History of Southampton, (Hampshire County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Biographies:

Alvan Wentworth Chapman, botanist, was born at Southampton, Mass., Sept. 28, 1809; descended from English ancestry. He was graduated at Amherst college in 1830; taught in private and public schools of Georgia, 1831-35, at the same time pursuing studies preparatory for the medical profession, until February, 1835, when he removed to Florida and studied medicine at Quincy. He received the degree of M.D. from the medical institute of Louisville, Ky., in 1846. Soon afterwards he removed to Appalachicola, Fla., where he practised his profession until 1880, when he retired. In the reconstruction period he held the offices of collector of internal revenue, and afterwards collector of customs at the port of Appalachicola, and for several years was judge of probate for Franklin county, Fla. In 1860 he published Flora of the Southern United States. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1886. He died in 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, senator, was born in Southampton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1816. He attended Amherst college, Mass., and after residing for several years in New York city, returned to Southampton. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1852-53; was an organizer and the financial agent of the New England Emigrant Aid company, and in 1854 established a colony in Lawrence, Kan. He removed to Atchison, Kan., and was elected mayor of the city in 1859; was a member of the Free State convention that met in Lawrence in 1859, and during the famine in Kansas, 1860-61, he was president of the relief committee. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1856 and 1860, and a Republican U.S. senator from Kansas, 1861-73. By reason of his advocacy of subsidy measures while in congress, charges of bribery were preferred against him in 1873, and he was defeated for re-election that year, but after a careful investigation the charges were not sustained. He resided in Washington, D.C., for several years and died in Whitinsville, Mass., Aug. 27, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor