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From: (Marcia Payne)
Subject: [MAWORCES] Frank Charles Martin biography
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:55:48 -0500 (CDT)

"History of Worcester and Its People" by Charles Nutt; Volume 3

page 230


Dentist, was born in North Grafton, Mass., Jan. 30, 1879,son of
Charles and Delia (La Porte) Martin. He attended the public schools
there, completing the course in the grammar school in 1894. During the
following 5 years he was employed in the shoe factory of J.S. Nelson &
Son at N. Grafton. He began to study dentistry in Worcester in 1899, and
2 years later became a student in the Baltimore College of Dental
Surgery, graduating in 1904 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.
In the same year he began to practice in Worcester at No. 419 Main
Street but since 1918 he has had offices at No. 28 Pleasant Street. Dr.
Martin's recreations are baseball, golf, and motoring.
Dr. Martin married Sept. 11, 1907, at Gardiner, Maine, to Virginia
S. Sawyer, born at Gardiner, daughter of Roscoe O. and Sarah (Duffy)
Sawyer. Her father is now living at Stockton Springs, Maine, and is a
shipper for the St. John's Lumber Company; he is a veteran of the Civil
War; her mother died in October 1917. Mrs. Martin is descended from many
of the early settlers of Maine and Massachusetts.
Charles Martin, father of Dr. Martin was born in Vermont, August 30,
1841 and died in North Grafton, Nov. 1, 1917. He was a shoemaker by
trade, but had been retired since 1904. He married Delia La Porte, who
was born in St. Alexandria, Canada, March 15, 1848, and is now living in
North Grafton. They had 9 children:
1) Ida, who married David Benoit of N. Grafton
2) Rose, of Brockton
3) Edward, of Brockton, assistant superintendant of the W.L. Douglas
factory
4) William, of N. Grafton, shoe dealer
5) Cornelia, married Moses Beauregard of North Grafton
6) Dr. Frank C.
7) Dr. Henry, also a dentist, practicing at No. 184 Front Street,
Worcester; living in N. Grafton
8) Mabel, of Brockton
9) Isabel, married Thomas B. Pellett of N. Grafton

Dr. and Mrs. Martin reside at No. 722 Pleasant Street. Mrs. Martin
is a member of the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution. She is a descendent of Douglas Perley, one of the
founders of the town of Winchendon. They have no children.

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