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Hammond, Eli Shelby

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 21, 1838, 21, 1838, in Brandon, Miss. He served in the conin the confederate states army; was lieutenant of the second Tennessee infantry; and ad- ; and adjutant of the fourteenth Tennessee cavalry. He has served with distinction as United States district judge for the westfor the western district of Tennessee .

HAMMOND, GEORGE WASHINGTON, physician, state senator, poet, was born May 12, 1802, in Gilsum, N. H. He served his district as state senator in 1855-56.

He is the author of a number of rare porare poems. He died Jan. 30, 1872, in Stock- , in Stockbridge, N. Y.

HAMMOND, MRS. HENRIETTA HAR- DY, author, was born in 1854 in Virginia. in Virginia.

She was a southern writer of fiction; and the author of The Georgians; A Fair Phi- A Fair Philosopher; Her Waiting Heart; and Wo- ; and Wo man's Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. be Beautiful.