From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 273.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.


LUCIEN R. MARTIN, confidential clerk and cashier at Hobbs, Brockunier & Co.'s 
glass works, South Wheeling, is youngest son of Ebenezer Martin, born 1792, late 
landed proprietor of Martin's Ferry, after whom that place derived its name; he, 
however, died January 17th, 1876. Mrs. Martin, Ebenezer's wife, and mother 
to the subject of our sketch, bore the maiden name of Minerva Zane, daughter of 
Isaac Zane, and a descendant of the late Jonathan Zane. Lucien, our subject, was 
born in 1853, received a plain education, and first entered the service of his 
present popular employers in 1871, having remained with them ever since. He was 
married in 1876, to Mary Emmit, youngest daughter of the late Thomas E. Lewis, 
of this city at the time, though of English descent. They have one son. In 
relation to the Martin family, we should state that it was Ebenezer who first 
laid out Martin's Ferry, early in the present century, and the remainder of his 
family, two brothers and two sisters, still occupy the old homestead.