Dr. J.T. Martin
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Joseph Thomas Martin was a doctor in Oklahoma City.
Martin served as city physician beginning in December of 1918 and saw the city through the end of the influenza pandemic. In addition to serving as Oklahoma City's city physician, Martin was on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma Medical College for 37 years, and he served on the city park board for twenty years.
Having come to Oklahoma as a child with his family during the Land Run of 1889, he was also the brother of the twenty-fourth mayor of Oklahoma City, John F. Martin. Martin Park Nature Center in north Oklahoma City is named for him.
