" He made his debut in the business world when quite young carrying messages for Western Union and learned telegraphy on the side, worked as a telegraph operator eight years, then with the America Telephone and Telegraph Company as a testboard man until his retirement in 1953." ---Meriwether, p. 68.
Sources
Bernhard Martin and His Descendants: Genealogical Records of the Descendants of Bernhard Martin to 1962. Agnes Immele Meriwether, Columbia, MO, 1962.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William: