Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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CLARENCE S. MARTIN, 
 
of Pasadena, was born in Brooklyn, New York, February 12, 1852. After a three 
years' course at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, he graduated there, 
and then went to Boston, where he learned the printer's trade. For a time he was 
employed on the Boston Herald, and for another period he was engaged on the 
Congregationalist. After a six years' residence in Boston he was absent a year 
and a half in South America, during which time he visited Peru, Chili and other 
places of note. He returned to Boston, and in 1876 came to California and 
settled in Pasadena. He built the first house east of Fair Oaks avenue, the 
present site of E. C.
Webster's residence. Purchasing twenty acres of land, he stocked it with fruit 
trees, and since then he has operated considerably in real estate. To-day he is 
in possession of a large fortune. He built an elegant residence on Orange Grove 
avenue, costing over $10,000, which he now occupies. He has been a director in 
the San Gabriel Valley Bank ever since its organization; is also a part owner of 
160 acres on Wilson's Peak, the site for the new observatory. He is not at 
present engaged in active business�only attending to his investments. Mr. Martin 
married a daughter of Lucy Gilmore; she died in 1888, and he now lives with his 
mother. Mr. Martin is a genial gentleman, who will always have many friends.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 559
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler