Luther and his family taken in 1905 at the Peter's Road place Luther and Dora Etta are pictured with their mothers and both maternal grandmothers & their three children. Luther's maternal grandmother, Sarah Reicherd (nee Garland) passed away the day after this photo was taken.

J3 Martin Luther Sherman Horine, born May 25, 1860 in Burkittsville, Md; died 1959 in Fort Recovery, Ohio. He married Mary E. Hightmann. Martin Luther was a merchant of Burkittsville; attended Gettysburg College and Burkittsville Seminary.

After he and Dora Etta married, his father Lewis purchased a home in Fort Recovery, Ohio and moved there to live until he passed. Luther and Dora Etta continued to live on Lewis' homestead about 6 miles southeast of Fort Recovery on the north side of Peter's road roughly 6/10 miles east of state route 49.

MARTIN LUTHER HORINE, a prominent merchant of Burkittsville, was born on his father's farm, two miles east of that town, on May 25, 1860, and is a son of Ezra S. and Eliza (House) Horine. His education was begun in the public schools of his district, after which he attended the Burkittsville Seminary, and also took a course at a Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, Pa.; he was a student until he reached the age of twenty-one years. He remained on homestead until 1866, when he became a resident of Burkittsville; here he began mercantile business, in the Seminary building. Some time later, he removed to his present location, a few doors distant from the Seminary. Mr. Horine has been very successful; he began in a very modest way and new has the largest store in this part of the valley, carrying a stock worth $5,000.

Martin L. Horine married Miss Mary E., daughter of Johm and Mary E. (Bear) Hightmann, whose father now resides in Washington County. He is a member of the Luthern Church, which he has for some time served as elder. In politics, he is a stanch Republican.