Local News -- Personal
Hannibal Hamlin, Esq., a cousin of the Vice President [also named Hannibal Hamlin] of the United States died last night before last at his boarding house on F street, in this city, of consumption. Mr. Hamlin at the time of his death was employed as a clerk in the office of the Third Auditor, and was President of the Freedmen's Relief Association.
Hamlin. The late Hannibal Hamlin, the body of the late Hannibal Hamlin (a relative of the Vice President) was interred in the Congressional Burial Ground yesterday, Among those in attendance were the Rev. Dr. Gurley, Rev. Dr. Channing, Rev. John Pierpont, Judge Underwood, Hon. R.J. Atkinson and Rev. Mrs. Lyman Abbott of Terre Haute, Ind. a daughter of the deceased. Mr. H. was the president of the Freedman's Society of this city.
Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. XI, pages 22-31
Abigail Abbott was born in Temple, Me., June 20, 1815, and died in Waverley, Mass., June 1, 1857. She married in Temple, February 5, 1835, Hannibal Hamlin of Waterford. He lived in Waterford until 1840, in Union until 1842, and in Boston until 1861. He then entered the government U.S. Treasury department at Washington, D.C., where he died, November 16, 1862. He was a man of high character and a writer both in prose and poetry for the periodicals of his day.
Local News -- Personal
Hannibal Hamlin, Esq., a cousin of the Vice President [also named Hannibal Hamlin] of the United States died last night before last at his boarding house on F street, in this city, of consumption. Mr. Hamlin at the time of his death was employed as a clerk in the office of the Third Auditor, and was President of the Freedmen's Relief Association.
Hamlin. The late Hannibal Hamlin, the body of the late Hannibal Hamlin (a relative of the Vice President) was interred in the Congressional Burial Ground yesterday, Among those in attendance were the Rev. Dr. Gurley, Rev. Dr. Channing, Rev. John Pierpont, Judge Underwood, Hon. R.J. Atkinson and Rev. Mrs. Lyman Abbott of Terre Haute, Ind. a daughter of the deceased. Mr. H. was the president of the Freedman's Society of this city.
Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. XI, pages 22-31
Abigail Abbott was born in Temple, Me., June 20, 1815, and died in Waverley, Mass., June 1, 1857. She married in Temple, February 5, 1835, Hannibal Hamlin of Waterford. He lived in Waterford until 1840, in Union until 1842, and in Boston until 1861. He then entered the government U.S. Treasury department at Washington, D.C., where he died, November 16, 1862. He was a man of high character and a writer both in prose and poetry for the periodicals of his day.
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Hannibal Hamlin
Waterford, Me.
January 30, 1809
Washington D.C.
November 13, 1862.
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Your brother and Companion
in tribulation, and in the Kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ.
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