Justice Edwin Pollock Hammond
(Thirty-fourth Justice)

Justice Hammond was born November 26, 1835, in Brookville, Indiana, and died January 27, 1920, in Lafayette, Indiana.³²³

He moved to Columbus, Indiana, when he was fourteen, and later studied law in Indianapolis.³²⁴ In 1857, he was admitted to the senior law class at Asbury (now DePauw) University.³²⁵ Hammond was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1858.³²⁶

He practiced for two years prior to enlisting in the Union Army during the Civil War.³²⁷ After the war, he was appointed a circuit judge and he won election to a full term in 1878.³²⁸ He went from his circuit court seat to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1883.³²⁹ He sat on the high court from May 14, 1883, until January 6, 1885.³³⁰ He returned to private practice briefly, and then served two more years as a circuit judge.³³¹ He was also a trustee of Purdue University.³³²

Source: Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices." Indiana Law Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, 1997. View this source in PDF format.