"From Vol 2 History of Davenport and Scott County" by Harry E. Downer - S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago
A native of Glarus, Switzerland, Bartholme Marti was born February 20, 1820, his parents being Bartholome and Christina Charlotte (Siefermann) Marti. There he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, following that occupation until he was called to serve in the army of 1848. In 1852 he emigrated with his family to America, and after landing at New Orleans ascended the Mississippi to Scott county, which he reached in April. For the first two years after his arrival he worked at his trade and then bought one hundred acres of prairie land in Winfiled township, for which he paid a dollar and a quarter an acre. He built thereon a small house, prepared the fields for cultivation and there lived until the fall of 1855, when he sold it and removed to Davenport, there working at his carpenter's trade during the winter. The following spring he resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land from a Mr. Clawsen, who was a lawyer of this county. The tract was situated on section 28, Winfield township, and only ten acres of it had been broken. With the assistance of his son Chris, Mr. Marti broke the remaining acres, fenced his fields and improved the place which remained his home until 1898, when he came to live with his son on the farm the latter now occupies. In the meantime, however, he had invested in considerable real estate as his income justified the purchase of land, and at one time owned two hundred and forty acres. The last two years of his life were passed at the home of his son, and there he died December 3, 1900. Although not a native of this country, he was loyal to its ideals, ever giving the best of his labor to the development of the state in which he lived and having been elected to the office of school director on the republican ticket, served his township faithfully in that capacity. His wife had preceded him to the grave by some years, for she passed away in 1893 when seventy-one years of age. She was the mother of five children, as follows: Margaret, the wife of Jacob Engler, a retired farmer of Minden, Pottawattamie county, Iowa; Chris; Christina, the wife of William Murrison, of Sheridan township, Scott county; Bartley, who died in 1887; and John M., who is living upon the old homestead in Winfield township.
A native of Glarus, Switzerland, Bartholme Marti was born February 20, 1820, his parents being Bartholome and Christina Charlotte (Siefermann) Marti. There he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, following that occupation until he was called to serve in the army of 1848. In 1852 he emigrated with his family to America, and after landing at New Orleans ascended the Mississippi to Scott county, which he reached in April. For the first two years after his arrival he worked at his trade and then bought one hundred acres of prairie land in Winfiled township, for which he paid a dollar and a quarter an acre. He built thereon a small house, prepared the fields for cultivation and there lived until the fall of 1855, when he sold it and removed to Davenport, there working at his carpenter's trade during the winter. The following spring he resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land from a Mr. Clawsen, who was a lawyer of this county. The tract was situated on section 28, Winfield township, and only ten acres of it had been broken. With the assistance of his son Chris, Mr. Marti broke the remaining acres, fenced his fields and improved the place which remained his home until 1898, when he came to live with his son on the farm the latter now occupies. In the meantime, however, he had invested in considerable real estate as his income justified the purchase of land, and at one time owned two hundred and forty acres. The last two years of his life were passed at the home of his son, and there he died December 3, 1900. Although not a native of this country, he was loyal to its ideals, ever giving the best of his labor to the development of the state in which he lived and having been elected to the office of school director on the republican ticket, served his township faithfully in that capacity. His wife had preceded him to the grave by some years, for she passed away in 1893 when seventy-one years of age. She was the mother of five children, as follows: Margaret, the wife of Jacob Engler, a retired farmer of Minden, Pottawattamie county, Iowa; Chris; Christina, the wife of William Murrison, of Sheridan township, Scott county; Bartley, who died in 1887; and John M., who is living upon the old homestead in Winfield township.
"From Vol 2 History of Davenport and Scott County" by Harry E. Downer - S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago
A native of Glarus, Switzerland, Bartholme Marti was born February 20, 1820, his parents being Bartholome and Christina Charlotte (Siefermann) Marti. There he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, following that occupation until he was called to serve in the army of 1848. In 1852 he emigrated with his family to America, and after landing at New Orleans ascended the Mississippi to Scott county, which he reached in April. For the first two years after his arrival he worked at his trade and then bought one hundred acres of prairie land in Winfiled township, for which he paid a dollar and a quarter an acre. He built thereon a small house, prepared the fields for cultivation and there lived until the fall of 1855, when he sold it and removed to Davenport, there working at his carpenter's trade during the winter. The following spring he resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land from a Mr. Clawsen, who was a lawyer of this county. The tract was situated on section 28, Winfield township, and only ten acres of it had been broken. With the assistance of his son Chris, Mr. Marti broke the remaining acres, fenced his fields and improved the place which remained his home until 1898, when he came to live with his son on the farm the latter now occupies. In the meantime, however, he had invested in considerable real estate as his income justified the purchase of land, and at one time owned two hundred and forty acres. The last two years of his life were passed at the home of his son, and there he died December 3, 1900. Although not a native of this country, he was loyal to its ideals, ever giving the best of his labor to the development of the state in which he lived and having been elected to the office of school director on the republican ticket, served his township faithfully in that capacity. His wife had preceded him to the grave by some years, for she passed away in 1893 when seventy-one years of age. She was the mother of five children, as follows: Margaret, the wife of Jacob Engler, a retired farmer of Minden, Pottawattamie county, Iowa; Chris; Christina, the wife of William Murrison, of Sheridan township, Scott county; Bartley, who died in 1887; and John M., who is living upon the old homestead in Winfield township.
A native of Glarus, Switzerland, Bartholme Marti was born February 20, 1820, his parents being Bartholome and Christina Charlotte (Siefermann) Marti. There he learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, following that occupation until he was called to serve in the army of 1848. In 1852 he emigrated with his family to America, and after landing at New Orleans ascended the Mississippi to Scott county, which he reached in April. For the first two years after his arrival he worked at his trade and then bought one hundred acres of prairie land in Winfiled township, for which he paid a dollar and a quarter an acre. He built thereon a small house, prepared the fields for cultivation and there lived until the fall of 1855, when he sold it and removed to Davenport, there working at his carpenter's trade during the winter. The following spring he resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land from a Mr. Clawsen, who was a lawyer of this county. The tract was situated on section 28, Winfield township, and only ten acres of it had been broken. With the assistance of his son Chris, Mr. Marti broke the remaining acres, fenced his fields and improved the place which remained his home until 1898, when he came to live with his son on the farm the latter now occupies. In the meantime, however, he had invested in considerable real estate as his income justified the purchase of land, and at one time owned two hundred and forty acres. The last two years of his life were passed at the home of his son, and there he died December 3, 1900. Although not a native of this country, he was loyal to its ideals, ever giving the best of his labor to the development of the state in which he lived and having been elected to the office of school director on the republican ticket, served his township faithfully in that capacity. His wife had preceded him to the grave by some years, for she passed away in 1893 when seventy-one years of age. She was the mother of five children, as follows: Margaret, the wife of Jacob Engler, a retired farmer of Minden, Pottawattamie county, Iowa; Chris; Christina, the wife of William Murrison, of Sheridan township, Scott county; Bartley, who died in 1887; and John M., who is living upon the old homestead in Winfield township.
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