Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameRiley Paddock MARTIN 
Memonear Ashton
Death18 Nov 1954, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois1001 Age: 91
BurialGreenwood Cemetery, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois
ResidenceEvanston, Illinois; Rockford (>1902)1012
OccupationReporter, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Record-Herald1010
Education1Northwestern University, 18901012
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherMoses DeWitt MARTIN (1835-1911)
MotherBurella Jane PADDOCK (1836-1928)
Individual Notes
• Mr. Martin left the newspaper business shortly before world war 1 and became associated with the Y. M. C. A. While working with the “Y,” he made a trip to Europe and two to Panama. Since he retired in Rockford, he had been writing a family history and a history of his class at Northwestern. He was a member of Court Street Methodist Church.1010
• Raised in Ashton, Rockford, Flagg -- Illinois.
worked on family farm in Cherokee Co., Iowa
Evanston: prep. dept. Northwester Univ. 1884-1886
Northwestern Univ. 1886-1890
graduate work until 1893
22 years as newspaper reporter and editor, Chicago and Evanston
Chicago Tribune 4 years c.[1893-1897]
Chicago Record Herald 15 yrs. c.[1897-1912]
Evanston weekly: editor
YMCA work: mid-1910s on.918, p 2
• Riley willed his Journal to his nephew, Dale L. Martin, I.135, p 35
• Raised in Ashton, Rockford, Flagg -- Illinois.
worked on family farm in Cherokee Co., Iowa
Evanston: prep. dept. Northwester Univ. 1884-1886
Northwestern Univ. 1886-1890
graduate work until 1893
22 years as newspaper reporter and editor, Chicago and Evanston
Chicago Tribune 4 years c.[1893-1897]
Chicago Record Herald 15 yrs. c.[1897-1912]
Evanston weekly: editor
YMCA work: mid-1910s on.918, p 2
• Riley willed his Journal to his nephew, Dale L. Martin, I.135, p 35
Census Data
• 1870 Census: Ashton, Lee, Illinois. Age 7, b IL.1695
• 1880 Census: Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. Age 16, b IL. Boarder. Parents b IL. Living with Philetus Martin family.1709
• 1930 Census: Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. Age 66, b IL. Single. Father b Canada Eng; mother b IN.4943
• 1880 Census: Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. Age 16, b IL. Boarder. Parents b IL. Living with Philetus Martin family.1709
• 1930 Census: Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois. Age 66, b IL. Single. Father b Canada Eng; mother b IN.4943
Military
• Hospital orderly, Paris; 1916-1917.
YMCA, France; 1918-1919.918, p 2
YMCA, France; 1918-1919.918, p 2