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- Named for the eighth president of the United States, Martin VanBuren was born on the family farm in Utica Township, Winona County, Minnesota, about 2-3/4 miles straight south of the town of Lewiston, and the third of eleven children born to Peter Frederick and Catherine Mary (née FERCIOT) ERB.
Peter was from a thicket of Erbs in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, while Catherine was born in New York to newly immigrated parents from Doubs in east-central France. George and Elizabeth (née STOKEY) FERCIOT made their way to Wood County, Ohio, and resided there for the rest of their lives. Catherine was living with her parents in Center Township, Wood County, in 1850, and was soon married to Peter (c.1851/52).
Peter and Catherine, and two sons (who were born in Ohio), George Washington (b.1853-1931?) and John Adams (b.1855-1926; +Elizabeth YORKE), homesteaded somewhere in the state of Indiana in circa 1856.
The family then homesteaded in Utica Township, Winona County, Minnesota, purchasing 160 acres (NW 1/4 s35-106n-09w) from a Timothy Kirk on 04 APR 1857, just 2-1/2 miles straight south from the town of Lewiston. They later added another adjoining 160 acres by filing a U.S. Federal Land Patent (NE 1/4 s35-106n-09w) on 10 AUG 1859.
Martin's eight other siblings where born on this farm:
4) William Morris (1859-1923; +Katie Monica EGAN; +Susanna LONERGAN)
5) Elizabeth (1861-1925; +Carlos Howard "Carl" CRUMB )
6) Edna (1863-1954; +Aden Stevens PRATT)
7) Enoch J. (1866-1929; +Georgia LABEE/SMITH; +Nettie R. COLUMBIA)
8) Peter Frederick (1867-1943; +Annie E. Sterner ROBERTSON)
9) Jacob Edward (1872-1927; +Isadora Jane "Dora" FURLONG)
10) Elias C. (1870-????)
11) Emma L. (1875-1900)
After selling small parcels of their property in Winona County between 1867 and 1874, they sold the remainder of their farm in 1878 (the bulk of which was to Timothy Ronan in September of that year).
From 1878 until sometime prior to 1885 the family lived in New Richland Township, Waseca County, Minnesota.
Peter & Catherine (and most of the children) then settled in Dows Township, Cass County, North Dakota, purchasing 160 acres (NE 1/4 s8-143n-53w). Peter died 29 JUL 1887 -- Galesburg, Traill County, North Dakota.
Martin V. married Sophia Elizabeth SAYER, daughter of Joseph (b.1826 in Norfolk, England) and Nancy A. (née STREETER; a native of Pennsylvania) in 1885. The were married for 53 years until his death.
Martin filed a U.S. Federal Land Patent (FLP) for 160-acres in Section 20, Township 143-North, Range 53-West, in Cass County, North Dakota on 12 OCT 1886. On 30 JAN 1891, he filed a second FLP for SW 160-acres of Section 20, Township 144-N, Range 53-W, in Traill County, ND.
After Martin's father died his mother first lived with his brother Elias and sister Emma, but after selling her farm, came to live with Sophia and him on their farm sometime after 1900, but prior to the 1910 USFC.
In 1913, Martin and Sophia then sold their farm and moved to sunny Southern California, residing at 601 North Milton Avenue in Whittier (where Martin continued to farm until 1922 and then retired) until both of their deaths, while Catherine lived at 1221 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles.
Martin VanBuren Erb died of chronic myocarditis at his home on 601 N. Milton and was interned on 20 APR 1938.
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1857 - 1938 (81 years)
