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January 1920 for the Census. Eleven months after that his daughter Ellen died on December 6, 1920. After Ellen's death, Martin's family life "fell apart" and he and a fellow artist, Jack Bechdolt, hit the road as "Soldiers of Fortune". June was shipped off to Oakland, California, where she joined her grandparents.
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Martin was born and grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of John Finley Dair Martin and
Elizabeth "Lizzie" L. Brown, one of three children. His father moved the family to Minneapolis Minnesota about 1897. He married his first wife Lydia Mary Garrison when he was 26, on August 2, 1909, in Victoria,
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Lucinda Davidson, and they had twin girls Ellen Jane Martin and June Dair Martin, born May 14, 1916. Cora died from tuberculosis fifteen months later on August 3, 1917, in Spokane, Washington. Benjamin continued living in Seattle, with an aunt, Pleiades Martin, and raising
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In 1930, Brown reported to the federal census that he was living as a roomer in New York, working as a commercial artist. He spent the last years of his life as a hobo, according to his grandson, and died in 1932 in
Bloomington, Illinois. The death certificate there listed him as a sign painter.
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again. Ben and his friend Jack, hit the road again, leaving his daughter June in the care of his father. The state eventually decided to "take June out of circumstances and sent her to the Hope Farm school" Verbank, New York, about 1927. They never reunited.
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Illustration of S. R. Hutchinson, superintendent of the
Seattle Lighting Company in 1915 by Benjamin B. Brown, Seattle Daily Times, February 14, 1915.
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Caricature of Benjamin B. Martin as a pirate. Members of the Seattle Artists club drew themselves in this manner, alongside the serious and famous
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125:(1883 – 1932) was an artist. He made his living in Seattle, Washington, where he worked as an illustrator for the
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An illustration by Benjamin B. Martin, framing a portrait of Albert J. Rhodes (Seattle businessman) from the book
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The Cartoon; A Reference Book of Seattle's Successful Men
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