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Ham, Marion Franklin

poet, was born in 1867 in Ohio. He is a poet of Chattanooga; and the author of The Golden Shuttle and Other Poems. HAMBERLIN, LAFAYETTE RUPERT, educator, poet, was born Feb. 25, 1861, in Clinton, Miss. He received his education at the Mississippi college, and at the Richmond college, Va. He has attained success as a teacher of English literature; has been professor of English and expression in the Thatcher institute of Shreveport, La.; instructor of expression in Richmond college; and adjunct professor of English and expression in the university of Texas. He is the author of four volumes of verse, entitled Lyrics, Lilts, Rhymes, and Verses. He was conclave poet for the Knights Templar of Mississippi in 1881; alumni poet for Richmond college in 1889-91; and convention poet for Beta Theta Phi fraternity in 1887 and 1897. He is now the president of the Southern Interstate Oratorical association of Austin, Texas.