This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2RB.2ACE/7962.2 Message Board Post: googling hannibal hamlin -lots of stuff incld:Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Hamlin served in the Maine Legislature and later the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate. Hamlin began his career as a Democrat but later became a member of the Republican Party. He was Governor of Maine before being elected Vice President as Abraham Lincoln's running mate in the 1860 presidential election. Hamlin was born in the Paris Hill district of South Paris, Maine, in Oxford County. He attended the district schools and Hebron Academy there, and later managed his father's farm. For the next few years he worked at several jobs: schoolmaster, cook, woodcutter, surveyor, manager of a weekly newspaper in Paris, and a compositor at a printer's office. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He began practicing in Hampden, where he lived until 1848. He died in Bangor, Maine, on July 4, 1891 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. He had two sons, Charles Hamlin and Cyrus Hamlin, who served in the Union forces during the Civil War. Charles and sister Sarah were present at Ford's Theater the night of Lincoln's assassination. His son Hannibal Emery Hamlin was Maine state Attorney General from 1905 to 1908. There are biographies by his grandson Charles E. Hamlin (printed 1899, reprinted 1971) and H.D. Hunt (printed 1969). Father: Cyrus Hamlin (physician, d. 1829) Mother: Anna Livermore Wife: Sarah Jane Emery (m. 1833, d. Apr-1856, tuberculosis) Wife: Ellen Vesta Emery (m. Sep-1856)(sisters accd to one source) Son: Charles Hamlin (b. 13-Sep-1837, by Sarah) Son: Cyrus Hamlin (b. 26-Apr-1839, d. 28-Aug-1867, by Sarah) Daughter: Sarah (by Sarah) Son: Hannibal Emery Hamlin hannibal hamlin hall, university maine http://www.umaine.edu/Locator/BuildingDisplay.asp?BldgName=Hannibal%20Hamlin%20Hall with that said 1900 census cumberland county maine, brunswick, hamlin (all b maine to p b maine) charles age 56, dec 1843 farmer m 30 yrs to ethel 54, b feb 1846; francis a 29, b june 1870, sch teacher; truman l., 26, b. feb 1874, college prof; james a., 20 b july 1879, student.