mrs Chas Martin and Mrs Harmon Stitt during the Summer, left for Pueblo, Col, Wednesday.
Bourbon News 14 Jan 1910 p.4 col.3 - Mr Chas Conway, of Chicago, Ill, arrived Sunday and is at the bedside of his mother, Mrs Lou F Conway, who continues critically ill. Her granddaughter, Mrs Leonard Morgan West, of Pueblo, Col will arrive today. (Note 3rd cousin of Nell Orman)
Bourbon News 30 Aug 1910 p.8 col.3 Cards have been receives from Ex- Postmaster R B Boulden saying that he arrived safely at Pueblo, Col., on Sunday evening, August 21. He is much pleased with the place and is beginning to feel at home. He has gained three pounds in weight since leaving Millersburg. (Note
father of Anna Belle West)
Ethel Martin married Elijah G Meaders abt 1897. 1900 Census - sister Jennie was
residing w/ her in Cripple Creek, Col
Mildred Martin married Harry Edward Rupert abt 1919. 1920 Census residing in Seattle Wash
Georgia Martin appears in Millersburg, Ky single in 1870 Census. Your data indicates that she is in Cheyenne, Wy married w/ children. Are the dates wrong?
Thanks again.
Respectfully
G B Wieman
LCDR USNR-R (Ret)
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