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Chase County Obituaries
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Martin J.C.
Pioneer Publisher Dies In Oklahoma
Father of Grant Martin Was Co-Founder of Chase County Courant in 1874.
One of this county's earliest newspaper men, J. C. Martin, co-founder with W. E. Timmons of the Chase County Courant in 1874, died Friday at the home of his daughter in Oklahoma City at the age of 95 years.
Grant Martin of Matfield Green, a son, was called to Oklahoma City last week by the critical sickness of his father. Funeral services were held in Fort Worth, Texas, where Mr. Martin lived for many years.
The following account of Mr. Martin's life is from a Fort Worth paper:
J. C. Martin, 93, pioneer Fort Worth resident, veteran newspaperman and supervisor of the first linotype machines brought here, died at 1 a.m. Friday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. C. English, in Oklahoma City.
Born on a farm near Vevay. Indiana, Mr. Martin came to Fort Worth in 1881 from Kansas. Besides newspaper work, he operated a grocery store, served as a member of the Kansas Legislature that passed the first prohibition amendment, operated a job printing plant and served as bailiff in federal court here for four years until 1928.
After operating newspapers in Kansas for 10 years Mr. Martin published a paper in Dallas. He came to Fort Worth soon after the Santa Fe Railway was built and established the Fort Worth Republican.
Later he united with Walter Malone, editor of the Fort Worth Daily Gazette, and was in charge of the mechanical department of that paper. In this capacity he brought the first linotype machines to Texas.
He was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and went to Europe at the close of the hostilities. Mr. Martin married Mary Frances Grant, a cousin of Gen. U. S. Grant after his return from Europe and came to the South to live.
He has been living in Oklahoma City since February of 1935 when his daughter, Mis. Naomi martin, former children's department librarian at the Carnegie Library, died.
Besides Mrs. English he is survived by three sons, S. B. Martin, Fort Worth; Rev. Logan Martin, Newton, Kan., and Grant Martin, Matfield Green, Kans.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, August 19 1936
by Lorna Marvin
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