Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 694.

HOMER LEAKE MARTIN, an attorney at-law of Bluffton, Indiana, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Butler County, October 13, 1851. He received his elementary education in the common school, completing it at the Witherspoon Institute at Butler, Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty-three years began the study of law in the law department of the Columbia University at Washington, D. C., completing a full course from that institution in June, 1875. The following November he came to Wells County, Indiana, and began the practice of his chosen profession.