CHRISTOPHER MARTI
A native of Switzerland, he was born May 27, 1845, his parents being Bartholomew and Anna Barbara (Slagel) Marti. Mr. Marti attended school in Switzerland for three months before the removal of the family to America, and after arriving in Scott County he was enrolled as a pupil in the district schools near his home. Not all of his time was given to the preparation of lessons, however, for he assisted his father in breaking the land and improving the farm he had purchased and later in cultivating the fields, so that, at the age of twenty-two years, he was well prepared to engage in farming on his own account. Upon leaving the parental roof, with the assistance of his father he bought a tract of one hundred acres on section 16, Sheridan Township. Mr. Marti made whatever improvements were necessary and lived thereon until 1869, when he disposed of that place and bought the farm on section 33. Later he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining the homestead, making a total of two hundred and forty acres he owns in Scott County. Mr. Marti has been twice married. On the 13th of December, 1866, he wedded Miss Ellen Madden. Of this union there were four children. Mrs. Ellen Marti died in July, 1900, and he later married Miss Evelyn Williamson. He served as clerk of Winfield Township for four years, in 1872 was elected secretary of the school board of the independent district of Winfield, and in 1889 was elected to the Twenty-third General Assembly at Des Moines, Iowa. He was reelected to the Twenty-fourth Assembly, did not serve in the Twenty-fifth, but returned to the Twenty-sixth. He also served in the call session summoned by Governor Drake. In 1898, he was nominated upon the democratic ticket for state senator but was defeated by W. E. Hayward. Mr. Marti voted for Governor Cummins the first time he was the candidate for state executive and has since voted with the Republican Party. Fraternally he belonged to the Long Grove Camp of the Woodmen of the World and to the Modern Brotherhood of America at Eldridge, where he maintained an intimate association with his follow agriculturists through his membership in the Sheridan Grange. His religious support is given to the Christian Church of Long Grove, of which he was a trustee. The salient traits of his character are energy, perseverance and the capacity to work, united with high ideals of honorable manhood and progressive citizenship. Mr. Marti died January 19, 1936, at Long Grove, Iowa.
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