Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameMary Jane HARRIS 
208, given name only,224, surname
208, given name only,224, surnameBirth21 Jun 1877, Boone, Boone, Iowa225, place only; age 76,226, date only
Death30 Mar 1975, Los Angeles County, California226,227, year only Age: 97
BurialMountain View Cemetery, Altadena, Los Angeles, California227
FatherWright HARRIS (~1832-)
MotherAlma (~1843-)
Census
• 1880 Census: Boonesboro, Boone, Iowa. Age 2, b IA. Twin. Father b England; mother b KY.224
• 1910 Census: Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Age 29, b IA. Father b England; mother b IN. Married 2 years. Mother of 1 non-living child.228
• 1930 Census: South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 50, b IA. Father b England; mother b IN. Milliner; Owns Shop. Married 29 years.229
• 1910 Census: Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Age 29, b IA. Father b England; mother b IN. Married 2 years. Mother of 1 non-living child.228
• 1930 Census: South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 50, b IA. Father b England; mother b IN. Milliner; Owns Shop. Married 29 years.229
Spouses
1Maxwell Maynard LONG227
Birth5 Feb 1880, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois227
Death17 Jan 1942, Oceanside, San Diego, California227 Age: 61
BurialMountain View Cemetery, Altadena, Los Angeles, California227
NicknameMax229
ResidenceVista, California (1942)227
FatherJohn R. LONG (1838-)
MotherUNNAMED (-<1900)
Individual Notes
• Max N. [sic] Long Dies After Injuries Sustained in Fall.227
Census
• 1900 Census: Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. Age 20, b IL. Single. At school. Father b KY; mother b IL. Living in father’s household.1110
• 1910 Census: Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Age 30, b IL. Own income. Father b KY; mother b MO.228
• 1930 Census: South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 50, b IL. Parents b IL. Clerk, Grocery Store. Listed as Max M. Long.229
• 1910 Census: Des Moines, Polk, Iowa. Age 30, b IL. Own income. Father b KY; mother b MO.228
• 1930 Census: South Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 50, b IL. Parents b IL. Clerk, Grocery Store. Listed as Max M. Long.229
ChildrenUNNAMED (-<1910)
Birth21 Oct 1874, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois199
Ancestral File #N434-WG82
OccupationManual Arts Instructor, Pasadena High School
EducationThroop Institute (now Caltech), Pasadena204, p 3
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherPhiletus Sylvanus MARTIN (1844-1934)
MotherFlora Maria DAUGHERTY (1849-1926)
Individual Notes
• Graduated Pomona High School on June 26, 1891. Gave oration on Leadership.205
• 754 Locust Street, Pasadena, Calif., June 11, ‘05
For once in my life I have broken a record and am not proud of it; but when this family letter reached me, I was right in the midst of closing up my school work for the year and any of you who are teachers will know what that means. I enjoyed reading the letters very much and thought I would write immediately but with company in the house and the exercises of commencement week on, all letter writing was thrust aside.
“Well!” I hear you say, “Who is this busy body any way?” I am Walter W., the youngest son of P. S. and F. M. Martin and the only one of their family who has ventured to establish a home of his own, although they say that my oldest brother is on the brink of the matrimonial sea. Probably that is why he couldn’t find time to add his little letter.
It was my good fortune to spend two years with Aunt Jane and Uncle Henry, 1896-98, while I was finishing my work in Rockford High School and during that time I met a good many of my relatives. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed those days with you in your different homes and my wish is that I may have the pleasure of entertaining you all in my home here in the “Crown of the Valley.”
I hold at present (and have held the same for the past six years) the position of instructor in woodshop at Throop Polytechnic Institute. I have about one hundred boys each year to look after in my department. They are in the same grade as the first year in high school. I enjoy my work very much. My three months’ summer vacation I spend with my father-in-law at Long Beach helping him rustle groceries.
On Christmas morning, 1901, I was married to Maude M. Fellows, the only child of E. F. Fellows of Los Angeles. We have been very happy together since that time and now have a little boy in our home who is right up to the Martin standard. He is just a year old and--well, ask his grandparents if you don’t think he is all right. His name is Hoyt Fellows Martin, please excuse him if he doesn’t write as he is asleep.
Now I hope you will forgive me for delaying the letter and I’ll promise not to do so again.
Yours affectionately,
Walter W. Martin.206, pp 31-2
• Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 14, 06. [excerpts]
Your letters came to us two days ago in the nature of a valentine and I will say as all the rest have said, “We enjoyed them very much.” Eight months have passed since I wrote you before and we are still enjoying life and work in beautiful Pasadena.
Cousin May asks if I have forgotten the four girls who made me miserably (happy). No, not I, and I just long for the chance to reciprocate in some way for the many pleasant times I had with them. You say, “Walter in far away California.” Do you realize that it is less than three days’ journey? Just try it and see for yourself.
I am going to enclose a picture of our little boy Hoyt. It was taken last September, so of course he has changed a good deal since then. He is twenty months old now and is growing sweeter and cuter every day. He talks a great deal and begins to show a wonderful memory.206, p 71
• Moved to Rose Villa Street in Pasadena in 1914.
Source: Doris Martin Atwell, 11 Nov 1991, as told to Gretchen Martin Mills.
• His Rest Is Hard-Earned
When Walter W. Martin, head of the Manual Training Department of the high school, went on his annual camping trip to Little Bear Lake last week he took with him a pneumatic mattress, remarking to his friends that he had at last discovered the secret of comfortable camping.
At the ghastly hour of 2:30 o’clock that night he awoke to the fact that it was a rheumatic instead of pneumatic mattress. It had lost its air, and the large buttons used to hold it in quilted shape stood out with distressing prominence. After a half hour of agony the auto pump was brought out, and there as the silvery moonlight danced on the ripples of the lake and reflected back on the whispering pines a solitary white-clad figure could be seen going through the rhythmic motions of a man pumping a tire.
Mr. Martin has been doing this for nearly two weeks now, but by this time he does it subconsciously without even waking up.
Not every man gets so imbued with the war spirit, even in these troublesome times, that he blows up his own bed every night in his sleep!207
• Walter Martin, Retired School Teacher, Dies
Walter Martin, member of a family which moved to Pomona in 1895 and who was a graduate of Pomona High School, died Tuesday at Mt. San Antonio Gardens. He was a teacher by profession.
As a boy he was a member of the Martin family whose home was on Towne Avenue just north of Holt Avenue for many years.
Martin attended Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena, which was the forerunner of Throop Institute that later became California Institute of Technology.
From 1912 to 1940 Martin taught in Pasadena public schools heading the department of manual training. He taught in Pasadena City College during World War II because of a shortage of instructors. He retired the second time in 1944 at the age of 70.
Subsequently he became manager of the Pacific Coast office of Mrs. Stewart’s Bluing Company and continued in that office until it was closed in 1958.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin were members of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church until a year ago when they moved to Mt. San Antonio Gardens, Congregational Homes Retirement Community in Pomona, and became members of Claremont Congregational Church.
Martin is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Jane Martin; a son, Dr. Hoyt Martin, South Pasadena; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Atwell, Altadena; and four grandchildren.201,208
• Former Teacher Here Dies [excerpts]
Funeral services for Walter Martin, a former Pasadena City School teacher, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Turner & Stevens Pasadena chapel.
Mr. Martin died yesterday morning in Pomona. He was a native of Rockford, Ill., and with his family moved to Pomona when he was a boy.
He taught in Pasadena City College during World War II because of the shortage of instructors. He retired the second time in 1944 at the age of 70.209
• 754 Locust Street, Pasadena, Calif., June 11, ‘05
For once in my life I have broken a record and am not proud of it; but when this family letter reached me, I was right in the midst of closing up my school work for the year and any of you who are teachers will know what that means. I enjoyed reading the letters very much and thought I would write immediately but with company in the house and the exercises of commencement week on, all letter writing was thrust aside.
“Well!” I hear you say, “Who is this busy body any way?” I am Walter W., the youngest son of P. S. and F. M. Martin and the only one of their family who has ventured to establish a home of his own, although they say that my oldest brother is on the brink of the matrimonial sea. Probably that is why he couldn’t find time to add his little letter.
It was my good fortune to spend two years with Aunt Jane and Uncle Henry, 1896-98, while I was finishing my work in Rockford High School and during that time I met a good many of my relatives. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed those days with you in your different homes and my wish is that I may have the pleasure of entertaining you all in my home here in the “Crown of the Valley.”
I hold at present (and have held the same for the past six years) the position of instructor in woodshop at Throop Polytechnic Institute. I have about one hundred boys each year to look after in my department. They are in the same grade as the first year in high school. I enjoy my work very much. My three months’ summer vacation I spend with my father-in-law at Long Beach helping him rustle groceries.
On Christmas morning, 1901, I was married to Maude M. Fellows, the only child of E. F. Fellows of Los Angeles. We have been very happy together since that time and now have a little boy in our home who is right up to the Martin standard. He is just a year old and--well, ask his grandparents if you don’t think he is all right. His name is Hoyt Fellows Martin, please excuse him if he doesn’t write as he is asleep.
Now I hope you will forgive me for delaying the letter and I’ll promise not to do so again.
Yours affectionately,
Walter W. Martin.206, pp 31-2
• Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 14, 06. [excerpts]
Your letters came to us two days ago in the nature of a valentine and I will say as all the rest have said, “We enjoyed them very much.” Eight months have passed since I wrote you before and we are still enjoying life and work in beautiful Pasadena.
Cousin May asks if I have forgotten the four girls who made me miserably (happy). No, not I, and I just long for the chance to reciprocate in some way for the many pleasant times I had with them. You say, “Walter in far away California.” Do you realize that it is less than three days’ journey? Just try it and see for yourself.
I am going to enclose a picture of our little boy Hoyt. It was taken last September, so of course he has changed a good deal since then. He is twenty months old now and is growing sweeter and cuter every day. He talks a great deal and begins to show a wonderful memory.206, p 71
• Moved to Rose Villa Street in Pasadena in 1914.
Source: Doris Martin Atwell, 11 Nov 1991, as told to Gretchen Martin Mills.
• His Rest Is Hard-Earned
When Walter W. Martin, head of the Manual Training Department of the high school, went on his annual camping trip to Little Bear Lake last week he took with him a pneumatic mattress, remarking to his friends that he had at last discovered the secret of comfortable camping.
At the ghastly hour of 2:30 o’clock that night he awoke to the fact that it was a rheumatic instead of pneumatic mattress. It had lost its air, and the large buttons used to hold it in quilted shape stood out with distressing prominence. After a half hour of agony the auto pump was brought out, and there as the silvery moonlight danced on the ripples of the lake and reflected back on the whispering pines a solitary white-clad figure could be seen going through the rhythmic motions of a man pumping a tire.
Mr. Martin has been doing this for nearly two weeks now, but by this time he does it subconsciously without even waking up.
Not every man gets so imbued with the war spirit, even in these troublesome times, that he blows up his own bed every night in his sleep!207
• Walter Martin, Retired School Teacher, Dies
Walter Martin, member of a family which moved to Pomona in 1895 and who was a graduate of Pomona High School, died Tuesday at Mt. San Antonio Gardens. He was a teacher by profession.
As a boy he was a member of the Martin family whose home was on Towne Avenue just north of Holt Avenue for many years.
Martin attended Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena, which was the forerunner of Throop Institute that later became California Institute of Technology.
From 1912 to 1940 Martin taught in Pasadena public schools heading the department of manual training. He taught in Pasadena City College during World War II because of a shortage of instructors. He retired the second time in 1944 at the age of 70.
Subsequently he became manager of the Pacific Coast office of Mrs. Stewart’s Bluing Company and continued in that office until it was closed in 1958.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin were members of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church until a year ago when they moved to Mt. San Antonio Gardens, Congregational Homes Retirement Community in Pomona, and became members of Claremont Congregational Church.
Martin is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Jane Martin; a son, Dr. Hoyt Martin, South Pasadena; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Atwell, Altadena; and four grandchildren.201,208
• Former Teacher Here Dies [excerpts]
Funeral services for Walter Martin, a former Pasadena City School teacher, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Turner & Stevens Pasadena chapel.
Mr. Martin died yesterday morning in Pomona. He was a native of Rockford, Ill., and with his family moved to Pomona when he was a boy.
He taught in Pasadena City College during World War II because of the shortage of instructors. He retired the second time in 1944 at the age of 70.209
Census
• 1880 Census: Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. Age 5, b IL. Father b IL; mother b NY.210
• 1910 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 35, b IL. Teacher, Polytechnic School. Father b IL; mother b NY.57
• 1920 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 45, b IL. Teacher, High School. Father b IL; mother b NY.58
• 1930 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 55, b IL. Industrial Arts. Father b Canada Eng; mother b NY.211
• 1940 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 65, b IL. Industrial Arts Teacher, Public Schools.212
• 1950 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 75, b IL. Widower. Manager, Bluing Corp.213
• 1910 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 35, b IL. Teacher, Polytechnic School. Father b IL; mother b NY.57
• 1920 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 45, b IL. Teacher, High School. Father b IL; mother b NY.58
• 1930 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 55, b IL. Industrial Arts. Father b Canada Eng; mother b NY.211
• 1940 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 65, b IL. Industrial Arts Teacher, Public Schools.212
• 1950 Census: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Age 75, b IL. Widower. Manager, Bluing Corp.213
Marriageabt 1950, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California230