"Ithaca, Dec. 4--Dr. Martin Van Buren Besemer, aged sixty-nine, one of Ithaca's most prominent citizens, died Sunday morning at his home, 224 South Albany street, after a year's illness of heart trouble. He suffered spinal injuries in a fall from an automobile at Pulaski last fall and never recovered. He was born in Dryden and had practiced medicine in Ithaca thirty-one years. He leaves his widow, one son, Dr. H. B. Besemer of this city; one brother, W. G. Besemer of Besemer Station, and one sister, Mrs. Georgianna Payne of Newark Valley. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at the home and will be private. Interment will be in West Slaterville cemetery."
"Prominent Ithaca Physician Dies as Reult of Accident," Elmira Star-Gazette, December 4, 1916, 9.