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MARTIN, Joseph Hamilton, clergyman, born in Jefferson county, Tennessee, 11 August, 1825; died in Georgetown, Kentucky, 7 February. 1887. He was graduated at East Tennessee university (now the University of Tennessee, from which he received the degree of D. D. in 1878) in 1843, and at Union theological seminary, New York city, in 1846. After laboring for two years as a missionary among sailors at New Orleans, he was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Huntsville, Alabama, in August, 1848. From 1851 till 1864 he preached in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then in Bethesda, South Carolina, till 1867, and for the next two years in Wytheville, Virginia he preached subsequently to various churches in Tennessee, and was a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1873 till 1882, and preached to vacant churches near Georgetown, Kentucky, till his death. He was the author of two historical poems entitled "Smith and Pocahontas" (Richmond, 1862), and "The Declaration of Independence" (New York, 1876); also of many Sunday-school songs.
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