OBITUARY: HARVEY A. MARTIN

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

Source: Prosch, Thomas W. "The Pioneer Dead of 1914." The Washington Historical
Quartery, Volume 4, No. 1 (January 1915), p. 18.


Martin, Harvey A. - Born in Danville, Illinois, Dec. 18th, 1840, died in Kelso
Dec. 8th [1914], aged 74 years.  He came to the Territory when a boy.  In 1856
he joined Capt. Hamilton J. G. Maxon's Company of Mounted Volunteers.  At
Vancouver to fight the Indians, serving from Feb. 13th until the company was
disbanded in April, though at the time he was but 15 years of age.