PETER MARTIN

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      PETER MARTIN is one of the venerable residents of Lincoln county.  He has wrought here since 1888, with marked industry and sagacity and has gained as a result of his labors a fine estate, well improved and productive.  He resides about four miles north of Sherman and is one of the respected and esteemed citizens. Mr. Martin is a descendant of the old Norsemen whose explorations are among the most wonderful of any nation on the globe.  He is possessed of the vigor and progressiveness of his people and has manifested the same during a long and useful career.

      Peter Martin was born in Norway, on December 15, 1832, being the son of Martin and Dorotha (Paulson) Hanson, natives of Norway.  They came to Minnesota in 1854, which state was then an unsurveyed vastness of prairie with no railroad connections nearer than Chicago.  Our subject received his education in the common schools of Norway and when twenty-one came to the United States, settling with his parents in Minnesota in 1854.  For thirty four years, he was an industrious tiller of the soil there and then he decided to sell his property and come to Lincoln county.  This was in 1888 and since that time, Mr. Martin has been one of the well known farmers here.  In 1874, Mr. Martin married Miss Alete, daughter of Martin and Carrie (Peterson) Thompson. The following children have been born to our subject, Martin, Andrew, John, Marie, Albert, Clara D., Peter, M. Lizzie, Henry, and Emil.  Mr. Martin is now seventy-one years of age and is entitled to pass the closing years of his well spent life in the quiet enjoyment of that competence which his industry and success have amassed for him.  He has held many offices of public trust in this country and has ever shown himself worthy of the confidence of the people.  Mr. Martin's spirit may be discerned from the fact that when he came to this country, he immediately set to work to master the English language and soon became a very proficient English scholar.