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HENRY C. MARTIN
Vol. 3 p. 1037-1038

An alert, popular and progressive young man who is closely concerned
with important public utility and industrial interests in Oklahoma,
Henry C. Martin is advertising manager for the various and extensive
corporations of which Anton H. Classen is the executive head, and is
also private secretary to Mr. Classen, president of each of the
following named corporations, for all of which Mr. Martin has charge
of the advertising or publicity departments: The Oklahoma Railway
Company, the Classen Realty Company, the Oklahoma Electric Terminal
Company, and the Belle Isle Improvement Company, the office
headquarters of all of which are in the fine Terminal Building in the
City of Oklahoma.

Henry C. Martin is a scion of find old southern families and in the
distaff line is a descendant of William Henry Harrison, a member of a
distinguished old family whose name was prominently identified with
the annals of Virginia history for several generations as the name
later having been one of prominence and influence in the State of
Tennessee, where the mother of Mr. Martin was born and reared. Henry
C. Martin was born in Lincoln, Talladega County, Alabama, on the 15th
of March, 1884, and is a son of Thomas B. and Catherine A. (HARRISON)
Martin, the father having been a prosperous planter and slave-holder
prior to the Civil war. He whose name initiates this review acquired
his early education in the public schools of his native state and
supplemented this discipline by a thorough course in the celebrated
Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which institution he
was graduated as a member of the class of 1904, with a degree of
Bachelor of Science, and in which he completed also a full commercial
course. After his graduation Mr. Martin went to Marshall, Texas,
where he served five months as court reporter. He then went to
Austin, capital of that state, where he held the position of
committee clerk during the session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature.
From Austin he went to Havre, Montana, where for five months he held
the position of assistant chief dispatcher of the Montana division of
the Great Northern Railroad. He was then transferred to the general
offices of the company, in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he remained one
year. He then entered the service of the General Electric Company at
Minneapolis, that state, but a few months later he resigned his
position to accept one with the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, with
offices in Minneapolis. With this representative public utility
corporation of the two great cities of Minnesota he continued until
1909, when on the 15th of March of that year, his twenty-fifth
birthday anniversary, he accepted his present responsible post in the
City of Oklahoma. Within the intervening period he has in the fullest
sense justified the estimate of confidence placed upon him by Mr.
Classen, who is one of the leading capitalists and most progressive
citizens of Oklahoma, and by other interested principals of the
various important companies which he represents. Apropos of his
services the following merited estimate has been made: "In the
discharge of his varied duties he has not only exhibited industry and
adaptability, but also efficiency and initiative ability of the
highest order, loyalty to his work and unvarying courtesy and tact.
In addition to the exacting demands thus placed upon him Mr. Martin
has found time and opportunity to identify himself with varied social
and business organizations the good fellowship of those members it is
always well for such vast public service interests as are represented
by Mr. Martin to enjoy. A charter member of the Oklahoma City
Advertising Club, which came into prominence in 1909 and which has
been a potent force in the furtherance of civic and material progress
and prosperity in the capital city of the State, Mr. Martin served
most effectively as secretary of the club from 1910 to 1912,
inclusive, and was for four years a member of its board of directors.
Up to 1913 he accompanied representatives of this club to all
conventions of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World,
including those held at Kansas City, Omaha, Boston and Dallas, and in
1911 he was treasurer and a director of the Southwestern Division of
the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World."

In 1912 Mr. Martin effected the organization of the Oklahoma Boat
Club, of which he has been president from the inception and in the
splendid achievement of which he has been a dominating force,
especially in the building of the attractive club house at Belle Isle
Park, his enthusiasm in this connection having been instrumental in
encouraging the wonderful growth and popularity of all manner of
aquatic sports in the section of the state lying tributary of
Oklahoma City. They development of beautiful Belle Isle into on of
the finest and most popular pleasure resorts in the West has been due
in large measure to his admirable initiative and executive ability
and untiring efforts. He is all that is loyal and progressive in his
civic attitude and is an enthusiast in the legitimate exploiting of
the manifold advantages and attractions of the city and state of his
adoption. He is a valued factor in connection with general business
and industrial activities and both he and his wife are popular
figures in the r representative social life of Oklahoma's Capital
city and metropolis.

In the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the 11th of March, 1910,
was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Martin to Miss Minnie DOAN,
daughter of Henry C. and Laura (MOORE) Doan, the former of whom was
born in the Dominion of Canada and the latter in the State of Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin have two children---Howard Burdette, born August
11, 1911; and Minnie Bernice, born December 27m 1912.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, November 20, 1998.