History of Columbia, (Washington County) Maine United States of America

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Augustus Choate Hamlin, physician, was born in Columbia, Maine, Aug. 28, 1829; son of Elijah Livermore and Eliza Bradley (Choate) Hamlin: grandson of Cyrus and Anna (Livermore) Hamlin, and a descendant of James Hamlin, who settled at Barnstable, Cape Cod, Mass., in 1639. He was prepared for college at the Bangor schools and Yarmouth academy, 1846-65, was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1851, studied medicine in Paris, and was graduated from the Harvard medical school in 1855. At the outbreak of the civil war he raised and fitted out a company at his own expense and joined the 2d Maine infantry as assistant surgeon in May, 1816. He served in several battles and became brigade surgeon, April, 1862; was medical director of the 11th corps, 1862-63, and was made medical inspector of the U.S. army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, February, 1863. He served in the army of the Potomac, army of Western Virginia, army of the South, at the siege of Fort Wagner, and in the army of the Southeast during the Nashville campaign on the staff of Gen. George H. Thomas, until mustered out in November, 1865. He returned to Bangor, Maine, and there engaged in general practice. He was commissioner front Maine to the Yorktown centennial in 1881, surgeon-general of Maine, 1882-86, and mayor of Bangor in 1877 and 1878. He was a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, a member of various scientific societies, and was made chevalier in the order of St. Anne by the Czar of Russia in 1878. He is the author of: Martyria, or Andersonville Prison (Boston, 1866); Tourmaline (1873); Leisure Hours among the Gems (1884); History of Mt. Mica, Maine (1895); The Battle of Chancellorsville (1896); and articles on Alimentation, Transfusion, Transmission qf Diseases and Tetatns contributed to the medical jonrnals.

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

History of Columbia, (Washington County) Maine

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