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3180 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSpublic schools; Frank, born in 1903, also a public school student; and Caroline,born in 1909.COL. SAMUEL HAMMOND, a Virginian, born in Richmond County in 1757,was one of the bravest, and, despite his young manhood, one of the ablestof the patriot officers. His military services, during the Revolution, coveredimportant operations in the North and South. During the later period ofthe war he was one of General Greene's most trusted subordinates. He waswith him at Eutaw Springs, and soon afterward Governor Rutledge appointedhim to the command of a regiment of cavalry. Soon after the Revolution hesettled at Savannah; was afterward elected to the State Legislature and appointed surgeyor-general of the state, and engaged in extensive mercantiletransactions which brought him into touch with South American trade andgained him a knowledge of both French and Spanish. In 1802 he was electedto Congress, where he renewed his acquaintance with President Jefferson. In1804 he was appointed military and civil commander of the District of St.Louis, one of the civil subdivisions of the new Territory of Louisiana, recentlyacquired from France, and in the spring of that year he set out for that littleFrench village on the western frontier, accompanied by his wife and 200family servants. For years Governor Haininond's mansion was headquartersfor army officers and their families and the social center for the Territory ofMissouri, created in 1812. Colonel Hammond was president of the First Territorial Council, or civil governor. In 1816 he organized the first bank inSt. Louis, of which he was president. Although caught in the failure of several local banks, he sacrificed most of his personal property to pay his debtsand in 1824 returned to the South, locating in South Carolina. That statealso honored him by appointment to the surveyor-generalship and election tothe Legislature and to the office of secretary of state. He died on September11, 1842, at his farm on Horse Shoe Creek, three miles below Augusta on theSouth Carolina side.JUDSON LAREABEE HAND, of Pelham, Georgia, planter, manufacturer,banker and an extensive dealer in planter's supplies, is a native of the stateborn on his father's plantation near Perry, Houston County, March 20, 1851.He graduated from the University of Georgia at the age of twenty and firstengaged in agriculture and the lumber business at Pelham. His interestsgrew until at one time he owned more than 30,000 acres of land, much of itwooded. In 1876 he commenced a general merchandise business. Afterwardhe also dealt largely in naval stores. These enterprises have gradually developed into such corporations as the Hand Trading Company, the Farmer'sBank, the Pelham Oil and Fertilizer Company, the Pelham ManufacturingCompany, the Abington Cotton Mills and the Flint River & NortheasternRailroad. Mr. Hand has been mayor of Pelham and a member of both housesof the Legislature.DE. LAMABTINE GRIFFIN HAEDMAN, a leading physician and public manof Commerce, Jackson County, was born in that village in 1856. He receivedhis professional education and training in New York and London, and hasbeen the mentor of not a few successful practitioners of the younger generation himself. In 1892 he founded the North Eastern Banking Company ofCommerce, of which he is president; he put in operation the first oil mill ofhis section and is at the head of the Hardman Oil Mill and Ginnery; is alsopresident of the Hardman Flour Mills, the Harmony Grove Cotton Mills andthe Hardman Hardware Company. He has represented Georgia in the Legislature for a number of years, was the author of the state board of health, andin 1907, while serving in the State Senate, was mainly instrumental in framing and incorporating into law the famous prohibition measure known as