Franklin Henry Martin

Franklin Henry Martin (July 13, 1857 – March 7, 1935) was an American physician. He was the founder of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and established the American College of Surgeons. He was a member of the National Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense during World War I.

Early life Franklin Henry Martin was born on July 13, 1857, in Ixonia, Wisconsin, to Edmond Martin. His father fought and died during the Civil War. He worked as a farmhand, brickmaker and school teacher before being encouraged by an aunt to study medicine. Martin graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1880 with a M.D.

Career Martin served as an intern at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. He would practice medicine at Mercy Hospital for the remainder of his life.

In 1883, Martin founded the Chicago South-Side Medico-Social Society where medical papers could be presented. By 1905, Martin established the journal Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, now called the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, with other physicians.

Martin wrote Electricity in Diseases of Women and Obstetrics in 1892. He also wrote South America from a Surgeon's Point of View in 1922.

Personal life Martin married Isabelle Hallister, the daughter of the Chicago physician John H. Hallister, in 1886.