B. Raleigh Martin

As printed in 1910

B. RALEIGH MARTIN.

One of the most successful attorneys of the younger generation in north west Missouri is B. Raleigh Martin, now practicing in St. Joseph, but until recently one of Nodaway county’s best known members of the bar, being known for his industrious habits, prompt and faithful to all business matters entrusted to him, and strictly honest in all his transactions, professional or otherwise. He is deliberate, painstaking and cautious in his methods of work, and in all that he does he recognizes the principles of system and order. His talents are of that would that the world inclines to denominate brilliancy in oratory, and are also of the equally useful, valuable and practical kind. He aims to be familiar with his books, and his purpose is to understand the law: a matter-of-fact, straightforward, responsible, unassuming gentleman and lawyer. He has deservedly gained the respect and confidence of the people, and is succeeding well in his profession, with the best of prospects for a future compensating enlargement of practice.

Mr. Martin was born in McDonough county, Illinois, July 6, 1872, and is the son of Dr. Erancis M. and Salome Sarah (Westfall) Martin, the father

1 1 32 now a well known homeopathic physician of Maryville, a native of Illinois where he was reared and educated. Following his graduation at the Hahne mann Medical College in Chicago, in 1877. he practiced his profession at LaHarpe, Illinois, for ten years, moving to Maryville, Missouri, in 1887 and has remained here to the present time, being one of the best known home paths in the state, and in 1899 was president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Missouri. He married Salome Sarah Westfall on August 24, 1871, in McComb, Illinois, and four children were born to this union: Beverly Raleigh, of this review; Mabel P., of Maryville, Missouri; Dr. Charles V.. whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, and Alice Almyra, of Maryville.

B. Raleigh Martin received his primary education at LaHarpe, Illinois, and in the Maryville (Missouri) schools, graduating from the local academy in 1892. He read law while attending school, and after his graduation he entered Judge Ramsay's office, and in 1893 was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Hopkins, Missouri, and was very successful in the practice there until 1898, in which year he was elected prosecuting attorney of Nod away county, his abilities and public spirit having attracted the attention of party leaders and the public as well, for prior to that time he had become prominent as a criminal lawyer, having been retained in a number of important cases, among which were these: the State of Missouri against Ulmer and Rasco, Ulmer receiving a sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary; also that of the state of Iowa against Friend, Beabout and Pope. As a prosecutor he had charge of a number of important cases, all of which he handled with consummate skill and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Martin's oratorical powers and his familiarity with the literature of the world and general topics of the day have rendered his services in demand as a lecturer and he has appeared on many platforms on diverse themes, always delighting his audience, whatever the subject presented. Politically he is a Republican, and he belongs to the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias.

Seeking a large field for the exercise of his talents, Mr. Martin moved to St. Joseph on April 15, 1910, where he will, no doubt, soon take a position in the front rank of the Buchanan county bar.

Mr. Martin was married, in 1893, to Mabel Thurston, the excellent representative of a fine old family of Jackson county, Missouri, and this union has been graced by the birth of two children, Pauline E. S., now fifteen years of age, and Marion T.

Judging from his past enviable record and the fact that he is yet young in years, the future of Mr. Martin is particularly bright as a lawyer, lecturer, politician and citizen.

As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.