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paralysis rendered liim incapable of further active service and an assistant was assigned, who did most of the work. He was obliged to resign in 1823, and having accumulated no prop- erty, the Maryland legislature passed an act re- quiring every lawyer in the btate to pay an an- nual license fee of $5, the entire proceeds to be paid over to trustees " for the use of Luther Martin." When Aaron Burr heard of his poverty he invited him to his home in New York city, where he died. Ho was married in 1783 to a granddaughter of Capt. Michael Cresap, the pioneer accused by Logan, the Indian chief, of murdering his family, and he defended Captain Cresap " from the charge of murder made in Jeflferson's notes," in a pamphlet largely read. He is also the author of General Informa- tion Delivered to the Legislature of the State of Maryland relative to the Proceedings of the Convention held at Philadelphia (1788), and a series of pamphlets entitled Modern Gratitude (1801-02), the result of a personal controversy with Richard Raynol Keene, Princeton, 1796, who had married his daughter Eleanor against his wishes and who vigorously replied to the pamphlets. He developed bibulous habits and it became a common saying that "Martin drunk was abler than any other man sober." He died in New York city, July 10, 1826.

MARTIN, Noah, governor of New Hampshire, was born at Epsom, N.H., July 26, 1801; a descend- ant of the Scotch-Irish settlers of Londonderry, N.H. He was graduated from Dartmouth, M.D., in 1824; and practised with Dr. Graves of Deer- field (a former preceptor) 1824-25, at Great Falls, 1825-34, and at Dover, 1834-63. On Oct. 15, 1825, he was married to Mary J., daughter of Dr. Robert Woodbury of Barrington, N.H. He was a Democratic representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1830, 1832, and 1837, and state senator, 1835-36, and governor of New Hampshire, 1852-54. He was a member of the Strafford District Medical society, 1835-63, and its president, 1841-42; was elected a fellow of the New Hampshire Medical society in 1836, and its president in 1858; was a founder oi: the Dover Medical society and its first president, 1849-50; was a member of the American Medical associa- tion, 1849-63; president of the Strafford county savings bank, 1844-52; director of the Dover bank, 1847-55, and director of the Strafford bank, 1860- 63. He was an incorporator of the New Hamp- shire Agricultural society and its vice-president, 1849-51; was elected a member of the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical society in 1853, and its vice-president in 1855; a member of the New Hampshire Historical society in 1855, and was a trustee of the New Hampshire Reform school, 1855-63. He died in Dover, N.H., May 28, 1863.

MARTIN, Robert Nicols, jurist, was born in Cambridge, Md,, Jan. 14, 1798; son of Judge William Bond Martin. He studied law under his father; practised in Princess Anne, Md,, 1819-27; was a representative in the 19th con- gress, 1825-27, and practised in Baltimore, Md., 1827-45. He was chief-justice of the western judicial district, a judge of the court of appeals, 1845-51, judge of the superior court of Baltimore, 1859-67, and professor of law in the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, 1867-70. He died in Saratoga, N.Y., July 20, 1870.

MARTIN, Samuel Albert, educator, was born in Canonsburg, Pa., Nov. 1, 1853; son of William and Mary (Houston) Martin, and grandson of Samuel and Mary (McAvery) Martin and of David and Margaret (Cowden) Houston. He at- tended Canonsburg academy, and was graduated from Lafayette college, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1880, and from Western Theological seminary in 1879. He studied theology at Edinburgh, Scotland, 1878- 79, and at Princeton, N.J., 1879-80. He was married, Feb. 20, 1881, to Katharine, daughter of the Rev. Thomas C. Porter, D.D., LL.D., of Lafayette. He was pastor of Christ church, Lebanon, Pa., 1881-85; professor of homiletics and librarian at Lincoln university, 1885-95, and was elected president of Wilson college, Cham- bersburg, Pa,, in 1895. He l)ecame a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1899. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Lafayette college in 1892. He is the author of Hie Man of Uz (1890).

MARTIN, Thomas Staples, senator, was born in Scottsville, Va., July 29,1847. He attended the Virginia Military institute and served in the Confederate army, 1864-65, and was a student at the University of Virginia, 1865-67. He read law privately, 1867-69, was admitted to the bar in 1869, and practised in Albemarle county, Va. He was a member of the board of visitors of the Univer- sity of Virginia, and was elected to the U.S. senate in 1895 for the term ending March 3, 1901, and was re-elected in 1900 for the term ending March 3, 1907.

MARTIN, William Alexander Parsons, mis- sionary and sinologue, was born in Livonia, Ind., April 10, 1827; son of the Rev. William Wilson and Susan (Depew) Martin, and grandson of Jacob Alexander Martin, who came to America from Coleraine, Ireland. He was graduated from the Indiana university, 1846, studied, 1846-49, at the Presbyterian Theological seminary, New Al- bany, Ind.; was professor of Latin and Greek there one year and then went as a missionary to China, being stationed at Ningpo, 1850-60. In 1856 he was appointed interpreter for U.S. Min- ister William B, Reed, and was with the latter when he negotiated the treaty with China at