Myra Belle Martin (October 6, 1861 – died ) was an American teacher, writer, and financier. Having taught one year in Pennsylvania, six years in Connecticut, and one year in Massachusetts, she was the first woman elected president of the Eastern Connecticut Teachers' Association. She retired from teaching in 1889 and became associate manager of the New York City office of Prang Educational Company, 1889–93. After this time, she held various positions for several important corporations, including secretary and treasurer of the San Luis Mining Company; secretary of the George A. Treadweil Mining Company; as well as secretary and director of the Copete Consolidated Copper Company, and Fahnestock Electric Company. Martin was a prominent member of the American Ethnological Society, the American Anthropological Society, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, the National Institute of Civics, the National Society of Craftsmen, the National Arts Club, the Nineteenth Century Club, the Drawing Room Club, the Shakespeare Club, and the Dickens Fellowship. She was a member of the New York City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she was for seven years the corresponding secretary; treasurer of the Guild for Crippled Children of the Poor of New York City; member of the Library Committee of the New York School of Applied Design for Women; and a founder of the Patria Club of New York. Early years and education Myra Belle Martin was born October 6, 1861, in Grafton, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Isaac Bullock Martin and Almira Helen Haskins Martin. On her mother's side, she was descended from William Haskins —the name was sometimes spelled Hoskins— who was one of the earliest settlers to come from England after the Mayflower. He was a freeman at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1634, and was one of the thirty who bought Bristol County, Massachusetts, from the Native Americans. Several of his descendants fought in the American Revolutionary War, some as officers and some as privates. Her father was also descended from an old New England family, and on his side she had several ancestors who fought in the Revolution. Having been educated in the public schools of Boston and Southbridge, Massachusetts, she prepared to enter the sophomore class at Wellesley College. Career Teacher In 1881, she began teaching, and subsequently prepared many students in Latin, Greek and mathematics, for Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, the Sheffield Scientific school and