Isaac H. Hand Biography, 1877, Baker Co. GA File contributed for use in 
USGenWeb Archives by Laura Stotler (LStotler@aol.com)
Source: Brief Biographies of the Members of the Constitutional Convention. 
July 11, 1877. Atlanta, Georgia: The Constitutional Publishing Co., 1877, p. 87. 
(Family History Center Microfilm US/CAN #1,688,881) 
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I.H. Hand, Ninth District.

Isaac H. Hand, a prominent citizen of Baker county, and a delegate to the Convention
from the Ninth District, was born in Burke county, June 15th, 1822.  His paternal 
ancestors came from Holland during the seventeenth century and settled in the New World.
His mother's family was old and long-established in this State.	The subject of this
sketch received a good academical education in Houston county.  In 1846 he was 
married to Miss E. L. A. Bowen.  After teaching school two years, he studied 
medicine and received the degree of M. D. in 1851.  He practiced six years in 
Houston county, then moved to Baker county, where he has since resided, pursuing
his profession and farming.  He has never taken an active part in politics. 
He was sent as a delegate to the State Convention in 1865, and was a member 
of the Legislature in 1865-66.  Before the war, he was an old line Whig, 
but since the destruction of that party has acted with the Democrats.  
He is a man of fine judgment and is well informed on all the live questions of the day.

(His wife was actually Elizabeth Laura Antoinette Bower, not Bowen)