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 2 SO HAMILTON. HAMMOND. fered the presidency of his alma mater in Ohio, and a committee came to Boston to urge upon him the acceptance of the office. After careful consideration, he de- clined, preferring to remain in the pastorate. HAMILTON, SAMUEL K., son of Ben- jamin R. and Sarah (Carl) Hamilton, was born in Waterborough, York count) -, Maine, July 27, 1837. He was educated in the district school, Limerick Academy, public high school, Saco, Maine, and Chandler scientific school, Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1859, and re- ceived the degree of master of science in 1869. After his graduation he chose the pro- fession of law and pursued his legal studies in the office of Hon. Ira T. Drew at Alfred, Maine. Lie was admitted to the York county bar in June, 1872, and practiced in company with Mr. Drew at Alfred until 1867, when he removed to Biddeford, Maine, and remained there till 1872, when he removed to Wakefield and opened an office in Boston, where he is still in prac- tice. Mr. Hamilton was married in Newfield, Maine, February 13, 1867, to Annie E., daughter of Joseph B. and Harriet N. (Dam) Davis. They have no children. Mr. Hamilton was a member of the board of aldermen, Biddeford, 1870 and '71; member of the Maim- House of Representa- tives, 1872; member of the Wakefield school boanl nine years, six years of which he was chairman ; chairman of the board of select- men, 1SS7 and '88, and was for many years chairman of the board of trustees of the Beebe town library, which position he still holds. He has been treasurer of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston since its organi- zation. Mr. Hamilton was delegate to the na- tional Democratic convention in 1880, from the 5th congressional district of Massa- chusetts. In 1S83 when the people of W akefield were about erecting a handsome brick school building, they voted unani- mously in open town meeting that the same should be called " Hamilton school building," in recognition of Mr. Hamilton's valuable services in behalf of the public schools. HAMMOND, Edward H., son of Ed- ward and Lucy M. (Kimball) Hammond, was horn in Bradford, Essex county, Sep- tember 4, 1823. Receiving his early education in the public schools, he prepared for teaching under preceptor Benjamin Greenleaf of Bradford, and afterward fitted for college at Atkinson Academy, but was prevented from entering college by the state of his health. He first engaged in teaching in Haverhill in 1S47, anc l permanently in 1853, and later became the first principal of the Winter Street grammar school of that city. Here he remained until 1868, when he was appointed principal of the Bennett grammar school in Brighton, which was annexed to Boston in 1874. He re-organized and consolidated that school in the present building, erected in 1S73- '74, and continued in the service of the city of Boston at the head of that school until the fall of 1S82, when ill health obliged him to resign. He now lives in Groveland, retired from active duty, but still, as chairman of the school committee, maintains his interest in educational work. Mr. Hammond was married in Haver- hill, in 1856, to Dollie A., daughter of William H. and Mary (Patten) Nichols. They have no children. He was noble grand of Mutual Re- lief Lodge, I. O. O. F., Haverhill ; secre- tary Y. M. C. A. of Haverhill ; chairman and secretary of the Republican town com- mittee, and chairman of the school board, Groveland. He was also very influential in the establishment of the Groveland public library in 1888, and is the first president of the board of trustees. During an experience of nearly thirty years in teaching, he has had charge of only two schools, and has never been without a position. HAMMOND, John Wilkes, son of John Wilkes and Maria Louisa (South- worth) Hammond, was born December 16, 1837, in that part of Rochester, Plymouth county, now called Mattapoisett. His father died when he was five years old, and he was brought up in the village of Mattapoisett, attending the common district school. He was subsequently lit ted for college in the academy in his na- tive village, and was graduated from Tufts College in the class of 1861. He engaged in teaching in Stoughton, in 1861 and '62 ; in Tisbury, spring and summer of 1S62, and left the school one morning in September of that year to en- list in company I, 3d regiment, Massa- chusetts volunteers (nine months' regi- ment). He returned in June, 1863; taught the high school in Wakefield and Melrose, and then choosing the profession of law, prosecuted his legal studies in the office of