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Hemphill, John, 1803-1862

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Personal name headingHemphill, John, 1803-1862
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1803-12-18
Death date1862-01-04
Place of birthBlackstock (S.C.)
Place of deathRichmond (Va.)
AffiliationTexas. Supreme Court Confederate States of America. Provisional Congress
Profession or occupationJudges Legislators
Found inHis Eulogy on the life and character of the Hon. Thomas J. Rusk ... 1857: t.p. (John Hemphill)
MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Hemphill, John, 1803-1862)
Finding aid for Hemphill family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Nov. 23, 2020 (Papers include scattered letters between various individuals of the Hemphill, Nixon, and Adair families of South Carolina and Texas, regarding family news and history, marriages and deaths in the family, and an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans; an 1815 devotional poem written for the Battle of New Orleans; a letter from George F. Moore regarding his quotation of Hon. John Hemphill's opinion in the Dred Scott case and an obituary for Hemphill's death; receipts; a biographical sketch of Hon. John Hemphill and Robert Nixon Hemphill (1816-1891); a memorandum on James Clark Brawley and his family; remarks on the descendants of Reverend John Hemphill, D.D.; and pamphlets including biographical works and eulogies on members of the Adair and Hemphill families and other short works of local history pertaining to the Hemphill family)
   <https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/01285/>
Handbook of Texas WWW site, Nov. 23, 2020 (Hemphill, John; born in Blackstock, Chester District, South Carolina, on December 18, 1803, died in Richmond, on January 4, 1862; immigrated to Texas in 1838; lawyer and judge; chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court; served in the Texas Senate; member of the Provisional Confederate Congress)
   <https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hemphill-john>
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