Background
Martin John Vincent (1827-1939) was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Phebe Martin and John
Martin Vincent (1820-1863) who was prosecuting attorney for Lorain County, Ohio, the
publisher of the Elyrian Independent Democrat, an anti-slavery weekly journal, and a member
of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1859 to 1861. The younger Vincent was educated at
Amherst and Oberlin, and he also studied in Germany and France; in 1880, Vincent married Ada
Jane Smith. Vincent was a historian, political scientist, and Professor of European history
at Johns Hopkins University from 1889 until his retirement in 1925. He specialized in the
government and laws of Switzerland, and was author of numerous books on the subject,
including State and Federal Government in Switzerland (1891). In 1936, Vincent moved to
Pasadena, California and died there in 1939.
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