Martin Brown, an attorney in Batavia, was born in Montgomery County, in 1850, and in 1863 enlisted in Co. B, 25th Ohio Vols., serving until the close of the war. He was wounded in 1864 during the engagement at Grahamsville, S. C. After the close of the war he came to Genesee County, learned the carpenters' trade, following it for 10 years, and teaching district school in the winters. Entering the office of Judge M; H. Peck he studied law two years, subsequently graduated from the Albany Law School, class of 1882, and the same year was admitted to practice. He served as justice of the peace in Pembroke six years, and in Batavia two years. He was married, in 1882, to Miss Mary J. Mattison. They have one son, Allen G.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890