Scotland-Richmond County NcArchives Biographies.....Hamer, Alfred Wallace 1834 - 1911
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Alfred Wallace Hamer, M. D., 1834 - 1911

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A. W. HAMER, M. D., a leading physician of Richmond county, N. C., was born in 
Marlborough county, S. C., December 29, 1834.  Alfred and Martha (Wallace) 
Hamer, his parents, were natives of South and North Carolina, respectively.  
The father was a prominent planter, and was a man of influence and ability; a 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  He died in 1855, aged 
forty-nine years.  His widow still survives him with powers of mind and body 
remarkably well preserved, having attained the age of eighty years.  Of the 
fourteen children born to these parents, eleven reached maturity, and five are 
still living.  The son, A. W. Hamer, the principal of this mention, was 
educated in private schools in Marlborough county, S. C., and began the study 
of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. W. D. Wallace, of Bennettsville, and 
subsequently attending the course of lectures at the Charleston medical 
college, he was graduated from that famous institution with the class of 
1858.  Locating in Rockingham, he at once entered upon the active practice of 
his chosen profession, and continued at Rockingham with marked success until 
the secession of the state, when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-third 
regiment volunteer infantry, and served as a private until the following 
September, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability, 
and returned home.  In 1862 he went to Richmond, Va., where he received the 
appointment of acting assistant-surgeon in Hospital 20, at Richmond, and 
retained that office until 1863, when the hospital was closed.  Returning to 
South Carolina, he resumed his practice, and remained in Marlborough until 
January, 1881, when he removed to Laurinburg, N. C.  Dr. Hamer is a prominent 
member of the state medical association, and also of the Masonic fraternity, 
being a past master of his lodge, and is a member of the K. of P., having held 
the office of first district deputy grand chancellor of Laurinburg; the K. of 
H., and the K. & L. of H.  In 1864 Dr. Hamer married Miss Elizabeth Douglass, 
of Marlboro county, S. C., the daughter of Duncan Douglass, her mother being 
Sarah (McLaurin) Douglass, a sister of Duncan McLaurin, for whom the city of 
Laurinburg was named.  Dr. and Mrs. Hamer are the parents of these children:  
Sallie D., wife of Peter McIntosh; Mattie, Kate and Douglas, who is a member 
of the junior class in the state university, and Wallace, deceased at the age 
of ten years, in 1888.  Mrs. Hamer is a communicant of the Presbyterian 
church, while her husband and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, south.

Additional Comments:
Source:  McCrady, Edward and Ashe, Samuel A'Court, Cyclopedia of Eminent and 
Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, Volume II, 
Brant & Fuller, Madison, Wis., 1892, pp. 275-276

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