BIO: Conrad HAMBLETON, Cumberland County, PA
  
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 16-17 
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  CONRAD HAMBLETON, of the firm of Wetzel & Hambleton, attorneys-at-law, is of
  Southern ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Oliver E. Hambleton, was a
  native of near Danville, Va., where he was a prominent practicing physician and
  a leading citizen.
  
  Dr. Hambleton had a son named John White Hambleton, who acquired a liberal
  education and selected the law as his profession. He settled at Memphis, Tenn.,
  where the breaking out of the war between the States found him already in
  possession of a fair practice. Being a native of the South, and in sympathy
  with the sentiment of his section, he entered the Confederate army and served
  continuously from the beginning to the end of the war, receiving dangerous
  wounds, which, along with the fact that he rose to the rank of brigadier
  general, are conclusive proofs that he was a brave man and true to the cause
  which he believed to be right. Though living at the end of four years of hard
  campaigning he was in straitened circumstances and compelled to begin life
  anew. A short time after the close of the war he became acquainted with Miss
  Josephine Dallas Conrad, to whom he was married on Nov. 24, 1866. Miss Conrad
  was a native of Baltimore, Md., and daughter of Dr. A. M. H. Conrad, a
  physician, who died Sept. 9, 1855, in a yellow fever epidemic at Vicksburg,
  Miss., when in his thirty-sixth year; her mother was Mary Elderkin, daughter of
  William Elderkin, who in 1812 was one of the defenders of Baltimore, where he
  was a merchant in his earlier years, subsequently removing to Philadelphia,
  where he died when past ninety years of age.
  
  John W. and Josephine D. (Conrad) Hambleton had one child, a son named Conrad
  Hambleton, who is the subject of this sketch. He was born at Mason's Depot,
  Tipton Co., Tenn., Sept. 8, 1867. Several years afterward Mrs. Hambleton
  removed to Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pa., where her mother had previously
  located, and there Conrad Hambleton passed the years of his childhood and
  youth. From the time he reached the legal age he attended the public schools of
  his town, and, that his hands as well as his mind might be given proper
  training, when thirteen years of age he entered a printing office and for four
  years schooled himself in the art of printing. After passing through the
  Waynesboro public schools he entered upon a three years course in Dickin-
  
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  son Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., from which institution he graduated in
  1888. After graduating from the seminary he for two years taught in the public
  schools of Waynesboro, employing what spare hours he had at studying law under
  the instruction of O. C. Bowers, Esq., of Chambersburg. He was admitted to the
  Franklin county Bar in April, 1891, and immediately afterward opened an office
  at Waynesboro, where he remained until the spring of 1892, with the experience
  young lawyers usually undergo in their efforts at building up a practice. In
  1892 he removed to Carlisle, where he settled permanently, and thenceforth gave
  to his profession his exclusive attention. For several years he practiced by
  himself, but in April, 1896, he entered into partnership with J. W. Wetzel,
  Esq., under the firm name of Wetzel & Hambleton, through which association he
  has become interested in much of the most important litigation in the courts of
  Cumberland county.
  
  Mr. Hambleton is a studious and methodical lawyer. He gives business entrusted
  to him prompt attention, carefully prepares his cases, and tries them with a
  directness and force regarded as commendable in attorneys much older and more
  experienced. In politics, he is a Democrat both by inheritance and conviction,
  and is sometimes discussed by the leaders of his party for public position, but
  as his chief delight lies in the practice of his profession he has thus far
  uniformly declined to be a candidate for anything.