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Thomas (JOHN MARTIN an American)

JOHN MARTIN, an American college president; born in Fort Covington, N. Y., 1869. He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1893, after which he was ordained a Presbyterian minister, becoming pastor in East Orange, N. J., where he remained until 1908. In that year he was appointed president of Middlebury College in Vermont. From 1910 until 1914 he was chairman of the Vermont State Board of Education. He is the author of "The Christian Faith and the Old Testament" (1908). During the world war he served as chaplain in the United States Army , with the rank of first lieutenant. lexicographer; born in Cayuga co., N. Y., Sept. 23, 1811. He was with Thomas Baldwin, author of "Baldwin's Pronouncing Gazetteer." In 1851-1852 appeared his first book of "Etymology," followed by an edition of Oswald's "Etymological Dictionary." In 1854 he prepared "A New and Complete Gazetteer of United States"; tes"; and and in 1855 "A Complete Geographical Dictionary of the World " (popularly known as "Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World"). In 1864 appeared his comprehensive "Medical Dictionary"; and in 1870 his "Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 24 He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 24,