Harold Martin on campus Saturday with Pearson diary

Harold C. Martin, president  of Union College from 1965 to 1974, will be on campus this weekend to sign copies of a two-volume work he has edited with introduction and notes, The Diary of Jonathan Pearson (Union College Press, 2004).

Martin will be at Schaffer Library on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m., outdoors weather permitting.

Pearson, professor of chemistry and botany, treasurer and librarian for the College, kept a diary through 1875. It provides detailed accounts of daily life and conflicts at the College, then one of the largest colleges in the nation, and during the presidency of Eliphalet Nott (1804 to 1866). The diary also preserves the events leading up to the Civil War and includes trips to St. John's Island in Canada and a trip by boat on the Erie Canal to Niagara.

Martin is the author of Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition (1958); St. George's Church: Spanning Three Centuries (1984); and "Outlasting Marble and Brass:" The History of the Church Pension Fund (1986). He also co-authored Inquiry and Expression (1958) and edited Style in Prose Fiction (1959). He lives in Maine.