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Hammond, William Alexander, j)liy9ioian, autlior, wais born Ang. 28, 1828, in AnnapoliH, Md. He was curgt'on jjeni-ral of tin- I nitt tl States army in 1802-64; and now on the n-tired li.st an briKadit-r-general and surgeon -general. He was the author of MilPhysiological Essays; Sleep itary Hypit-ni au.l Its Uerangj inents; Nervous Derangenu-ntH: Physiological Memoirs; LectureH on Venereal Dii^eaaea: Wakefulness; Insanity in Its Medieo-I^gal Relations; Physics and i'hy.siulogy of Spiritualism; Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and Its Medical R« lations; Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperaemia; and also Neurological Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lai; Dr. Grattan; Mr. OMniixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; ami 'n tin Susquehanna. He died Jan. 5, lUOU, in Washington. D.C. Hammond, William Alexander, i-ilucator, author, was born May 2o, 1861, in New .Athens, Ohio. In 1885 be graduated from university Harvard with the degree ot A.B.: in 1887 received the degree of .A.M. from King's college: and in 1891 received the degree of Ph.D. from I^ipzig university. In 1885-88 he wa'i lertnrer on elast*tir^'»'(»ii.

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at King's college Winilsor, N.S. In lS!il fc2 he was instrintor and since 181)8 has been Sage ].r"it >sor of ancient and meiliaeval pliilosopliy ami at -t het Ich at Cornell university at Ithaca. N.^'.: and secretary of the university faculty. Tie is a memlx-r of the .American piiilological association, the .American psychological association and the American philoso|ilii(aI association; is president of the Country chih of Ithaca. X.Y. and a representative of logic at the congresses of arts and science at the international exposition in 10i>4 at St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of Tl«e Characters of -i<-

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Theophrastus; Aristotle's Psychology; anil other elasaical studies and philosophical Monographs. He died about 1906. Hammond, William Churdtill, organist of Holyf)ke. Afasfl.. was born Nov 25. 1860, in Rockville. Conn. He studied music in Hartford and New A'ork City; and si nee 188.') habeen organist of the Second Congregational church of Holyoke. In 1800-1900 he was in-

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structor in the organ department of Smith college; and since lUOO has been jirofessor of music at the Mount Holyoke college, lie haa given over eight hundred organ recitals in th«' Connecticut valley Hammond, William Gardiner, lawyer, educator, founder, was bom May 3, 1820, in Newport, R.I. In he began the practice of law in New York City. In 1881 he was d«an of the St. Ixniis law school. He was the originator of the We-tern .lurist, and was its cliief e. He has traveh' the common schools and at Dartmouth college. In 1884-00 he was a high school principal in Minn<-ofa. Siiic« H!)l he has been a practicing attorney ut-law. For six years he was county attorney of Watonwan county, Minn.; ami for eight years has been a memlier of the state board of normal school directors. In 1007-lfi he was a representative >

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Mammons, David, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was bom in 1807 in Oxford connty. Maine. He was a member of the Maine stale senate in 1840-41; and in 18474!) he WHS a representative from Maine to the thirtieth congress. He died in Bethel. Maine. Hammons. Joseph, coti^i i'-.vnian. was bom .33 he was a in Farmington. NJI. In representative from New Hampshire to the twenty-first and twenty-second congresses. '

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Hamp, Sidford Frederick, writer, author, was born March 10, 1855, in England. Since