Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — COL. EDWIN P. HAMMOND DEAD [ARTICLE]

COL. EDWIN P. HAMMOND DEAD

Vitoru Soldiir and Jurist Died at Home In Lafayetta Tuesday. BURIAL TO BE IN RENSSELAER Funeral Services Will Probably Be Held Friday—Arrangements Not Vet Fully Completed. Edwin P. Hammond, aged 84, one of the oldest Jurists of the civil' war colonels in the state, died at his home in Lafayette yesterday morning. He had been ill for a week and Saturday the members of this family were eumlmoned to his bedside, there being little hope for his recovery. Mr. Hammond was a life-long resident of Indiana and was graduated from Depauw university in 1857. He practiced law and resided at Rensselaer for a number of years and went to the civil war, Where he advanced from a noncommissioned office to th*e office of colonel of the 87th Indiana volunteers. He was judge of the circuit court in the thirtieth judicial district and in 1883 was appointed to the supreme court of Indiana. He was a member of the board of directors of the National Soldiers’ home and was for a long time prominent in Republican party affairs. A brother, Abraham A. Hammond, was many years ago governor of Indiana. Funeral arrangements had not been completed when The Democrat went to press, although it was understood the interment would be made in Weston cemetery in Rensselaer.