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A Genius in Obscurity. /Gazette.]* The telegraphic dispatches announced, on Friday moaning, that the venerable seat of learning, Yale College, had conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on “ Arteimas Martin, of Erie, Pa.” Few were the people in this community who were not surprised by the announcement. For, truth to tell,Tew had ever^ heard of Arteipas Martin. To the oldest* citizen the me was completely'unknown, and it|was generally concluded that the announcement must be erroneous. So it was in one particular—* tlie honorary degree ebiifGr jjeiF' was' that of Master of (Arte, but the man who received it and Worthily wears it was, after much search representatives of the Gazette, tracedj out. Professor Artemas Martin is a paclielor, aged forty-two, who has for several years lived with his parents and sisters on what is known as u The Old Nob'le Farm,” now owned by Mr. Joseph McCarter, in the MeDannei neighborndod, East Mill Creek, about a mile east of thp city limits, on'the Lake road. His occupation is that of market gardener, and for; the last half dozen years every Wednesday and Saturday mornings has Ifouijid him selling vegetables on State Street, In his own family he has always} bebn called “ The Professor ” (a title he has now a right to wear), but to hjs neighbors he lias been known only as a market gardener. But “ a prophet is not \yithout honor save in his own country.” j In mathematical circles, both in this country and in Europe, few homes are better known than that of Artemas Martin. He, is a regular contributor to the Educational Times, of London, England;! to the Messenger.of Mathematics, Cambridge, England; to the Analyst, sof Des Moines, Iowa, and the mathematical department of the Yates County Chronicle, of Penn Yan, N. Y. He was;the editor of the mathematical department of the Schooiday Magazine till its discontinuance. He is now editor of the department of higher mathematics in the Normal Monthly, published, by tlije well-known mathematical author, Professor Brooks, of Miller^* ville, Pa. Finally* he' is editor and publisher of the Mathematical Visitor, an annual, of which the first number was issued from Mr. Glazier’s p^ess last March.
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Angelica Advertiser
Angelica, New York, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1877
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