From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 774. City of La Crosse C. D. MARTIN, steamboat captain; has been a resident of La Crosse since May 3, 1855. He was born in Washington Co., Ohio, in 1824; in 1841, he went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and engaged as cabin boy on board a steamboat running on the Ohio River, and has followed steamboating ever since, except when in the army. He was married, in Monroe Co., Ohio, in 1847, to Mary Bradfield, a native of Virginia, and came to La Crosse in 1855. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in the 14th W. V. I., Co. D, and was in the service a year and a half; he was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, which disabled him and he was discharged soon after; he was captain and pilot on the transfer line of the S. M. R. R. Co. eleven years, and now owns the steamboat Silver Lake, running on the Mississippi River, and on which his only son, Melvin Martin, is first engineer. His father, Alexander Martin, a native of Ohio, and a soldier in the war of 1812, is still living in Gallipolis, Ohio, in the 92d year of his age. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]