Abraham Venable Martin

Biographical Data

Occupations

• Professor. Abraham Venable Martin was a professor at Presbyterian College in SC [1].

Relatives

• Parents: Stephen Taylor Martin [1] and Isabella Brown Venable  [1].
• Maternal grandparents: Abraham Watkins Venable (1799-1876) and Isabella Alston Brown.
• Siblings:
  • two brothers, Stephen Taylor Martin, [Jr.] (d. 1899) and Edward Vernon Martin.
  • three sisters, Annie Belle Martin, Martha Alexander Martin and Grace Vernon Martin.
• Uncles: Thomas Brown Venable (d. 1894) and Samuel Frederick Venable.
• Aunts: Martha Elizabeth Venable (1833-1877)  and Mary Grace Venable.

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).