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MARTIN REDDICK, farmer, P. O. Marathon, a native of Clermont County, Ohio, was born January 22, 1812, and is a son of Richard and Mary Miller Reddick who came to Ohio about the year 1800. His days were spent on a farm until sixteen years old, when he went to Cincinnati and drove team nine years. He was married March 23, 1837, to Matilda, daughter of William and Catharine Nitzer, who was born March 30, 1812, in Essex County, N. J., and came to Ohio with her parents when five years old. Mr. Reddick and wife raised eight children - Richard R., married Esther Cramer; Emily Jane, wife of P. P. Applegate; William M., married Mary Jane Birsall; Elisha, married Sarah Reed; Theodore married Evaline Boose; Mary Elsie, wife of Abram Liming; Maria Louisa, wife of Alexander Work; and Hannah A., wife of Walter Gordon. Mr. Reddick bought the farm where he now resides in 1839 and moved on it. Besides his own family, he has raised three orphan children. His boys made the following honorable record during the war of the rebellion. Richard Reddick was in the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; William in the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and went with Sherman to the sea; and Elisha was in the Forty-eighth and wounded at Shiloh, in three places. Mr. Reddick is an old school Democrat and served in the capacity of Supervisor and School Director for some time.