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Hamtramck, John Francis

soldier, statesman, jurist, was born in 1798, in Fort Wayne , Ind. In 1835 he was captain of the Virginia militia, and held this post until his death. He served in the Mexican war as colonel of the first regiment of Virginia volunteers. In 1853 he was appointed justice of the Jefferson county court, which office he held until the time of his death. He died April 21, 1858, in Shepherdstown.

She HANAFORD, MRS. PHEBE ANN [COF- FIN], clergyman, author, poet, was born May 6, 1829, in Nantucket, Mass. She is a universalist minister, the first woman to enter the ministry in the universalist denomination.

Since 1887 she has been in charge of a church at New Haven. is the author of Life of Abraham Lincoln; coln; Life of George Peabody; Lucretia Quakeress; Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; and Found; The Best of Books and its History; Frank Nelson, the Runaway Boy; The Soldier's Daughter; Field, Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del of Dickens; and From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems.