The Chalmers Martin Manuscript Collection

Collection

Identifier: SCM 154

Staff Only

Scope and Content

This collection consists of papers written while Martin was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

Dates

1875 - 1881

Language of Materials

English

Access:

There are no special restrictions to the access of this collection. It may be examined by library patrons under the normal rules and conditions of Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The following is the acceptable citation for publication: The Chalmers Martin Manuscript Collection. Special Collections, Princeton Theological Seminary Library.

Chronology

1859 September 7
: Born, Ashland, Kentucky
1879
: Graduated, College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
1879-1882
: Student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1882-1883
: Hebrew fellow, Princeton Theological Seminary
1883 April 17
: Ordained, Presbytery of Elizabeth
1883-1886
: Missionary, North Laos, Siam
1888
: Assistant pastor, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
1889-1891
: Pastor, First Church, Moorestown
1891-1892
: Pastor, First Church, Port Henry, New York
1892-1900
: Instructor, Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary
1892-1900
: Instructor, Hebrew, Princeton University
1893-1894
: Stated supply, Burlington, New Jersey
1896-1897
: Stated supply, Second Church, Princeton
1900-1903
: President, Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh
1901
: Awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity, Princeton University
1903-1929
: Professor, Old Testament history and Literature, College of Wooster, Ohio
1907-1909
: Stated supply, Westminster church, Wooster, Ohio
1929-1930
: Stated supply, San Mateo, Florida
1929-1934
: Professor emeritus, College of Wooster
1934 February 28
: Died, Wooster, Ohio

Biographical Information

The Rev. Dr. Chalmers Martin (1859-1934) was born in Ashland, Kentucky on September 7, 1859. For more than fifty years, he served the Church as a missionary, pastor, and educator.

Dr. Martin was a 1879 graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and an 1882 graduate of Princeton Seminary. He was awarded a fellowship in Hebrew at Princeton Seminary for 1882/1883. He also received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Princeton University in 1901.

Dr. Martin was ordained by the Presbytery of Elizabeth of the PCUSA in 1882, and, after three years on the mission field in Siam, he served several churches in New Jersey, Florida, and Ohio. He was an instructor of Hebrew at both Princeton Seminary and Princeton University from 1892 to 1900, and was Professor of Old Testament History and Literature at the College of Wooster, from 1903 to 1929. He briefly served as President of the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh, from 1900 to 1903.

Extent

0.3 Linear Feet (1 Box)

Additional Description

Processing Information:

This collection was given to the Seminary in February of 1985 by Hugh I. Troth of Ashland, Ohio. The collection was processed, and the original finding aid was written in July of 1996, by Raymond D. Cannata, under the direction of William O. Harris, Archivist. The finding aid was edited by Sarah Seraphin and Daved Anthony Schmidt in May of 2009.