Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — Col. E. P. Hammond Honored: [ARTICLE]

Col. E. P. Hammond Honored:

Col. Edwin P. Hammond now of Lafayette but so long a resident of Rensselaer, was Wednesday honor ml by the congress of the United States electing him a member of the board of managers of the na tional homes for disab'ed soldiers. Thare is no salary attached to the position, hut it comes in such a a way that it is deemed a high h mor by any man Oil. Hammons has been elected to succeed Vfaj »r George W. Steele, of M non, who resigned to accept the position of governor of the National Soldier*’ home at Marion (Jul. Hammond made an excellent record as a soldier and today affiliates with the Grand Army of the Republic; The Union Vet rau Legion and the Lcyal Leyiou. He went to the front at the beginning of the civil war from Rensse'aer as a member of the Ninth Indiana infantry, served for three months in West Virginia and took p-irt in the first battle of the Civil war. L<ternewas made ooioneL of the 87th Indian 1 infantry and served with that command until the dose of the war. He has gained eminence in his profession as an attorney, having served on the supreme bench of Indiana and haviuw filled the position of presi-d-i>t of the state bar association Col |Bsmmond is eminently w rtbv of the honor that was Wednesday bestowed upon him by CJDgD Bi