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Hammond, Charles Addison

clergyman, lawyer, prohibitionist, was born , was born Sept. 15, 1825, in Freetown, N. Y. He re- N. Y. He received his education at the Cortlandville academy, and at the New York Central college. For three years he was clerwas clergyman of the church of Peterboro, N. Y. As a lawyer his work has been largely in behalf of public interests, and for years was prosecuting attorney for Citizens' committees to enforce anti-liquor laws in Central New York. In early life he was an active abolitionist, and the intimate friend of Gerrit Smith, the famous abo- , the famous abolitionist, philanthropist and reformer. Mr. reformer. Mr.

Hammond has always been an earnest temperance reformer; and one of the leading prohibitionists of Syracuse, N. Y.

Syracuse, N. Y.