Biography

01/13/1846 - 11/29/1933

MARTIN, Nelson, a Representative from Mercer County; born, January 13, 1846 in Shenango Township, Mercer County, Pa; attended, Northwest State Normal School (now Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro); merchant; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Jamestown, Pa.; died, November 29, 1933 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interred, Park Lawn Cemetery, Jamestown, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.