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Hammond, James B – Hampton, Wade

Hammond, James B

inventor, was born April 23, 1839, in Boston, Mass. He invented the Hammond typewriter.

Hammond, John

soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1827, in Crown Point, N. Y. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising from the ranks to brigadier-general.

He was elected president of the Crown Point Iron company; was elected a representative from New York to the fortysixth and forty -seventh congresses as a republican.

Hammond, John Fox

physician, was born Dec. 7, 1821, in Columbia, S. C.

He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army in 1847. In 1862 he was medical director of the second army corps of the Potomac , and was present at the siege of Yorktown and the principal battles of the peninsula. He died Sept. 29, 1886, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Hammond, Nathaniel J

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1833, in Elbart, Ga. He was solicitor-general from 1861 to 1865; was reporter of the state supreme court from 1867 to 1872; and was attorney-general of the state from 1872 to 1877. He was a member of the constitutional conventions of 1865 and 1877.

He was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Hammond, Robert H

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died June 2, 1847.

Hammons, David

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1807, in Oxford county, Maine . He was a member of the senate of Maine in 1840 and 1841; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849.

Hammons, Joseph

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He died in April, 1833, in Farmington, N. H.

Hampton, Charles S

journalist, legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in Medina, Mich . In 1875 he graduated from the Adrian college, Michigan. He has served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature; has been state game and fish warden of Michigan; and has filled numerous other public positions of honor.

He is the editor and proprietor of the Independent Democrat of Petoskey, Mich.; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.

Hampton, James G

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a repborn in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1845 to 1849.

Hampton, Moses

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1808, in Beaver county , Pa. From 1847 to 1851 he was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, and declined a re-election.

In 1853 he was elected president judge of the district court for Allegheny county. congressman, was born in 1765, in South

Hampton, Wade

soldier, planter, soldier, planter, Carolina. He took an active part in the war of the revolution; was a representative in congress from that state from 1795 to 1797, and from 1803 to 1805. He spent the larger part of his life engaged in agricultural pursuits, by which he amassed a very large fortune, having been called the richest planter in the United States. He died Feb. 4, 1835, in Columbia, S. C.