Martin, Luther
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1748, in New Brunswick, N. J. In 1778 he was appointed attorney-general of Maryland. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785; and was a member of the convention which framed the federal constitution, but was opposed to its adoption, and an elaborate speech which he delivered before the assembly of Maryland about the convention caused considerable excitement at the time throughout the country; he acquired distinction by defending Samuel Chase and Aaron Burr, in their celebrated trials. In 1814 he was appointed judge of the court of oyer and terminer. He died July 10, 1826, in New York.
MARTIN, MRS. MARGARET [MAX- WELL], educator, author, was born July 12, 1807, in Scotland. She is an educator of Columbia, S. C.; and the author of Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Religious Poems; and Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina.
MARTIN, MORGAN L.. congressman, was born in New York. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Wisconsin from 1845 to 1847.