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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaAugustus Newton MARTIN
(1847-1901)
MARTIN, Augustus Newton, a
Representative from Indiana; born near Whitestown, Butler County,
Pa., March 23, 1847; attended the common schools and Witherspoon
Institute, Butler, Pa., and was graduated from Eastman College,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in February 1867; enlisted July 3, 1863, in
Company I, Fifty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia;
enlisted again February 22, 1865, in Company E, Seventy-eighth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until
discharged for disability August 30, 1865; taught school; studied
law in Bluffton, Wells County, Ind., in 1869; was admitted to the
bar in 1870 and practiced; member of the State house of
representatives in 1875; elected reporter of the Supreme Court of
Indiana in 1876 and served four years; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1880; resided in Austin, Tex., 1881-1883; returned to
Bluffton, Ind., in 1883; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first,
Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3,
1895); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to
the Fifty-fourth Congress; engaged in the practice of law in
Bluffton, Ind., until his death at the Soldiers’ Home
Hospital, Marion, Ind., July 11, 1901; interment in Fairview
Cemetery, Bluffton, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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