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John Rill Martin

MARTIN, John Rill, lawyer, born in Philadelphia, 13 January, 1823. He entered the United States military academy in 1838, but resigned in 1841 to enter on the study of the law, and in 1844 was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. In 1851 he became the legal editor of the " Philadelphia Intelligencer," an insurance journal, which post he still retains (1888), engaging also in the work of his profession. He is the author of "Bethlehem and the Moravians" (Philadelphia, 1872); "The Bench and Bar" (1883); and " Chester and its Vicinity, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical Sketches of some Old Families" (1877).

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