Edward Sandford Martin

Edward Sandford Martin (2 January 1856 – 13 June 1939) was an American journalist and editor.

Edward S. Martin was born in 1856 on his grand-uncle Enos T. Throop's estate "Willowbrook" near Auburn, New York.

His mother, Cornelia Williams Martin, was a prominent social activist in Auburn.

[1] The youngest son in his parents' large and socially prominent family, Edward S. Martin completed his secondary education in 1872 at Phillips Academy and in 1877 graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard University,[2] where in 1876 he was one of the founders of the Harvard Lampoon.

[2] Martin's sister Emily Norwood Martin Upton (1846–1870) married military strategist General Emory Upton (1839–1881) in 1868, but died of consumption two years later.