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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam Summerville HAYMOND
(1823-1885)
HAYMOND, William
Summerville, a Representative from Indiana; born near
Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 20,
1823; attended the common schools and was graduated from Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, New York City; commenced the practice of
his profession at Monticello, Ind., in 1852; during the Civil War
entered the Union Army as a surgeon in 1862 and served one year;
unsuccessful candidate for the State senate in 1866; president of
the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Railroad Co. 1872-1874;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4,
1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876
to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed his former professional and
business activities; organized the Central Medical College in
Indianapolis in 1877 and was dean until his death; published in
1879 a history of Indiana; died in Indianapolis, Ind., December 24,
1885; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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