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This photo of Archie Martin was taken in Georgia before he and his wife Nancy moved to Ames in 1915. He became one of a handful of prominent black cictizens of the town. (See article "Early African-American Families of Ames" in the Winter 1990-91 issue of "The Ames Intelligencer" (newsletter of the Ames Heritage Association). Archie A. Martin was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 15, 1857. He married Nancy in 1886 in Austell, Georgia. Archie Martin was employed by the Chicago and North Western Railroad until he retired in 1932. He was a member of the First Methodist Church in Ames. Nancy Martin died in 1947, five days short of her 92nd birthday. Archie Martin lived to be 102 years old, dying on February 29, 1960, in his home at 218 Lincoln Way in Ames. His survivors included four sons, one daughter, thirty-two grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.