General Thomas Lyon Hamer 1800-1846

General Thomas Lyon Hamer 1800-1846 is an Ohio historical marker in Brown County.

Brown County · 219 E. Grant Avenue, Georgetown, OH, 45121 -- U. S. Grant Boyhood Home State Historic Site

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Side A: Teacher — Lawyer — Congressman — Soldier. Master Mason (1824). Georgetown Lodge No. 72.Free and Accepted Masons. ” . . . Hamer was one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced . . . I have always believed that had his life been spared, he would have been President of the United States . . .” Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs, Vol. 1. [Masonic Emblem] Side B: Same

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Marker data: Ohio Historical Markers program, Ohio History Connection (Remarkable Ohio)

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