Hammond, Thomas
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1843, in Fitchburg, Mass . In the spring of 1888 he was elected mayor of Hammond, Ind., and has been reelected twice since, serving his third term when elected to congress. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
HAMMOND, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, physician, author , was born Aug. 28, 1828, in Annapolis, Md. He is an eminent physician of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States army in 1862-64; and now on the retired list as brigadier-general and surgeon -general. His medical writings include Military Hygiene; Physiological Essays ; Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous ments; Nervous Derangements; Physio- Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations; Physiology of Spiritualism; Diseases of Physics and the Nervous System; Insanity and its Medical Relations ; Sexual Impotence in the Male; the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia; and Neu- . His novels include Robert clude Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; A Strong-Minded Woman; and On the Susquehanna.