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Samuel H. Hammond

Samuel H. Hammond, 1809 - 1878, was a son of Lazarus Hammond, founder of the village of Hammondsport. Samuel Hammond was a lawyer, admitted to practise in 1831. In 1843 he moved to Albany, but returned to Bath in 1857 and became a partner with A. P. Ferris. In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1864 he moved to Watertown, and died there in 1878.

S. H. Hammond authored the following books: Wild Northern Scenes (1857), Hills, Lakes and Forest Streams, (1854), and coauthored with L.W. Mansfield, Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist, (1855).

Excerpts from Country Margins and Rambles appeared in the July through October 1990 and May 1991 issues of The Crooked Lake Review, and an excerpt from Wild Northern Scenes in Summer 2002.

Bath, 1855 Climbing on the Falls in "the Gulf" at Hammondsport, 1857
Canandaigua, 1855 Penn Yan and Keuka Lake, 1855
Bluff Point and Keuka Lake, 1855 Welles' Point and Ingersoll's Point on Keuka Lake, 1855
   
 
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