Samuel Klump Martin, Jr. (1876-1919) was elected to The Lambs in 1904 as a non-resident member. He was a Chicagoland broker and WWI Veteran.
Martin was born in Chicago August 12, 1876. He graduated from Princeton in 1899. After college he became secretary of the Samuel K. Martin Lumber Company of Chicago, his father‘s business. Upon the organization of the Manufacturers Bank of Chicago in 1903 he was elected vice president.
In 1903 he married Laura Elizabeth Young, who had inherited millions of dollars from her late father. The couple had three children.
When the U.S. entered the Great War, Martin volunteered. He went to Plattsburg, New York, for voluntary officer training. He was commissioned a captain in the Quartermaster Corps. He spent the war in Washington, D.C. and Camp McClellan in Alabama. Martin served July 9, 1917 to January 15, 1919.
Only six months after the war, Martin was at a movie theater with his brother when he had a heart attack. He died June 11, 1919. He was 42 years old.
Researched and written by Shepherd Kevin C. Fitzpatrick (2026).