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was one

of the organizers of the international electrical congress at St. Louis, Mo. In 1896-1906 he was president of the international congress on standard electrical rules; and was chairman of the Jamestown exposition aeronautical congress. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of congress. lie is the author of Radium and other Radio-Active Suhstanei-s; and

numerous engineering and

Mono-

scientific

graphs.

Hammersley, William, lawyer,

was

jiirist.

was the founder and first j)resident of tbt bank of Quitman; and became county and probate judge of ("leburne county. Ark. Hammitt, Joseph Otis, journalist and secretarv of 41 Park Row, New York Citv. was born Aug. 6, 1883. in Kingston, N.Y. He has been connected as correspondent with the Brooklyn Times and the New York Evening Post. In 1909 he was in charge of the literary bureau of the citizens' committee of one hundred in New York City campaign. He is now secretary of the citizens' union of New

York City.

born Sept. 9. IS.'iS. in Hartford. Conn. In 186.5-68 he was city attorney of Hartford. Conn.; and in 1868-88 was state's attorney. In 1893-94 he was judge of the supi-rior court. From 1894 to 1908 he was assofiate

ernor,

justice of the state supreuie court of rrrors.

California

He

is

now

rt'tired

under cnnstitutional age

limitation and resides in Hartford.

C'oiui.

Hammet, William J., clergyman. congreHSman. was born in Virginia. He was chaplain of the university of Virginia: and was at one time chaplain of congress. In 18434') he was a representative from ^Tississippi to the twenty-eighth congress. He died in Mississippi.

Hammett, Frederick W., railroad president, founder, was born .Tiily 14, 18.')9, in Philadelphia. Pa. In 1900 he constructed the Philadelphia, Morton and Swarthmore street railway and iK-eame its president. Hammett, Samuel A., journalist, author, was born in 1816 in .Towett City, Conn. He was the author of A Stray Ya?ikee in Texas;

and The Wonderful Adventures Priest.

He

died Dec. 24,

ise."),

Brooklyn.

H.,

congn ssman, was

born in Virginia. He was chaplain of the university of Virginia and the Virginia house of representativt s. In 1843-4.'» he was a representative from Mississippi to the twentyeighth congress as a democrat. He died in Mississippi.

Hammock.William Thomas, educator, lawh'oturtr. jurist, foiuidor. author, was

yer,

iKirn Dec. 24, 1866, in ('alhuitinnn. Ark., in which city lie is now Nuccc>s!iilly engaged in the practice of law. He is an able writer on current topics, and a brilliant orator. In 1899-1903 he was a nu'mber ot the Arkansits Ktaite senate. He

A.,

lawyer, jurist, gov-

was born in March, 1814, in BrattleHe was a judge of the court of

Vt.

He moved to but returned to Indiana at Terrc Haute; and in 1860-61 he was ine eleventh governor of Indiana. He died Aug. 27, 1874, in Denver, Colo.

conunon pleas in

18.'>4,

in

in

Indianapolis.

iS.Vi,

l(H*ating

Hammond, Anthony, lawyer, author. He was the author of Law of Nisi Prius; ParActions; Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code; Forgery; I'rartice and Proc«'edings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Reports; Criminal Code: ties to

and Simple Larceny.

Hammond, Caleb Holten, physician, was born Aug. 14, 1821, in Rochester, N.Y. In 1S42 he graduated from the Geneva medical college. From 1846 he practiced medicine in Rochester, N.Y. He died in 1883 in Ionia, Mich.

Hammond,

of Captain

in

X.V.

Hammett, William

Hammond, Abram Iniro,

Charles, lawyer, journalist, au-

thor, was born in September. 1779, in BalliMU)re county, Md. He was a member of tlio Ohio state legislature in 1816-18 and 1820. In 182.-)-40 he edited the Cincinnati in 1823-38 was reporter of the supreme court. He published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1821-39, in nine volumes. He died April 3, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gazette; and Oliio

Hammond,

Addison, clergyman, author, was born In early life he was an active alwlitionist. and the intimate friend of (Jerrit Smith, the famous attolitionist. philantliropist and reformer. He has always been an earnest temperance reformer: and is one «>f the leading prohibiti.'islator. was born .Tan. 15, 1841, in OakIiind county. Mich. During the civil war be served in the t wenty-secon«l and twentyninth regiments .Michigan volunteer infantry. In 1H!»8 lie served as a representative in tlie Michi^'an state legislature.

Hammond, Dudley Whitlock, surgeon, aui

.or.

was born May

12,

1809,

in

Pickens

In 18."»3 he removed to Macon. the author of a ]>aiH'r on An Improved Plan for Extracting Urethral Calculi. He died in Macon, Ga. ••ounty. S.C. (Ja.

He

is