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MARTIN BROOKS, editor of the Mount SterlingExaminer, was born in Jacksonville, in 1836. His father, Samuel S.,came from Connecticut, of Scotch ancestry.Martin commenced very young to learn thetrade of printer, and was employed in different places, until 1863, whenhe came to Mount Sterling, and with his brother Samuel bought the officeand good will of the Mount Sterling Union, a weekly paper, and changedthe name to the Mount Sterling Record. He was elected Circuit Clerkin 1864, and served eight years, and then bought an interest in the MountSterling Message, and two years later sold out, and was clerking inthe courthouse for a time. In 1879 he bought the furniture and lease ofthe Lambert House, and kept hotel two years, and then resumed clerkingin the courthouse. In 1883, he was elected Police Magistrate, and servedtwo terms. In the meantime, with George S. Campbell he bought the MountSterling Examiner, and has been its editor ever since.
He was married in 1867, to Sophia S. Price,of Brown county, who died in 1869. In 1872 he was married to Nannie Kendrick.
He has two daughters by his second marriage:Mabel Claire and Bernice A. He belongs to Hardin Lodge, No. 44, A. F. &A. M., is a Democrat, and he and his wife belong to the Christian Church.
Biographical Review of Cass, Schuylerand Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review Publishing Co., Chicago,1892, page 164.
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