Mr. Martin was reared a farmer boy and remained at the parental home until past his majority. He finished his literary education at the Southern Illinois Normal University and spent nine years in the school room as a teacher of country and village schools, his final work in that line being as principal of the schools at Ullin, Illinois. This, however, he made an initial step to other professional labor, for he had decided to take up law, and to this end he began a course of reading under Judge Wall, of Mound City. Later he became a student in the law department of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, and was graduated from that institution in 1893. He was admitted to the bar by supreme court examination in August of his graduation year, and at once began the active practice of his profession in Mound City. He subsequently entered into partnership with his former preceptor under the firm style of Wall & Martin, which relation continues to the present time. Possessing all the requisite qualities of an able lawyer, Mr. Martin has from the time of his admission to the bar continued in practice in Mound City, his labors accompanied by a success that has gained for him a place among the representative members of the Pulaski county bar.
He is a Republican in politics, and as such was elected to represent the Fifty-first assembly district in the Forty-first General Assembly of Illinois, his district comprising the counties of Pulaski, Johnson, Massac, Pope and Saline. His service in that body was marked for its vigorous and careful application to the interests of his State and his constituency, and the standing which he held among his colleagues in the Assembly was attested by his important committee duties. He was made chairman of the committee on judicial department and practice, and served as a member of the committee on elections, the judiciary and insurance committees, and the committee to visit state institutions. He was also a constructive legislator, having secured the passage of a law increasing the term of school one month, thus requiring a term of not less than six months each year instead of five months in all public schools of the state. This one accomplishment alone entitles him to rank as one of his state's greatest benefactors, for the law's good results are beyond measure.
In 1900 Mr. Martin was elected state's attorney of Pulaski county, and in 1904 was re-elected to that office. He was renominated without opposition in 1908, but resigned the nomination, and has since devoted his attention to the private practice of law, though at the present time he is city attorney of Mound City. He is a prominent worker in his party and has served as a delegate to different Republican county, congressional and state conventions.
On December 24, 1895, at Mound City, Mr. Martin married Miss Ada L. Read, a daughter of I. W. Read, a veteran Union soldier from middle Tennessee. They have one son, Russell Read, born in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Mound City.
Mr. Martin is a director of the Mound City Building and Loan Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He represented his lodge of the last named order at a special head Camp meeting in Chicago in 1912, and prior to that, or in 1911, had served as a delegate to the Head Camp at Buffalo, New York.
As a lawyer Mr. Martin is enterprising, able and upright, a careful and conscientious counsel and advisor, a strong advocate, and an honor to the profession; his official career was marked for its fidelity to public interest; and as a citizen he stands in the highest repute.
"A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume v.2)"by George Washington Smith.
He is a Republican in politics, and as such was elected to represent the Fifty-first assembly district in the Forty-first General Assembly of Illinois, his district comprising the counties of Pulaski, Johnson, Massac, Pope and Saline. His service in that body was marked for its vigorous and careful application to the interests of his State and his constituency, and the standing which he held among his colleagues in the Assembly was attested by his important committee duties. He was made chairman of the committee on judicial department and practice, and served as a member of the committee on elections, the judiciary and insurance committees, and the committee to visit state institutions. He was also a constructive legislator, having secured the passage of a law increasing the term of school one month, thus requiring a term of not less than six months each year instead of five months in all public schools of the state. This one accomplishment alone entitles him to rank as one of his state's greatest benefactors, for the law's good results are beyond measure.
In 1900 Mr. Martin was elected state's attorney of Pulaski county, and in 1904 was re-elected to that office. He was renominated without opposition in 1908, but resigned the nomination, and has since devoted his attention to the private practice of law, though at the present time he is city attorney of Mound City. He is a prominent worker in his party and has served as a delegate to different Republican county, congressional and state conventions.
On December 24, 1895, at Mound City, Mr. Martin married Miss Ada L. Read, a daughter of I. W. Read, a veteran Union soldier from middle Tennessee. They have one son, Russell Read, born in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Mound City.
Mr. Martin is a director of the Mound City Building and Loan Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He represented his lodge of the last named order at a special head Camp meeting in Chicago in 1912, and prior to that, or in 1911, had served as a delegate to the Head Camp at Buffalo, New York.
As a lawyer Mr. Martin is enterprising, able and upright, a careful and conscientious counsel and advisor, a strong advocate, and an honor to the profession; his official career was marked for its fidelity to public interest; and as a citizen he stands in the highest repute.
"A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume v.2)"by George Washington Smith.
Mr. Martin was reared a farmer boy and remained at the parental home until past his majority. He finished his literary education at the Southern Illinois Normal University and spent nine years in the school room as a teacher of country and village schools, his final work in that line being as principal of the schools at Ullin, Illinois. This, however, he made an initial step to other professional labor, for he had decided to take up law, and to this end he began a course of reading under Judge Wall, of Mound City. Later he became a student in the law department of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, and was graduated from that institution in 1893. He was admitted to the bar by supreme court examination in August of his graduation year, and at once began the active practice of his profession in Mound City. He subsequently entered into partnership with his former preceptor under the firm style of Wall & Martin, which relation continues to the present time. Possessing all the requisite qualities of an able lawyer, Mr. Martin has from the time of his admission to the bar continued in practice in Mound City, his labors accompanied by a success that has gained for him a place among the representative members of the Pulaski county bar.
He is a Republican in politics, and as such was elected to represent the Fifty-first assembly district in the Forty-first General Assembly of Illinois, his district comprising the counties of Pulaski, Johnson, Massac, Pope and Saline. His service in that body was marked for its vigorous and careful application to the interests of his State and his constituency, and the standing which he held among his colleagues in the Assembly was attested by his important committee duties. He was made chairman of the committee on judicial department and practice, and served as a member of the committee on elections, the judiciary and insurance committees, and the committee to visit state institutions. He was also a constructive legislator, having secured the passage of a law increasing the term of school one month, thus requiring a term of not less than six months each year instead of five months in all public schools of the state. This one accomplishment alone entitles him to rank as one of his state's greatest benefactors, for the law's good results are beyond measure.
In 1900 Mr. Martin was elected state's attorney of Pulaski county, and in 1904 was re-elected to that office. He was renominated without opposition in 1908, but resigned the nomination, and has since devoted his attention to the private practice of law, though at the present time he is city attorney of Mound City. He is a prominent worker in his party and has served as a delegate to different Republican county, congressional and state conventions.
On December 24, 1895, at Mound City, Mr. Martin married Miss Ada L. Read, a daughter of I. W. Read, a veteran Union soldier from middle Tennessee. They have one son, Russell Read, born in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Mound City.
Mr. Martin is a director of the Mound City Building and Loan Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He represented his lodge of the last named order at a special head Camp meeting in Chicago in 1912, and prior to that, or in 1911, had served as a delegate to the Head Camp at Buffalo, New York.
As a lawyer Mr. Martin is enterprising, able and upright, a careful and conscientious counsel and advisor, a strong advocate, and an honor to the profession; his official career was marked for its fidelity to public interest; and as a citizen he stands in the highest repute.
"A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume v.2)"by George Washington Smith.
He is a Republican in politics, and as such was elected to represent the Fifty-first assembly district in the Forty-first General Assembly of Illinois, his district comprising the counties of Pulaski, Johnson, Massac, Pope and Saline. His service in that body was marked for its vigorous and careful application to the interests of his State and his constituency, and the standing which he held among his colleagues in the Assembly was attested by his important committee duties. He was made chairman of the committee on judicial department and practice, and served as a member of the committee on elections, the judiciary and insurance committees, and the committee to visit state institutions. He was also a constructive legislator, having secured the passage of a law increasing the term of school one month, thus requiring a term of not less than six months each year instead of five months in all public schools of the state. This one accomplishment alone entitles him to rank as one of his state's greatest benefactors, for the law's good results are beyond measure.
In 1900 Mr. Martin was elected state's attorney of Pulaski county, and in 1904 was re-elected to that office. He was renominated without opposition in 1908, but resigned the nomination, and has since devoted his attention to the private practice of law, though at the present time he is city attorney of Mound City. He is a prominent worker in his party and has served as a delegate to different Republican county, congressional and state conventions.
On December 24, 1895, at Mound City, Mr. Martin married Miss Ada L. Read, a daughter of I. W. Read, a veteran Union soldier from middle Tennessee. They have one son, Russell Read, born in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Mound City.
Mr. Martin is a director of the Mound City Building and Loan Association. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He represented his lodge of the last named order at a special head Camp meeting in Chicago in 1912, and prior to that, or in 1911, had served as a delegate to the Head Camp at Buffalo, New York.
As a lawyer Mr. Martin is enterprising, able and upright, a careful and conscientious counsel and advisor, a strong advocate, and an honor to the profession; his official career was marked for its fidelity to public interest; and as a citizen he stands in the highest repute.
"A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests (Volume v.2)"by George Washington Smith.
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