Engelsma, Martin J. -- Farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 12, P.O. Pella. Was born on the seventh of March, 1841, in the Netherlands. He came to the United States in 1855 and settled in this county, and enlisted in the late war in August, 1862, in company G, Thirty-third Iowa infantry, and served three years. He was in the battles of Helena, Little Rock, Saline River, Siege of Mobile, and Camden. At the close of the war he returned to this county and engaged in farming. He owns 105 acres of land. He married Miss Gertitude van den Burg on the sixteenth of March, 1871. She was born on the twelfth of October, 1851. He has held the office of school director and holds that of school treasurer.
