Col. Martin's parents were:
Norman Fish Martin, b. Sep. 10, 1819 in Randolph, Orange County, VT. and d. Jun. 14, 1900 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. &
Sarah Laura Bidwell, b. Nov. 8, 1824 in Starksboro, Addison County, VT. and d. Mar. 17, 1913 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
In 1868 (judging from the following 1918 anniversary article and the 1900 & 1910 U. S. censuses), Russell Clinton Martin and Sarah Ann Gibson were married.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 10, Col. 1
Thu., Sep. 19, 1918
Veteran's Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Martin will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at Patriotic Hall, No. 1816 South Figueroa street, Saturday evening. Personal friends and all members of patriotic orders are cordially invited. Comrade Martin is serving his fourth term as commander of Bartlett-Logan post, and his wife, Sarah Martin, is a member of Bartlett-Logan Relief Corps.
Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 3, Col. 2-3
Tue., Apr. 14, 1931
Excerpt which accompanies the group photo on the left: These four brothers, the Martins, all of Los Angeles, have been taking trains, hither and yon, for a grand total of 166 years. They are veterans of the Southern Pacific. They are (bottom to top): Julius H. Martin, Col. Russell C. Martin, Jesse C. and Thomas (Charles) A. Martin.
Four Martin Boys Spent 166 Years Taking Locomotives Hither and Yon
Brothers Have Distinction of Being Pilots o Trains Going to New Places
The Martins have been taking locomotives here and there for 166 years.
It's like this:
Julius H. Martin took his first railroad job on the Vermont Central in 1870. Then he went to the Southern Pacific as engineer for 20 years.
He is 85 years old, and has been in Los Angeles since 1876 - when the population was nearly 10,000.
He was secretary of the Southern California Building and Loan Association for 40 years and is now chairman of that organization.
That accounts for Julius.
Col. Russell C. Martin went to work for the Southern Pacific in 1881. He went places and saw things in locomotives until 1916 - 35 years.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
He is 82 and is past commandant of the Veterans' Home of California and past department commander of the Department of California and Nevada, G. A. R.
When not visiting one of the other Martins, he lives at 1275 Westchester place.
Jesse C. Martin, born in Vermont in 1855, was fireman in an old steam sawmill at 12 years of age, brakeman on the Vermont Central Railroad at 14, fireman at 15 and freight engineer at 18.
Jesse rode his first passenger locomotive as engineer in 1876, three years later, which made him one of the youngest engineers in the country. There was only one through transcontinental daily at that time.
DEVELOPS ENGINE
In 1894 as engineer of tests, Jesse helped to develop and operate the first successful oil-burning steam locomotive in the United States. It hauled heavily loaded freight trains over the steep grades of the San Bernardino mountains for the first time.
As field expert, Jesse directed the building of the first railroad between Saugus and Santa Barbara. He is the inventor of the flange oiler now in general use on the Pacific Coast.
Jesse has spent 44 years of the family total of 166 in railroad service.
Charles A. Martin is the baby of the family, having just celebrated his 62nd birthday.
He went to work on the Southern Pacific in 1884 when the 20-ton engine was an "Iron Monster" that little dreamed it was to be supplanted by the 320-ton locomotive of today.
RUNS FIRST TRAIN
Charles, following the best traditions of the Martins, took his locomotives to this place and that until 1900. Then, it having become an old family custom to do things first, he took out the first passenger on the new Salt Lake line to Rattlesnake Island, which has since become Terminal Island.
He finished up the family quota of 166 years as locomotive engineers and retired in 1906.
The occasion of the Martin meeting yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Martin, 1214 Magnolia avenue, was what Jesse very aptly termed a reunion of Los Angeles pioneers.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 7, Col. 3-4
Wed., Jan. 2, 1946
Funeral Set for G. A. R. Leader
Funeral services for Col. Russell C. Martin, 97, Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, by Dr. G. Herbert Smith of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills.
Col. Martin, who formerly lived at 1275 Westchester Place, died at a rest home Saturday. A native of Randolph, Vt., he enlisted at the age of 15 in the 1st Vermont Cavalry and saw two years of action under Gens. Grant, Sheridan and Custer. He came to California when, he said, "the population was less than 10,000."
Veteran S. P. Engineer
After 40 years as an engineer with the Southern Pacific Railway, Col. Martin retired in 1916 and became active in the G. A. R. In 1921 he was appointed commandant of the California Veteran's Home at Napa, serving for seven years. While there he was elected to national G. A. R. offices, moving up to Commander-in-Chief to succeed the Commander who died in 1933. He was elected to the post in 1934.
Later he served more than five terms as Adjutant General of the G. A. R. and as Judge Advocate of its California-Nevada Department. In January, 1942, a portrait of Col. Martin, entitled "The Veteran" and painted by Leonardo Timmons, Southern California artist, was unveiled in the Spring St. foyer of the City Hal, having been presented by the Daughters of Union Veterans which collected funds from patriotic organizations for the purpose.
Col. Martin leaves a brother, Charles A.; a granddaughter, Mrs. Marjorie Gerdl (Gerdi?), and three grandsons, all of Los Angeles. His wife, the former Sarah A. Gibson, and two sons, Norman R. and Fred C. have been dead for several years.
Norman Fish Martin, b. Sep. 10, 1819 in Randolph, Orange County, VT. and d. Jun. 14, 1900 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. &
Sarah Laura Bidwell, b. Nov. 8, 1824 in Starksboro, Addison County, VT. and d. Mar. 17, 1913 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
In 1868 (judging from the following 1918 anniversary article and the 1900 & 1910 U. S. censuses), Russell Clinton Martin and Sarah Ann Gibson were married.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 10, Col. 1
Thu., Sep. 19, 1918
Veteran's Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Martin will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at Patriotic Hall, No. 1816 South Figueroa street, Saturday evening. Personal friends and all members of patriotic orders are cordially invited. Comrade Martin is serving his fourth term as commander of Bartlett-Logan post, and his wife, Sarah Martin, is a member of Bartlett-Logan Relief Corps.
Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 3, Col. 2-3
Tue., Apr. 14, 1931
Excerpt which accompanies the group photo on the left: These four brothers, the Martins, all of Los Angeles, have been taking trains, hither and yon, for a grand total of 166 years. They are veterans of the Southern Pacific. They are (bottom to top): Julius H. Martin, Col. Russell C. Martin, Jesse C. and Thomas (Charles) A. Martin.
Four Martin Boys Spent 166 Years Taking Locomotives Hither and Yon
Brothers Have Distinction of Being Pilots o Trains Going to New Places
The Martins have been taking locomotives here and there for 166 years.
It's like this:
Julius H. Martin took his first railroad job on the Vermont Central in 1870. Then he went to the Southern Pacific as engineer for 20 years.
He is 85 years old, and has been in Los Angeles since 1876 - when the population was nearly 10,000.
He was secretary of the Southern California Building and Loan Association for 40 years and is now chairman of that organization.
That accounts for Julius.
Col. Russell C. Martin went to work for the Southern Pacific in 1881. He went places and saw things in locomotives until 1916 - 35 years.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
He is 82 and is past commandant of the Veterans' Home of California and past department commander of the Department of California and Nevada, G. A. R.
When not visiting one of the other Martins, he lives at 1275 Westchester place.
Jesse C. Martin, born in Vermont in 1855, was fireman in an old steam sawmill at 12 years of age, brakeman on the Vermont Central Railroad at 14, fireman at 15 and freight engineer at 18.
Jesse rode his first passenger locomotive as engineer in 1876, three years later, which made him one of the youngest engineers in the country. There was only one through transcontinental daily at that time.
DEVELOPS ENGINE
In 1894 as engineer of tests, Jesse helped to develop and operate the first successful oil-burning steam locomotive in the United States. It hauled heavily loaded freight trains over the steep grades of the San Bernardino mountains for the first time.
As field expert, Jesse directed the building of the first railroad between Saugus and Santa Barbara. He is the inventor of the flange oiler now in general use on the Pacific Coast.
Jesse has spent 44 years of the family total of 166 in railroad service.
Charles A. Martin is the baby of the family, having just celebrated his 62nd birthday.
He went to work on the Southern Pacific in 1884 when the 20-ton engine was an "Iron Monster" that little dreamed it was to be supplanted by the 320-ton locomotive of today.
RUNS FIRST TRAIN
Charles, following the best traditions of the Martins, took his locomotives to this place and that until 1900. Then, it having become an old family custom to do things first, he took out the first passenger on the new Salt Lake line to Rattlesnake Island, which has since become Terminal Island.
He finished up the family quota of 166 years as locomotive engineers and retired in 1906.
The occasion of the Martin meeting yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Martin, 1214 Magnolia avenue, was what Jesse very aptly termed a reunion of Los Angeles pioneers.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 7, Col. 3-4
Wed., Jan. 2, 1946
Funeral Set for G. A. R. Leader
Funeral services for Col. Russell C. Martin, 97, Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, by Dr. G. Herbert Smith of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills.
Col. Martin, who formerly lived at 1275 Westchester Place, died at a rest home Saturday. A native of Randolph, Vt., he enlisted at the age of 15 in the 1st Vermont Cavalry and saw two years of action under Gens. Grant, Sheridan and Custer. He came to California when, he said, "the population was less than 10,000."
Veteran S. P. Engineer
After 40 years as an engineer with the Southern Pacific Railway, Col. Martin retired in 1916 and became active in the G. A. R. In 1921 he was appointed commandant of the California Veteran's Home at Napa, serving for seven years. While there he was elected to national G. A. R. offices, moving up to Commander-in-Chief to succeed the Commander who died in 1933. He was elected to the post in 1934.
Later he served more than five terms as Adjutant General of the G. A. R. and as Judge Advocate of its California-Nevada Department. In January, 1942, a portrait of Col. Martin, entitled "The Veteran" and painted by Leonardo Timmons, Southern California artist, was unveiled in the Spring St. foyer of the City Hal, having been presented by the Daughters of Union Veterans which collected funds from patriotic organizations for the purpose.
Col. Martin leaves a brother, Charles A.; a granddaughter, Mrs. Marjorie Gerdl (Gerdi?), and three grandsons, all of Los Angeles. His wife, the former Sarah A. Gibson, and two sons, Norman R. and Fred C. have been dead for several years.
Col. Martin's parents were:
Norman Fish Martin, b. Sep. 10, 1819 in Randolph, Orange County, VT. and d. Jun. 14, 1900 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. &
Sarah Laura Bidwell, b. Nov. 8, 1824 in Starksboro, Addison County, VT. and d. Mar. 17, 1913 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
In 1868 (judging from the following 1918 anniversary article and the 1900 & 1910 U. S. censuses), Russell Clinton Martin and Sarah Ann Gibson were married.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 10, Col. 1
Thu., Sep. 19, 1918
Veteran's Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Martin will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at Patriotic Hall, No. 1816 South Figueroa street, Saturday evening. Personal friends and all members of patriotic orders are cordially invited. Comrade Martin is serving his fourth term as commander of Bartlett-Logan post, and his wife, Sarah Martin, is a member of Bartlett-Logan Relief Corps.
Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 3, Col. 2-3
Tue., Apr. 14, 1931
Excerpt which accompanies the group photo on the left: These four brothers, the Martins, all of Los Angeles, have been taking trains, hither and yon, for a grand total of 166 years. They are veterans of the Southern Pacific. They are (bottom to top): Julius H. Martin, Col. Russell C. Martin, Jesse C. and Thomas (Charles) A. Martin.
Four Martin Boys Spent 166 Years Taking Locomotives Hither and Yon
Brothers Have Distinction of Being Pilots o Trains Going to New Places
The Martins have been taking locomotives here and there for 166 years.
It's like this:
Julius H. Martin took his first railroad job on the Vermont Central in 1870. Then he went to the Southern Pacific as engineer for 20 years.
He is 85 years old, and has been in Los Angeles since 1876 - when the population was nearly 10,000.
He was secretary of the Southern California Building and Loan Association for 40 years and is now chairman of that organization.
That accounts for Julius.
Col. Russell C. Martin went to work for the Southern Pacific in 1881. He went places and saw things in locomotives until 1916 - 35 years.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
He is 82 and is past commandant of the Veterans' Home of California and past department commander of the Department of California and Nevada, G. A. R.
When not visiting one of the other Martins, he lives at 1275 Westchester place.
Jesse C. Martin, born in Vermont in 1855, was fireman in an old steam sawmill at 12 years of age, brakeman on the Vermont Central Railroad at 14, fireman at 15 and freight engineer at 18.
Jesse rode his first passenger locomotive as engineer in 1876, three years later, which made him one of the youngest engineers in the country. There was only one through transcontinental daily at that time.
DEVELOPS ENGINE
In 1894 as engineer of tests, Jesse helped to develop and operate the first successful oil-burning steam locomotive in the United States. It hauled heavily loaded freight trains over the steep grades of the San Bernardino mountains for the first time.
As field expert, Jesse directed the building of the first railroad between Saugus and Santa Barbara. He is the inventor of the flange oiler now in general use on the Pacific Coast.
Jesse has spent 44 years of the family total of 166 in railroad service.
Charles A. Martin is the baby of the family, having just celebrated his 62nd birthday.
He went to work on the Southern Pacific in 1884 when the 20-ton engine was an "Iron Monster" that little dreamed it was to be supplanted by the 320-ton locomotive of today.
RUNS FIRST TRAIN
Charles, following the best traditions of the Martins, took his locomotives to this place and that until 1900. Then, it having become an old family custom to do things first, he took out the first passenger on the new Salt Lake line to Rattlesnake Island, which has since become Terminal Island.
He finished up the family quota of 166 years as locomotive engineers and retired in 1906.
The occasion of the Martin meeting yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Martin, 1214 Magnolia avenue, was what Jesse very aptly termed a reunion of Los Angeles pioneers.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 7, Col. 3-4
Wed., Jan. 2, 1946
Funeral Set for G. A. R. Leader
Funeral services for Col. Russell C. Martin, 97, Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, by Dr. G. Herbert Smith of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills.
Col. Martin, who formerly lived at 1275 Westchester Place, died at a rest home Saturday. A native of Randolph, Vt., he enlisted at the age of 15 in the 1st Vermont Cavalry and saw two years of action under Gens. Grant, Sheridan and Custer. He came to California when, he said, "the population was less than 10,000."
Veteran S. P. Engineer
After 40 years as an engineer with the Southern Pacific Railway, Col. Martin retired in 1916 and became active in the G. A. R. In 1921 he was appointed commandant of the California Veteran's Home at Napa, serving for seven years. While there he was elected to national G. A. R. offices, moving up to Commander-in-Chief to succeed the Commander who died in 1933. He was elected to the post in 1934.
Later he served more than five terms as Adjutant General of the G. A. R. and as Judge Advocate of its California-Nevada Department. In January, 1942, a portrait of Col. Martin, entitled "The Veteran" and painted by Leonardo Timmons, Southern California artist, was unveiled in the Spring St. foyer of the City Hal, having been presented by the Daughters of Union Veterans which collected funds from patriotic organizations for the purpose.
Col. Martin leaves a brother, Charles A.; a granddaughter, Mrs. Marjorie Gerdl (Gerdi?), and three grandsons, all of Los Angeles. His wife, the former Sarah A. Gibson, and two sons, Norman R. and Fred C. have been dead for several years.
Norman Fish Martin, b. Sep. 10, 1819 in Randolph, Orange County, VT. and d. Jun. 14, 1900 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. &
Sarah Laura Bidwell, b. Nov. 8, 1824 in Starksboro, Addison County, VT. and d. Mar. 17, 1913 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
In 1868 (judging from the following 1918 anniversary article and the 1900 & 1910 U. S. censuses), Russell Clinton Martin and Sarah Ann Gibson were married.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 10, Col. 1
Thu., Sep. 19, 1918
Veteran's Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Martin will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at Patriotic Hall, No. 1816 South Figueroa street, Saturday evening. Personal friends and all members of patriotic orders are cordially invited. Comrade Martin is serving his fourth term as commander of Bartlett-Logan post, and his wife, Sarah Martin, is a member of Bartlett-Logan Relief Corps.
Los Angeles Evening Express (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 3, Col. 2-3
Tue., Apr. 14, 1931
Excerpt which accompanies the group photo on the left: These four brothers, the Martins, all of Los Angeles, have been taking trains, hither and yon, for a grand total of 166 years. They are veterans of the Southern Pacific. They are (bottom to top): Julius H. Martin, Col. Russell C. Martin, Jesse C. and Thomas (Charles) A. Martin.
Four Martin Boys Spent 166 Years Taking Locomotives Hither and Yon
Brothers Have Distinction of Being Pilots o Trains Going to New Places
The Martins have been taking locomotives here and there for 166 years.
It's like this:
Julius H. Martin took his first railroad job on the Vermont Central in 1870. Then he went to the Southern Pacific as engineer for 20 years.
He is 85 years old, and has been in Los Angeles since 1876 - when the population was nearly 10,000.
He was secretary of the Southern California Building and Loan Association for 40 years and is now chairman of that organization.
That accounts for Julius.
Col. Russell C. Martin went to work for the Southern Pacific in 1881. He went places and saw things in locomotives until 1916 - 35 years.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
He is 82 and is past commandant of the Veterans' Home of California and past department commander of the Department of California and Nevada, G. A. R.
When not visiting one of the other Martins, he lives at 1275 Westchester place.
Jesse C. Martin, born in Vermont in 1855, was fireman in an old steam sawmill at 12 years of age, brakeman on the Vermont Central Railroad at 14, fireman at 15 and freight engineer at 18.
Jesse rode his first passenger locomotive as engineer in 1876, three years later, which made him one of the youngest engineers in the country. There was only one through transcontinental daily at that time.
DEVELOPS ENGINE
In 1894 as engineer of tests, Jesse helped to develop and operate the first successful oil-burning steam locomotive in the United States. It hauled heavily loaded freight trains over the steep grades of the San Bernardino mountains for the first time.
As field expert, Jesse directed the building of the first railroad between Saugus and Santa Barbara. He is the inventor of the flange oiler now in general use on the Pacific Coast.
Jesse has spent 44 years of the family total of 166 in railroad service.
Charles A. Martin is the baby of the family, having just celebrated his 62nd birthday.
He went to work on the Southern Pacific in 1884 when the 20-ton engine was an "Iron Monster" that little dreamed it was to be supplanted by the 320-ton locomotive of today.
RUNS FIRST TRAIN
Charles, following the best traditions of the Martins, took his locomotives to this place and that until 1900. Then, it having become an old family custom to do things first, he took out the first passenger on the new Salt Lake line to Rattlesnake Island, which has since become Terminal Island.
He finished up the family quota of 166 years as locomotive engineers and retired in 1906.
The occasion of the Martin meeting yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Martin, 1214 Magnolia avenue, was what Jesse very aptly termed a reunion of Los Angeles pioneers.
Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA.), P. 7, Col. 3-4
Wed., Jan. 2, 1946
Funeral Set for G. A. R. Leader
Funeral services for Col. Russell C. Martin, 97, Past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, by Dr. G. Herbert Smith of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills.
Col. Martin, who formerly lived at 1275 Westchester Place, died at a rest home Saturday. A native of Randolph, Vt., he enlisted at the age of 15 in the 1st Vermont Cavalry and saw two years of action under Gens. Grant, Sheridan and Custer. He came to California when, he said, "the population was less than 10,000."
Veteran S. P. Engineer
After 40 years as an engineer with the Southern Pacific Railway, Col. Martin retired in 1916 and became active in the G. A. R. In 1921 he was appointed commandant of the California Veteran's Home at Napa, serving for seven years. While there he was elected to national G. A. R. offices, moving up to Commander-in-Chief to succeed the Commander who died in 1933. He was elected to the post in 1934.
Later he served more than five terms as Adjutant General of the G. A. R. and as Judge Advocate of its California-Nevada Department. In January, 1942, a portrait of Col. Martin, entitled "The Veteran" and painted by Leonardo Timmons, Southern California artist, was unveiled in the Spring St. foyer of the City Hal, having been presented by the Daughters of Union Veterans which collected funds from patriotic organizations for the purpose.
Col. Martin leaves a brother, Charles A.; a granddaughter, Mrs. Marjorie Gerdl (Gerdi?), and three grandsons, all of Los Angeles. His wife, the former Sarah A. Gibson, and two sons, Norman R. and Fred C. have been dead for several years.
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