John Martineau and Eliza Mears
John Martineau was of Huguenot descent, his ancestors fled from France to America in the Seventeenth Century in order to gain religious freedom.John went to England when he was nineteen to study medicine, but after returning to New York, took up the profession of civil engineer and became noted in that field. He was a successful engineer who accumulated a fortune in building bridges and waterworks, for large cities and railroads. He suffered significant financial losses in the Panic of 1837 losing over $70,000.The first wife of John Martineau was from England. She was the grand daughter of the Earl of Stanhope. They had four children, his wife and two children died about 1822 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1824 he married a girl seventeen years of age, Eliza Mears of Baltimore, Maryland. Four years later a son was born who was named James Henry.
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