Biographical Sketch of Rev. Charles Martin, M. D., St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Rev. Charles Martin, M. D., Principal of the Young Ladies' Institute,
was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in January, 1812.  He
received a good academic education, and studied medicine with his
father, Dr. George Martin; also attended medical lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1833.  He prac-
ticed medicine exclusively for only about a year, yet he has been
obliged to prescribe for his friends, more or less, ever since.  In
1836, he entered upon the work of the ministry, in the Lutheran
Church.  In 1857, he became the principal of the Lutheran Female
Seminary, near Baltimore, Maryland.  In 1859, he established the
Collegiate Institute, at Warren, Illinois.  In 1865, he became the
principal of the Hagerstown, Maryland, Female Seminary.  Here he
remained until he came to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1869, where in
September of the same year, he established the Young Ladies' Institute,
a school of recognized merit and increasing popularity.  The doctor
desires this to be the crowning masterpiece of his life work.  He con-
templates making large additions to the present buildings, and fitting
them up in first class style, to accomodate the increasing patronage
of the institution.  His first wife was Miss Eliza Carlton, of Mary-
land.  By this marriage they had four children: George T., Elizabeth
and Charles E., and Emma V., who died in 1833.  Mrs. Martin died in
1846.  In 1865, he married Miss L. C. Robinson, of Easton, Maryland.
They have three children:  Maggie R., Martina W. and Endora L.

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