County Information
Founded May 23, 1857
Named for Henry Martin or Morgan Lewis Martin
County Seat Fairmont
Parent Counties - Faribault and Brown
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Martin County Courthouse, built in 1907
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BIOS: transcribed by Robin Line - Frank A. Day, William A. Hinton, A. D. Palmer, Edward K. Slater, Edward Francis Wade
BUSINESS: News/Ads - Frank P. Woods, First National Bank
MILITARY: MN Historical Society Gold Star Vets, submitted by Robin Line - Elting Wade Houghtaling, Arden Gustaf Johnson, Galen H. Jones, Julius Gregory Klindt, Rudolph Theodore Klusendorf, Chris Nelson, Lester Conrad Personius, John Hjalmer Oselius, Lee Charles Prentice, George Edwin Reader, Fred Henry Carl Reis, Bert Dick Rodewald, Thomas Saxton, George H. Sengbusch, Andrew Sondral, Walter Thieman, Harry Ferdinand Wiebe
NEWS-COMMUNITY: 1922 - Well Drillers Strike Gas
NEWS-VISITS: Alfred Osberg, Edward Osberg
OBITS: George Cornelius Davis sub. by Trevor Davis
OFFICIALS: Rosters - County Officers 1905-1906
PEOPLE: Sven Pearson
JULY 2023
HISTORY: History of Martin County, added sections for 1868 through 1880. Source complete.
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