The subject of this sketch is a native son of Marion county, Illinois,
and a representative of one of its sterling and honored families. He is
known as a young man of fine intellectuality and marked business acumen. He
is cashier of the Salem National Bank, one of the most substantial
institutions of its kind in the part of the state.
John C. Martin
was born in Salem April 29, 1880, the son of B. E. Martin, Sr., a sketch of
whom appears upon another page of this volume.
Our subject attended
the schools of Salem in his early youth where he applied himself in a most
assiduous manner, having made excellent records for scholarship and general
deportment, and as a result of his well applied time to his text-books he
received a good education which has subsequently been broadened and deepened
by contact with the world and systematic home study. After finishing the
prescribed course in the home schools he spent two years at Jacksonville,
Illinois, one year at the Jacksonville College, and one at Brown's Business
College, having stood high in his classes in each.
At the early age
of twenty-eight years, a period when most men are just launching into a
career or tentatively investigating the world that lies before them in order
to test their potential powers, Mr. Martin had already shown that he is a
man of marked executive and business ability. He assumed the responsible and
exacting position of cashier of the Salem National Bank in April 1907, whose
duties he is faithfully performing to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned. He is a stockholder in this institution, which is popular with
all classes of business men in Salem and throughout Marion county, where it
has long maintained a firm reputation for soundness owing to its carful
management and the unquestioned integrity and scrupulously honest characters
of the gentleman who have it under control.
Fraternally Mr. Martin is
a loyal member of the Masonic Order, the Woodmen and the Fraternal Order of
Eagles. The daily life of the subject would indicate that he believes in
carrying out the noble precepts of these praiseworthy orders.
Extracted 10 Jul 2017 by Norma Hass from 1909 Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland, Clay and Marion Counties, Illinois, page 87.