He was the son of Elbridge Gerry Martin (1815-1873), born in Essex, Massachusetts, and Rebecca Homan Dixey (1816-1852).

[2] His grandfather, Captain Ambrose B. Martin (1773-1851) was Master of the two-masted Marblehead, Massachusetts schooner Raven.

[4] He specialized in building yachts and schooners, carpentry and caulking, marine railway, repairing and painting.

[6] He became director and secretary of the Jeffries Yacht Club at the Maverick House, East Boston, in February 1888.

[8] Martin was the commodore on the Edward Burgess designed fisherman schooner Nellie Dixon and was at her launch on March 2, 1889, at East Boston.

They wanted a more up-to-date vessel to challenge the Hesper, Varuna, and other faster boats of the Boston fleet.

In 1898, she was thrown ashore in the great Portland Gale, and remained on the Sand Hills beach in Scituate, Massachusetts for over thirty years as a marine curiosity.

[13] The Louise was built as a civilian schooner-rigged boat in 1900 by Ambrose A. Martin at Jefferies Point, East Boston.