William S. Haymond

William S. Haymond

William Summerville Haymond (born February 20, 1823 in Clarksburg , Virginia , †  December 24, 1885 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Haymond was born in 1823 near Clarksburg in what is now West Virginia . He attended public schools in his home country and then studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City . After his approval as a doctor in 1852, he began to practice in Monticello (Indiana) in this profession. During the civil war , he was a military doctor in the Union Army in 1862 and 1863 .

Politically, Haymond was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for the Indiana Senate . Then he got into the railroad business. From 1872 to 1874 he was president of a railway company. In the congressional election of 1874 Haymond was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Republican Henry B. Sayler on March 4, 1875 . Since he lost to William H. Calkins in 1876 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1877 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, William Haymond resumed his previous activities. In 1877 he founded the Central Medical College in Indianapolis, of which he remained dean until his death. In 1879 he published a treatise on the history of Indiana. He died on December 24, 1885 in Indianapolis, where he was also buried.

Web links

• William S. Haymond in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Haymond in the database of Find a Grave (English)