“The Honorable Benjamin F. Martin (1828-1895) was born at Farmington, West Virginia. He graduated from Allegheny College in 1854, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He settled in Pruntytown, West Virginia, but moved to Grafton when that town was made the county seat. He entered politics and was elected to the United States Congress in 1876 on the Democratic ticket. He was an active layman in the Methodist Episcopal Church.”
Plummer, K.M. (1965) A history of West Virginia Wesleyan College 1890-1965. [electronic] Retrieved from Internet Archive. Buckhannon, WV: West Virginia Wesleyan College.
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