Harold C. Martin, president of Union College from 1965 to 1974, will be
on campus this weekend to sign copies of a two-volume work he has edited with
introduction and notes, The Diary of
Jonathan Pearson (Union College Press, 2004).
Martin will be at Schaffer Library
on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m.,
outdoors weather permitting.
Pearson, professor of chemistry
and botany, treasurer and librarian for the College, kept a diary through 1875.
It provides detailed accounts of daily life and conflicts at the College, then
one of the largest colleges in the nation, and during the presidency of
Eliphalet Nott (1804 to 1866). The diary also preserves the events leading up
to the Civil War and includes trips to St. John's
Island in Canada
and a trip by boat on the Erie Canal to Niagara.
Martin is the author of Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition (1958);
St. George's Church: Spanning Three
Centuries (1984); and “Outlasting
Marble and Brass:” The History of the Church Pension Fund (1986). He also
co-authored Inquiry and Expression (1958)
and edited Style in Prose Fiction (1959).
He lives in Maine.