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Martin was born on February 17, 1820 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Martin was born on February 17, 1820 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States.
With the ministry in view he entered Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), Gettysburg, and graduated in 1838, but he was pressed into service as an instructor before he could begin his theological course.
The honorary degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him in 1866 by Hamilton College, and that of LL. D. in 1869 by Union College.
After his graduation in 1838 from Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College, he became a teacher at Jefferson, Frederick County, Maryland, being deterred from entering the Lutheran ministry by a slight hesitancy in his speech.
In the autumn of 1841 he was recalled to Gettysburg and spent the rest of his life there, as principal of the Academy, 1842-51, and as professor in the College after 1844, teaching history, 1844-56, and Latin, 1851-70. He was acting president in 1850 between the administrations of Charles Philip Krauth and Henry Louis Baugher.
He was secretary for a number of years of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States, was one of the editors, 1857-61, of the Evangelical Review, and was sole editor and proprietor, 1862-70.
Articles from his pen appeared in every issue but two of its entire career, 1849-70. Though himself of the school of S. S. Schmucker, he kept the pages of the Review open to contributors of every degree of orthodoxy and printed many literary essays, thereby making the journal both a theological and a cultural influence. In his travels in behalf of the College and the Church, he gathered information for a series of "Memoirs of Deceased Lutheran Clergymen, " eighty-three in all, ranging from the shadowy figures of the early eighteenth-century pioneers to his own elder contemporaries.
He supplied the bulk of the Lutheran material for W. B. Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit and published separately a Memoir of the Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1856) and a Memorial of Rev. Philip F. Mayer (1858), besides a few occasional addresses.
During the battle of Gettysburg he and his wife filled their house on the Square with wounded soldiers and turned their yard into a field kitchen with food and drink for every comer.
After the Confederate retreat three Union officers emerged uncaptured from behind the cider barrels in the cellar. He declined calls to several educational institutions, the last offer of this kind - a tender of the presidency of the University of Nebraska - coming while his body awaited burial.
He died in Philadelphia, while visiting relatives, after an illness of two days.
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He was accurate in his statement of facts and rescued not a few good men from oblivion, but his fondness for Latin quotations and his desire to improve every opportunity for edification sometimes interfered with the biographical intention.
Quotations: "This, " M. L. S. noted, "is the spirit which I have seen exhibited by many of these men. God, in his wondrous providence, is doing marvellous things by means of this war. .. One of the results will be the elevation of the African race, in the confidence it has isnpired in themselves, in making them, as well as others, feel that they have capacities, that they are immortal beings, that they can accomplish something for the good of their fellowmen. "
He was a member of the United States Sanitary Commission.
His kindness and hospitality were proverbial.
On June 14, 1850, he married Elizabeth McConaughy of Gettysburg, who with their son, William Caspar, survived him.