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 HEMPL

HEMPSTEAD

Washington (Smith) Lind. Erskine college con- ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1865. He died at Due West, S.C, July 38, 1876.

HEMPL, George, educator, was born at White- water, Wis., June 6, 1859; son of Henry Theodore and Anna (Haentzsche) Hempel, both natives of Dresden, Germany. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1879, and was principal of the Jiigh schools at Saginaw, Mich., 1879-83, and La Porte, Ind., 1883-81; and an instructor in German at Johns Hopkins university, 1884-86. He studied at Gottingen, Tubingen, Strassburg, Jena and Berlin, 1886-89, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Jena in 1889. He was assistant professor, then junior professor of English at the University of ^Michigan, 1889-97, and was made professor of English philology and general linguistics in 1897. He wrote in part under the pen-name Rudolf H. Rheinhardt, and is the author of: Whist Scores and Card- Table Talk (1887); Old-English Phonology (1893); Chaucer's Pronunciation (1893) ; German Orthography and Phonology (1897) ; English Xursery Mimes in German (1898); a German Grammar (1900), and many con- triljutions to periodicals.

HE/MPSTEAD, Edward, delegate, was born in New London, Conn., June 3, 1780; son of Stephen and Mary (Lewis), grandson of Stephen and Sarah (Holt), great-grandson of Joshua and Abigal, great^ grandson of Joshua and Elizabeth (Larrabee), andgreat^ grandson of Robert Hemp- stead who is supposed to have come from Milford Haven, Wales, settled first on Long I.sland where he founded the town of Hempstead, and later re- moved to New London, Conn., where he was one of the nine original settlers. His wife was Joanna Willie. Edward Hempstead's father, Stephen, was with the first troops assembled in Boston after the battle of Lexington, participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was sergeant in the company of Capt. Nathan Hale, the martyr spy, whom he accompanied on his fatal mission. In 1811 he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where his son had preceded him. Edward Hempstead re- ceived a classical education under the Rev. Amos Bassett of Hebron, Conn. He began the practice of law in Connecticut in 1801, and removed thence to Newport, R.I., where he was a partner of the Hon. Asher Robbins. He left Newport in June, 1804, and travelled on horse- back to Vincennes, Indiana Territory, removing in the fall to the district of St. Charles, in the territory of Upper Louisiana, and in the fall of 1805 to St. Louis. He was deputy attorney-gen- eral for the districts of St. Louis and St. Charles, Territory of Upper Louisiana, 1806-09, and attor- ney-general, 1809-13. On Nov. 3, 1813, he was elected a delegate to the 13th congress, serving 1813-14. He died at St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10, 1817.

HEMPSTEAD, Stephen, governor of Iowa, was born in New London, Conn., Oct. 1, 1813; eighth son of Joseph and Celinda (Hutchinson) Hempstead; grandson of Stephen and Mary (Lewis) Hempstead; and a nephew of the Hon. Edward Hempstead (1780-1817). Joseph Hemp- stead emigrated with his family to St. Louis, Mo., in 1828, and settled on a farm near Belle- fontaine. Mo., and about five miles from the city of St. Louis, given him by his brother, Edward Hempstead. In 1830 young Stephen with his brother Samuel went to Galena, 111. , where they soon found congenial emyjloyment as clerks in general stores. On the outbreak of the Black Hawk war Stephen joined an artillery company and at the close of the war, entered Illinois col- lege, Jacksonville, where his bi'other Samuel was a student. The college had just been organized and had no regular curriculem established and he left in 1833, the first class not graduating until 1835. He studied law for one year in St. Louis, and two years under his uncle, Charles S. Hemp- stead, at Galena. He settled in Dubuque in 1836, the first at- torney to enter upon the practice of law in that place. He was married, June 15, 1837, to Lavinia Moore Lackland,

Upon the organiza- tion of the territorial government of Iowa in 1838 Hempstead, with Gen. Warner Lewis, was elected to represent the northern portion of the territory in the legislative council, at Burlington, and he was made chairman of the judiciary committee. At tlie .second .session and again in 1845 he was president of the coun- cil. In 1844 he was elected a delegate to the first convention met to frame the state constitu- tion and was chairman of the committee on incorporation. In 1845 he was appointed one of three commissioners to revise the laws which became "The Code of Iowa of 1851." He was nominated by the Democratic party for governor of Iowa, and was inaugurated in January, 1851, serving, 1851-54. In 1855 he was elected county judge of Dubuque county and held the oflSce by successive re-elections till it was abolished by law in 1869. He was auditor of Dubuque coimty from 1869 till 1873 when faihng health compelled him to resign. His last office was that of justice of the peace which he held until his death. He died in Dubuque, Iowa, Feb. 16, 1883.