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Martin Read
Wayne County
Martin Read was born in New York, New York, in 1836. He served in Company H of the 8th Iowa Cavalry and rose to the rank of sergeant. In July 1864, he was captured at Newnan, Georgia, and imprisoned at Andersonville Prison. He was mustered out in June 1865 and applied for an invalid pension that December. Read was admitted to the bar in Corydon, Iowa, in 1864. In 1871, he purchased the Corydon Monitor newspaper, which he published for about a year. During his time in Wayne County, he served as county judge, state senator, and clerk of the district court. In 1881, he moved to Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri, where he continued his legal career and served as county attorney. Martin Read died in Princeton, Missouri, in 1914.
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