BIOGRAPHY: Dr. George MARTIN, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 96
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DR. GEORGE MARTIN.  The subject of this sketch, Dr. George Martin, is a leading 
physician of Conemaugh, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of David and 
Nancy (Hadden) Martin, and was born October 11, 1858, in Indiana county, 
Pennsylvania. November 21, 1888, he married Miss Mary Clark, a daughter of L. M. 
Clark, of Indiana county. December 25, 1889, Blanche, the first of his two 
children was born; January 16, 1894, Almira, the second, was born.
     Dr. Martin was educated in the common schools and at Pine Flat Academy, 
Indiana State Normal school and a college at Champaign, Illinois. For six terms 
he taught school successfully in Pennsylvania and Illinois, and also clerked for 
a time in the store of his brother, at Martintown, Indiana county, a town named 
for the family.
     But Dr. Martin's ambitions led him into professional work, and in 1882 he 
commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Thomas MacMullen, of Greenville, 
Indiana county. Later he entered Jefferson Medical college, and graduated in 
1885. For four years after graduating he practiced his profession at Cherrytree, 
Indiana county, and then moved to Conemaugh, where he now has a profitable and 
congenial practice.
     He was a member of the Indiana County Medical society and of the Cambria 
County Medical society. He served for three years as coroner of Cambria county, 
this being the only office for which he was ever a candidate. At the same time 
he is a staunch democrat, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In his profession Dr. Martin is 
zealous and indefatigable, and in his character is manifested the best 
characteristics of the Scotch-Irish race.
     Dr. Martin is a great-grandson of David Martin, a native of Scotland, who 
emigrated to Donegal county, in the north of Ireland, noted as the cradle of the 
Scotch-Irish people. His grandfather, John Martin, was born in Ireland and came 
to America in 1801, at the age of twenty-one. He landed at New Castle, Delaware, 
but shortly afterward came to Indiana county, and located in what was then 
Cherry Hill township. Here he died at the age of ninety-six years. He was a 
farmer and a democrat up to the late Civil War, held township offices and took 
an active part in local politics.
     The father of our subject was born in Westmoreland county, January 4, 1814, 
and was three months old when the family moved to Indiana county. He lived 
nearly all his life in Green township, dying there in 1890. He also was a farmer 
and active in local politics. He married the mother of Dr. Martin, who was born 
near Indiana, Indiana county, and to this union were born three boys and five 
girls.