Martin, J. J. (James John)

J. J. Martin was co-founder of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California, a short-lived cooperative society in Tulare County, California, 1885-1991, which ended when the government denied their claim to the land and established Sequoia National Park. Martin was subsequently a commission salesman in Victoria, British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush, then became involved in an attempt to establish a colony in Tasmania, and later helped organize the Merchant Service Guild of Canada. In the history Martin argues in favor of restitution by the United States Government of the land he believes was stolen from the colony, and compensation for the losses the colony members incurred, while giving a history of the colony as well as his personal history after the colony's breakup.

Siegfried Ameringer, son of Oscar Ameringer, was editor of the "American Guardian."

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