Hammond, Jabez D – Hamtramck, John Francis
Hammond, Jabez D
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, author, was senator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 2, 1778, in New Bedford, Mass.
He was a lawyer and popular political writer of New York . He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 to 1817, and, on the expiration of his term, was elected to the state senate, of which he was a member until 1821. He was elected county judge in 1838, and he was elected a regent of the university of New York, and held the office until his death. He published works entitled Julius Melbourn ; The Political History of New York; Life New York; Life and Times of Silas Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul. He died Aug. 18, 1855, in Cherry Valley, N.
Cherry Valley, N. Y.
Hammond, James B
inventor, was born April 23, 1839, in Boston, Mass. He April 23, 1839, in Boston, Mass. He invented the Hammond typewriter.
Hammond, James Henry
lawyer, journalist, governor, United States senator, author, was born Nov. 15, 1807, in Newbury district, S. C. He served his native state in congress from 1835 to 1837.
In 1841 he was appointed a general of militia; and in 1842 was elected governor of South Carolina. In 1857 he was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy.
He originated the expression Cotton is King. He was the author of The Pro-Slavery Argument. He died Nov. 13, 1864.
Hammond, John
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 27, , 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. 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, Le Roy
soldier, was born about 1740 in Richmond county, Va. In 1740 in Richmond county, Va. In 1779 he took the field with his regiment and played an and played an important part in the bat- Ferry. After the fall of Charleston he Charleston he adopted, like Marion and warfare, and was constantly engaged in fighting the loyalists, British and Indians . He died about 1800.
Hammond, Marcus Marcellus
soldier, author, was born CLAUDIUS Dec. 12, 1814, in Newberry district, S. C.
He was a United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican war.
He died Jan. 23, 1876, in Aiken county, S. C.
Hammond, Nathaniel J
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1833, in , 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 , was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died June 2, 1847.
Hammond, Samuel
soldier, statesman, was born Sept. 21, 1757, in Richborn Sept. 21, 1757, in Richmond county, Va. When the revolution broke out he displayed great bravery and ability at the battle of Long Bridge. In 1793 he headed a volunteer corps, and did good service in the Creek country. He served a number of years in the Georgia legislature; and was one of the early governors of the state. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1803 to 1805; and was appointed military and civil commandant of Upper Louisiana and receiver of public moneys in Missouri. He was also president of the bank of St. Louis. In 1824 he returned to South Carolina, and was elected to the legislature of that state; was appointed surveyor general; and in 1831 secretary of state. He died Sept. 11, 1842, in Augusta, Maine.
Hammond, Thomas
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Feb. 27, 1843, , 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.
Hammons, David
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1807, in , 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 Maine from 1847 to 1849.
Hammons, James Thompson
soldier, educator, lawyer, jurist, was born , educator , lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 9, 1845, in Middleton, Mass. He received his education at the Pennington college, Texas . He served nearly four years in the confederate army. For ten years he was engaged in educational work; for four years was editor of The Anchor of Eastland, Texas; and for six years served with distinction as county judge of his county. For nearly twenty years he has been in the active practice of law; and as an orator is known as the Demosthenes of the Post Oaks.
Hammons, Joseph
congressman. He was a representative in congress from a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1829 to 1833. He died in died in April, 1833, in Farmington, N. H.
Hampton, Charles S
journalist, legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in 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 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.
Hampton, Wade
soldier, governor, congressman, United States senator, was born March 28 , 1818, in Charleston, S. C.
At different times he served in both branches of the legislature, being a state senator at the time the state seceded. He resigned from the senate and entered the confederate army; and served with conspicuous gallantry, rising to the rank of major-general . He was elected governor of South Carolina in 1876, and was reelected in 1878. In December of the latter year he was elected a senator of the United States for the term of six years from March 4, 1879; and in 1885 was reelected for the term ending in 1891.
Hampton, William H
soldier, lawyer, was born July 15, 1842, in Montgom- , was born July 15, 1842, in Montgomery, Ala. He received his education at the Altamont academy of Tennessee. During the war he served as captain of the tenth regiment Tennessee cavalry.
He became county treasurer of Grundy county, Tenn .; and subsequently served as assistant United States marshal. He has become prominent as an able lawyer of Tracy City , Tenn.
Hamtramck, John Francis
soldier, statesman, jurist, was born in 1798, , 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 ], 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 Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del of Dickens; and From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems.