Martin McCaslin

    Martin McCaslin's a native Hoosier, was born in Marion County, October 20, 1843, and is the second in a family of six children born to George and Hannah (Martindale) McCaslin, natives respectively of Ohio and Indiana. George McCaslin was one of the pioneers of Marion County, locating there as early as 1830, and being a millwright by trade, erected some of the first mills on White River. He and wife are living in Marion County on a farm, a few miles from the State capital.

    For thirty years, Martin McCaslin lived on the farm where he was born. Receiving but a limited education in youth, he began for himself at twenty years of age, and until 1873 had charge of the home farm. June 11, 1873, he was married to Lydia a. Nelson, and in November of the same year moved to Fowler, which has since been his home. Mr. McCaslin is a Democrat, and to him and wife two children have been born -Carl and Paul.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.