Patrick Martin of Liberal, KS Sally Martin Odom of Yukon, OK Joseph Martin of League City, TX and Mike Martin of Fairway, KS.
To this marriage were born five children: Sara Martin of Vancouver, WA J. In February of 1950 he married Sally Foster on his 21st birthday. He was a life member of VFW Post 3166 and a 69 year member of Sgt. He was an Army veteran of World War II and an Air Force veteran of the Korean conflict. He was a graduate of Bradley University School of Horology, a member of the American Gemological Society, and a Fellow of the Gemological Association of Great Britain. He moved from Nebraska to Liberal, Kansas, in 1962, where he was associated with Collins Diamonds for 35 years. He was a graduate of Pawnee City High School class of 1946. He was born on February 17, 1929, in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the son of Carl Martin and Sarah Bauer Martin. Martin, 91, of Liberal, died on September 3, 2020, at his home. Westlake Hall, a building on the Bradley campus, was previously known as Horology Hall.John F. The school’s horological department, which closed in 1961, graduated 11,000 students in just over 60 years who were tutored in the art of making timepieces. While the Peoria Watch had its day, watchmaking lived on in Peoria at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute (as Bradley University was known when it opened in 1897). “Some of the watches produced by the Peoria Watch Co. The company closed in 1888 after having produced some 40,000 watches, said Gossard, who owns several of the historic timepieces, himself. The firm’s secretary was arrested for embezzling and the daily production of watches had fallen to 20 a day, a far cry from the 1,400 watches being produced each day by Elgin, the largest watch company at the time, said Gossard. Lydia Moss Bradley, founder of Bradley University, invested $250,000 in the company, the equivalent of $8 million in today’s currency, allowing the firm to build a three-story building in Peoria.īut two years later, the Peoria Watch Co. Wristwatches wouldn’t catch on with the public until the World War I era, said Gossard. immediately distinguished itself with its claim as “the only anti-magnetic watch manufactured in this country.” That was an important attribute for those working in the railway business booming at the time.Īdvertised as the official watch of the Santa Fe Railway, the ad line was “any railroad man who has ever used ‘the Peoria watch’ will never use another.” The watches in question, of course, were pocket watches. Despite all the moves, the Peoria Watch Co. The Bloomington-based Gossard detailed how the company came to locate in Peoria in 1886 after stops in Newark, N.J., Chicago, San Francisco and Fredonia, N.Y.
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often gets lost in time.īut, during an admittedly brief period-from 1886 to 1888-the company produced one of the finest and most innovative timepieces in the country, noted historian Steve Gossard on WCBU’s “Postmark Peoria” series with Steve Tarter. When looking back on Peoria’s rich manufacturing past, tractors and whiskey tend to get most of the attention while the Peoria Watch Co.
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