Marcus was a farmer, Democrat, and a member of the Universalist Church, and a selectman for many years. Like his brother David, he did not like lodges. He died in his home at Williamstown, Vermont.
Marcus was a strong, well-built man, weighing about 160 pounds, and as a young man handled steel chains in hard wintertime barehanded. Like his brother David he had no more than the village school’s education, but schools then gave some knowledge of the elementary sciences as “natural philosophy” and chemistry. He took his father’s farm; his son Neal farmed it later. He took care of his parents until their deaths.
He was a conservative, hardworking farmer and an intelligent, faithful town officer. He was, among other things, a cemetery commissioner. Like his brother Dudley, Marcus enjoyed social life. He was an excellent dramatic actor, and he sang in the church choir. He sang, too, at funerals almost all his life. He was outside the state of Vermont only twice in all his life; once to the nation’s Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, and the other to Melrose, Massachusetts to visit his son Orren. The early death of his wife (of consumption [tuberculosis] in 1879) left him with two small children and an aged mother.
Marcus’ last day of life was spent vigorously sowing grain on the hillside, in spite of his heart problem. That evening he prepared the kitchen fire to be ready for firing the next morning, singing southern melodies as he built that fire. Then, the next morning he did not get up as early as usual; which was usually very early. So his son Neal checked and found him dead, lying in a position scarcely moved from where it lay the night before. His body was still warm when Neal found him. He and his brothers all lived long, active lives, and then died quickly, exactly as they had wanted. Dr. E. B. Watson wrote, “The same inherent mental and physical vigor manifested themselves in him as existed in the rest of THIS WONDERFUL Martin family.”
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Marcus was a strong, well-built man, weighing about 160 pounds, and as a young man handled steel chains in hard wintertime barehanded. Like his brother David he had no more than the village school’s education, but schools then gave some knowledge of the elementary sciences as “natural philosophy” and chemistry. He took his father’s farm; his son Neal farmed it later. He took care of his parents until their deaths.
He was a conservative, hardworking farmer and an intelligent, faithful town officer. He was, among other things, a cemetery commissioner. Like his brother Dudley, Marcus enjoyed social life. He was an excellent dramatic actor, and he sang in the church choir. He sang, too, at funerals almost all his life. He was outside the state of Vermont only twice in all his life; once to the nation’s Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, and the other to Melrose, Massachusetts to visit his son Orren. The early death of his wife (of consumption [tuberculosis] in 1879) left him with two small children and an aged mother.
Marcus’ last day of life was spent vigorously sowing grain on the hillside, in spite of his heart problem. That evening he prepared the kitchen fire to be ready for firing the next morning, singing southern melodies as he built that fire. Then, the next morning he did not get up as early as usual; which was usually very early. So his son Neal checked and found him dead, lying in a position scarcely moved from where it lay the night before. His body was still warm when Neal found him. He and his brothers all lived long, active lives, and then died quickly, exactly as they had wanted. Dr. E. B. Watson wrote, “The same inherent mental and physical vigor manifested themselves in him as existed in the rest of THIS WONDERFUL Martin family.”
Bio submitted by Nebord
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Marcus was a farmer, Democrat, and a member of the Universalist Church, and a selectman for many years. Like his brother David, he did not like lodges. He died in his home at Williamstown, Vermont.
Marcus was a strong, well-built man, weighing about 160 pounds, and as a young man handled steel chains in hard wintertime barehanded. Like his brother David he had no more than the village school’s education, but schools then gave some knowledge of the elementary sciences as “natural philosophy” and chemistry. He took his father’s farm; his son Neal farmed it later. He took care of his parents until their deaths.
He was a conservative, hardworking farmer and an intelligent, faithful town officer. He was, among other things, a cemetery commissioner. Like his brother Dudley, Marcus enjoyed social life. He was an excellent dramatic actor, and he sang in the church choir. He sang, too, at funerals almost all his life. He was outside the state of Vermont only twice in all his life; once to the nation’s Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, and the other to Melrose, Massachusetts to visit his son Orren. The early death of his wife (of consumption [tuberculosis] in 1879) left him with two small children and an aged mother.
Marcus’ last day of life was spent vigorously sowing grain on the hillside, in spite of his heart problem. That evening he prepared the kitchen fire to be ready for firing the next morning, singing southern melodies as he built that fire. Then, the next morning he did not get up as early as usual; which was usually very early. So his son Neal checked and found him dead, lying in a position scarcely moved from where it lay the night before. His body was still warm when Neal found him. He and his brothers all lived long, active lives, and then died quickly, exactly as they had wanted. Dr. E. B. Watson wrote, “The same inherent mental and physical vigor manifested themselves in him as existed in the rest of THIS WONDERFUL Martin family.”
Bio submitted by Nebord
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Marcus was a strong, well-built man, weighing about 160 pounds, and as a young man handled steel chains in hard wintertime barehanded. Like his brother David he had no more than the village school’s education, but schools then gave some knowledge of the elementary sciences as “natural philosophy” and chemistry. He took his father’s farm; his son Neal farmed it later. He took care of his parents until their deaths.
He was a conservative, hardworking farmer and an intelligent, faithful town officer. He was, among other things, a cemetery commissioner. Like his brother Dudley, Marcus enjoyed social life. He was an excellent dramatic actor, and he sang in the church choir. He sang, too, at funerals almost all his life. He was outside the state of Vermont only twice in all his life; once to the nation’s Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, and the other to Melrose, Massachusetts to visit his son Orren. The early death of his wife (of consumption [tuberculosis] in 1879) left him with two small children and an aged mother.
Marcus’ last day of life was spent vigorously sowing grain on the hillside, in spite of his heart problem. That evening he prepared the kitchen fire to be ready for firing the next morning, singing southern melodies as he built that fire. Then, the next morning he did not get up as early as usual; which was usually very early. So his son Neal checked and found him dead, lying in a position scarcely moved from where it lay the night before. His body was still warm when Neal found him. He and his brothers all lived long, active lives, and then died quickly, exactly as they had wanted. Dr. E. B. Watson wrote, “The same inherent mental and physical vigor manifested themselves in him as existed in the rest of THIS WONDERFUL Martin family.”
Bio submitted by Nebord
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