Stoddard Martin

Stoddard Hurd Martin(1811-1865) was an American carpenter and master builder from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Freesoiler member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1849. He was a son of Stoddard Martin (1781-1868) of North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and in a tradition made famous by Horace Greeley's quote 'Go West, young man' took a trail which led him eventually to Madison, Wisconsin, where he built a domicile which was one of the first in the future capital of the state. He was descended from early settlers of Massachusetts, including through his grandmother, Sarah Williams Martin, the Reverend Solomon Stoddard and Governors Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Dudley.