dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

>https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1993-01-11-2908292-story.html

Edmund F. Martin, 90, a leader in the steel industry, author and community advocate, died yesterday in his home on Saucon Valley Road, Bethlehem R.4. He was the husband of Frances (Taylor) Martin.

He was the chairman and chief executive officer of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. from 1964 until his retirement in 1970. He joined the corporation in 1922 as a member of the Loop Management Training Program.

Less than a month ago, Martin sat in the tower that bears his name at 8th and Eaton avenues, Bethlehem, autographing copies of his newly publish memoirs, "Bethlehem Steelmaker: My 90 Years in Life's Loop."

"We deeply regret the loss of Ed Martin," Curtis H. Barnette, Bethlehem Steel's current chairman and CEO, said yesterday. "He was a distinguished leader of Bethlehem and the steel industry.

"The community and the entire Bethlehem Steel family will miss him greatly. We extend our condolences to the Martin family."

Martin began his steel career in the Bethlehem plant's Saucon Division, leaving after World War II to become the assistant general manager of the Lackawanna, N.Y., plant. In 1958, he returned to Bethlehem to become vice president in charge of the steel division.

He succeeded Arthur B. Homer as president in 1960, and in 1963 became vice chairman of the corporation.

That same year, Sweden conferred upon him the Knight Commander of the Royal Order of the North Star for an international iron ore operation in Liberia. In 1966, the Liberian government conferred one of its highest and oldest distinctions, the Grand Band of the Order of the Star of Africa, upon Martin for the same iron ore operation.

In 1969, Brazil honored him with its highest decoration for a foreigner, the order Knight Commander of the Southern Cross. Bethlehem Steel was associated with manganese mining in Brazil.

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