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Title: Cleveland, past and present; its representative men:
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Joblin, Maurice, pub Decker, Edgar
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Publisher: Cleveland, O., Fairbanks, Benedict & co., printers, 1869
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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he went into the employ of another firm, with whom heworked two years. At the end of that time his employers were owing him more thanthey could pay, so, to square the matter, he bought an interest intheir business. But this did not mend the matter, as it proved to bean interest in their debts, more than in their business, they beingdeeply involved. The firm owned the brig Courtland, and one of themembers had sailed her for some time at a great loss. Young Martintook his place and proved himself master of the situation, by reduc-ing the liabilities of the firm to about .S2,500. That done he sold thevessel, dissolved partnership, and commenced planking and generaljobbing again. After a time he built a vessel for )\Ioses vt Quayle.He found frequent employment in wrecking jobs, being very success-ful at such work. .«U;97 0//:) .tffOtfr. lot ToIaui9 ;- r-y^H v« .x) d^!v/ i>g:2i/;^a9 •: fA .v; Mi! o.-* iJ9?o:tq j.U.jf; /tsJifita d>iij I)fi:9mJor *»liLjI 7l/.)i:-;
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isTVE^/T iil!^^(fjlBi;) iiujjiliwyijii;i»^ \ %. J^ ^., ^ ITS REPRESENTATIVE MEN. 1«V.» The throe years thus occupied gave him a start in life. He .•U-in-doA the indebteauess of the okl lirm and had $3,000 ahead. Ih- ih.-i,took the contract for building the brig John G. Deshler, for Handy,Warren ^ Co. This was a very successful contract, and gave Mr..Martin a handsome lift, and enabled him to take an interest Nvitb Mr.Quayle, under the firm name of Quayle vt Martin, a brief mention ofits operations being made in the sketch of Mr. Quayles life. In 185S, Mr. Martin loaded the John G. Deshler and D. C. Iiercewith staves and made a successful trip to England, and on the returnbrodght one of the spans for the Victoria bridge at Montreal. In1S50, he took over two more cargoes in the same vessels, selling onein Cork, and the other in Glasgow. Nor was this the only connectionof the firm with the direct lake and ocean trade. They have builtvessels for Liverpool parties, for ocean service,

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