Rolland O. Hammond

From the Sears Genealogical Catalogue:

https://archive.org/details/searsgenealogica00sear/page/n239

3698. ii. Roland O. Hammond [4424]

• Born: 7 July 1826
• Died: 12 Jan. 1867
• Spouse: Malvina A. Harris [4432]
• Married: 8 June 1851
• SPMN p. 119. Rolland was a prominent lawyer, polician, etc., of Akron, Ohio.

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From History between the pages: Looking at 19th Century America through the writing of Samuel Alanson Lane:

https://exhibits.library.villanova.edu/lane/politics/

From an account by Lane of one of his first experiences running for State Legislature in the Fall of 1853:

Well, in accordance with this arrangement, the Whigs nominated Dr Porter G. Somers, of Cuyahoga Falls, and the Free Soilers nominated Judge Sylvester H. Thompson, of Hudson, both good temperance men. Then the Democrats held their convention, and nominated a regular whiskey-guzzler, Rolland O Hammond, Esq. of Akron...

The joint convention was accordingly called to meet in Union Hall, instead of the Court House as the others had been. The evening before the convention, Hammond, the Democratic candidate, called me out of the store, and pointing to the window of a certain Whig Lawyer in the second story of Union Block, said: “Do you see that light?” “Yes,” I answered. “Well”, said he, “a few chaps in that room are cooking your goose for you, and tomorrow you’ll find yourself done brown”. I laughingly told him that I should be all right, whether nominated or not, but that he would be the one that would be done brown on election day.