Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — Hon. E. P. Hammond, L. L. D. [ARTICLE]

Hon. E. P. Hammond, L. L. D.

Cur distinguished townsman, Hon. E. P. received last week another notable eyidence of the ever growing and widening esteem in which his high standing as a jurist and his great virtues as a citizen are held by the people of his state. Last Wednesday the faculty of Wabash College of Crawfordsville conferred npon the Judge the degree of L. L. D., (Doctor of Laws.) This is the highest University degree that can be confenjed, and is one that all conservative and high graded institutions, such as Wabash College, bestow but rarely, and only to those whose public services have been great and whose private virtues are above question. The degree was bestowed by the faculty of- the college upon recommendation of the trustees, and neither the Judge L nor any of his friends had received any previous intimation of the intended honor.