Martin, William
Martin practiced law in Alton, Illinois. He was associated with Lincoln on various railroad cases. In 1851, Martin was one
of the
commissioners for the sale of stock in the Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company.
Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press, 1953), 2:98-99; Albert A. Woldman, Lawyer Lincoln (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1936), 105.