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Dll'nedardrDR. MARTIN. FORMER,Nt Ncy_ * | NayonieftoCLINTON WARDENjCHARGE AT ATTICADr. Walter B. Martin, the only i psychiatrist in charge of a New York* State prison, became warden at.At-/StScTiWwwn,.tica July 1st.Attica was Dr. Martin’s first: NewTcYork home, he having been selecteto organize psychiatric work at th✓prison when it opened in 1931. He remained until 1934, when he was\happointed superintendent of Albion | ^ State Training School for mentally i defective women.Dr. Martin, described by State Cor-i 11gaerrection Commissioner John A. Lyons 1 j_jt at the state’s lone psychiatrist-war- j ju den, was made head of Clinton. Pris- j on, Dannemora, January 16, 1940. He ; coIheld the post until sent to Attica to I succeed Warden William Hunt, who retired last week after 23 years in state service.1S-re-fa*l n-■toveasiVernel Jackson, superintendent of industries at Clintdn Prison, succeeds Martin there.i;alDr. Martin, 53-year-old Milwaukee ke ! native whose father and grandfather were physicians, studied medicine at Marquette University and was grad-!1 uated from Hahnemann Medical in • School, Chicago, in 1917.T 4-1-v 4T *- Tir 1 ,1 InksowlinW'ctiscuty,usIn the first World War he servedV■1censve1-214 months as an officer in the Medical Corps’ psychiatric service andtrshendupon discharge entered the U. S. Public Health Service, specializing intreatment of mentally ill soldiers.leiilither-Beginning in 1920, he spent thpee years in research and as psychiatristin the Chicago juvenile courts and six- years as psychiatrist at Illinoisar,| State Penitentiary before rejoining on | the U. S. Public Health Service. He t0 \ established the clinical examination ke j of prisoners at Leavenworth Peniten-1 tiary.urmyeexofayeyofDr. Martin is a fellqw of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Prison Association. He and Mrs. Martin haveise adrai a daughter, Joan, a student at Syracuse University.as“vthPILireI rn
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The Adirondack Record - Elizabethtown Post
Au Sable Forks, New York, US
Thu, Jul 08, 1943
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