Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

William MARTIN, dairying; P. O. Wilmington; owns 240 acres, valued at $40 per acre; born 
April 30, 1849, where he now resides. His father, James MARTIN, mother, Catherine GRAHAM 
(MARTIN), both born in Ireland; immigrated to the United States at different periods. Were 
married in Rochester N. Y., in 1836, and emigrated to Will Co. in 1837, locating in 
Wilmington, where he lived for about ten years; thence to the farm now owned by William 
in 1847. There were eight children, three living - Mary (now Mrs. T. BASKERVILLE); James W. 
and William. Mr. MARTIN, Sr. went to California, the overland route, in the spring of 1850, 
where he died the succeeding fall. Thomas enlisted July 1862, in Co. A, 100th IL V. I., 
and died of disease contracted by exposure June, 1863, at Murfreesboro,Tenn. Two died in 
infancy - Edward died here in 1864; John died January 1870.