Introduction

Biography

Martin was the son of Ar­ad Towne, a vo­cal mu­sic teach­er, and Try­phen­ia Mc­Cloud, and hus­band of Belle Kellogg.

A doc­tor, teach­er and com­pos­er, he be­longed to the Con­ti­nent­als sing­ing group. One of his most po­pu­lar songs was the 1865 Old Abe the Bat­tle Ea­gle.

Works

• The Clus­ter
• Good Will, with Jai­rus M. Still­man (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1878)
• Prayer Meet­ing Songs
• Sabbath Songs
• Temperance Songs
• Band of Hope Songs
• The In­ter­na­tion­al Les­son Hym­nal, with Da­vid Cook (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Da­vid C. Cook, 1878)
• Choir An­thems, 1880
• Temperance An­thems, 1881
• Sabbath Songs, 1886
• Anthems of Joy, 1891
• Towne’s Enun­ci­at­or or Choir Com­pan­ion, 1898
• Pentecostal Hymns, cir­ca 1905
• The Mes­sage of Christ­mas, a can­ta­ta
• The Gruff Judge and Happy San­ta Claus
• The En­chant­ed Wood
• The Tri­al of San­ta Claus