Though she made the 7th grade honor roll in 1918,
Martha never achieved fame in the public eye, or produced accomplishments for public history. Like so many women of her era, and despite her early career as a financial secretary, she held no job outside the home after marriage; nor was she particularly active in social or civil causes. She earned no graduate degrees or honors (yet defined herself proudly as a Mount Holyoke woman into her nineties). Her financial success as an investor was largely invisible outside the home, as she reinvested her wealth in her family from education to business to travel. To measure her life by such public yardsticks would be not only unjust, but simply irrelevant. Martha left a much larger legacy.