[2][7] His ancestor, John Martin, accompanied Sir Francis Drake in his famous voyage around the world in 1580.

[8] In 1884, Martin leased Balmacaan, a well known game preserve in parish of Urguhart, Inverness-shire Scotland, a mile from Drumnadrochit, from Lady Seafield.

[9] When his daughter married the Earl of Craven in 1893, the press reported that: "The British lion captured another American prize yesterday, and $1,000,000 more of Yankee money has gone to swell English exchequers.

[citation needed] Many prominent preachers and writers argued over the propriety of a party that would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cornelia was the only child and heir of Isaac Sherman (d. 1881), a retired merchant who lived on West Twentieth Street in New York and was close friends with Abraham Lincoln.

[19][20] Together, they were the parents of three children: Martin died of influenza, which developed into pneumonia, on February 5, 1913, in London, England.