Lots 5 & 6 were sold to Glenn R. Martin on April 11, 1913 for $250 from the Bemidji Townsite Company.
Baptist Bible training class at the home of Glenn R. Martin in Feb 1915. Mrs. Martin was the teacher. Ira D. Alvord, pastor of Baptist church (Feb 6, 1915)
Glenn Roy Martin was a pioneer Bemidji resident. He died at the local hospital following a month’s illness on Sept 26, 1961.
The Martins owned the home for nearly fifty years.
Mr. Martin came to Bemidji in 1906, was employed as a millwright at the Crookston Lumber Company and by the Bagley Manufacturing Co., and Interstate Power Co. before establishing the G. R. Martin & Son mill at Shevlin in 1928. His son, Chester, assumed active management of the mill in 1940 but Mr. Martin continued to go to the mill each day until about six weeks before his death in 1961.
Mrs. Margaret Busse (1964)
Alpha Beta Lambda Fraternity, Klara Marti, James Walk (1967); Mrs. Margaret Busse lived in the rear of the residence.
Rodgers McFarland (1970) (1974) (1978). Rodgers and Marlys McFarland were the owner/operators of the McFarland Cabinet Shop, and later the McFarland Kitchen Center.