Biographical Sketch of W. L. Martin, M. D., Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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W. L. Martin, M. D., one of the leading medical practitioners of John-
son county, was born in 1876 in Christian county, Missouri.  He is a 
son of Reverend J. J. Martin, one of the brave pioneer preachers of the
Methodist church and a man of marked intellectual ability.  Reverend
Martin filled many prominent and important positions and charges in 
this state.  At one time, he was president of Carleton College, Farm-
ington, Missouri.  He was the chaplain of the State Penitentiary, 
during the administration of Governor Hadley.  Reverend J. J. Martin 
was the minister of the different city churches of Joplin, Indepen-
dence, Lamar, Marionville and Mt. Vernon and in practically each of 
these cities was the prime factor in the building of the present beau-
tiful church buildings now found in the above mentioned places.  For
many years, Reverend Martin was the chaplain serving the Grand Army of
the Republic.  He is now located at Mt. Washington.  He is an excep-
tionally fine man, a scholar, a thinker, of whom there are so few in
this world, and a gentleman, a true leader of men.  W. L. Martin
attended the public schools of Joplin, Missouri.  He attended Joplin
High School, later entered Westplains College, completing his college
course at Carleton College.  He attended St. Louis University four
years, graduating from the School of Medicine with the class of 1902.
After completing his work in the university, Dr. Martin came to 
Chilhowee, where he opened an office and at this place has ever since
been engaged in the practice of medicine.  He is now enjoying a 
splendid practice and the highest respect and esteem of the different
members of his profession.  He is a member of the American Association
of Railway Surgeons.  Dr. Martin is the local surgeon for the Rock
Island Railway Company.  In 1905, Dr. W. L. Martin and Lulu Johnson,
the daughter of N. A. Johnson, now of Oklahoma, were united in marri-
age.  To Dr. and Mrs. Martin have been born two children, both daugh-
ters.  Pauline and Helen.  Dr. Martin has always taken a keen interest
in public affairs and was for two years the mayor of Chilhowee and is
now, in 1917, a member of the Chilhowee School Board and the City 
Board of Public Works.  He is an intensely deep thinker and much in
advance of his time, but with all the broad perspective of the truly
educated man, he is perfectly willing that others may have opinions
that do not coincide with his own.  Dr. and Mrs. Martin are held in
the highest esteem and are very popular in Chilhowee.

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