John Charles Martin

John Charles Martin (1882–1966) was an American newspaper publisher. Beginning in 1913, ran the newspapers purchased by his step father-in-law Cyrus Curtis, including the Public Ledger, the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and four others. In 1931, an insurance industry magazine published a listing of Americans carrying the most life insurance; Martin was second on the list with $6,540,000 in insurance, after Pierre Samuel du Pont with $7 million.

Biography John Charles Martin was born in Hagerstown, Maryland on August 31, 1882.

He married Alice Wedgwood Pillsbury on April 12, 1909, and they had five children.

He died in La Jolla, California on June 26, 1966.

Martin's former estate in Wyncote, Pennsylvania now houses the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.