William Carlos Martyn

Background

Martyn, William Carlos was born on December 15, 1841 in New York, United States. Son of Review Job H. and Sarah Towne (Smith) Martyn.

Education

Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1869. (Doctor of Divinity., Doctor of Laws).

Career

Don Fermin Ferrer, president of Nicaragua, 1866. Ordained Congleton ministry, 1869. Pastor Saint Louis, 1869-1871, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1871-1876, New York, 1876-1890, Newark, New Jersey, 1890-1892, Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, 1892-1894.

Lecturer and occasional supply, 1894-1905.

Pastor Noroton, Connecticut, since 1906. Literature director The Abbey Press, New York, 1897-1903.

Edited American Reformers’ series, 1890-1896. Author: John Milton, 1866.

Life of Martin Luther, 1866.

History of the English Puritans, 1867. History of the Huguenots, 1868. The Dutch Reformation, 1869.

The Pilgrim Fathers of New England, 1870.

Wendell Phillips—the Agitator, 1890. William East. Dodge, 1891.

John B. Gough, the Apostle of Cold Water, 1893. Christian Citizenship, 1896.

Sour Saints and Sweet Sinners (novel), 1898.

Home: Noroton, Connecticut

Achievements

• William Carlos Martyn has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Mercedes, daughter

Father:

Review Job H. Martyn

Mother:

Sarah Towne (Smith) Martyn

Spouse:

Mercedes