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Robert Reid Hemphill, 2nd of four sons born to Rev. William R. and Hannah Hemphill, in Abbeville, South Carolina on May 3rd 1840. He graduated with first honors at Erskine College, in 1859. When the war started, he enlisted June 8, 1861 at Richmond, in the Seventh South Carolina Volunteers, as a private. First acting as orderly for General M. L. Bonham, deceased, at the first battle of Manassas. June 25, 1862, he was transferred to 1st South Carolina Infantry, known as Orr's Rifles (serving along side his older brother, John Lind Hemphill) and was made sergeant major, in 1864. In that rank, he served in most of the battles in Virginia, until the end of the war at Appomattox on April 9th 1865. After the war, Robert Hemphill married Miss Eugenia Cornelia Brewton on April 6, 1870. He was a member of the House of Representatives, from 1870, to 1880, and from 1884 to 1886. In that year he was elected to the S.C. State Senate and served until 1894. He was also elected clerk of the Senate. Member of the S.C. Constitutional Convention, of 1895. Appointed a member of the Legislative committee to investigate charitable and penal institutions— a part of the great fraud committee. Chairman of committee on education in Senate and a trustee of Winthrop College, when founded. Robert Hemphill represented the State of South Carolina at the funeral of Jefferson Davis, in New Orleans. Later he delivered an address before National American Woman's Suffrage Association in Atlanta, Georgia, 1895 and introduced a bill into the S.C. Senate to change the constitution in order that women might be allowed to vote. For many years, he was editor of the 'Abbeville Medium.' Robert Reid Hemphill departed this life on December 28th 1908 in Abbeville; where he was buried at Melrose Cemetery.
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