Editing Hannibal Hamlin (section)

==Early life==

[[File:Younger Hannibal Hamlin.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Hamlin {{Circa|late 1840s}}]]
Hamlin was born to Cyrus Hamlin and his wife Anna (née Livermore) in [[Paris, Maine|Paris]] (now in [[Maine]], then a part of [[Massachusetts]]). He was a descendant in the sixth generation of English colonist James Hamlin, who had settled in [[Barnstable, Massachusetts|Barnstable]], part of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1639.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Andrews|first=H. Franklin|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008726028|title=The Hamlin family; a genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable, Massachusetts, eldest son of James Hamlin, the immigrant, who came from London, England, and settled in Barnstable, 1639. 1639-1902|date=1902|publisher=The author|location=Exira, Ia.|pages=5}}</ref> He was a grandnephew of U.S. Senator [[Samuel Livermore]] II<ref name="lifeandtimes">{{cite book |last=Hamlin |first=Charles Eugene|date=1899|title=The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin by his Grandson Charles Eugene Hamlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBFCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher=Riverside Press|pages=2, 12|isbn=978-0722291283}}</ref> of New Hampshire.

According to folklore, Hamlin's life was saved when he was an infant by a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[medicine man|medicine woman]] named [[Molly Ockett]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Hannibal Hamlin · Museums of the Bethel Historical Society - Online Collections & Catalog|url=https://bethelhistorical.org/catalog/exhibits/show/mollyockett/item/61|access-date=2021-10-09|website=bethelhistorical.org}}</ref> Hamlin was gravely ill and Ockett prescribed that he be given warm cow's milk, after which he recovered.<ref name=":0" />

Hamlin attended the district schools and [[Hebron Academy]] and later managed his father's farm. From 1827 to 1830 he published the ''Oxford Jeffersonian'' newspaper in partnership with [[Horatio King]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Waterman|first=Charles E.|date=August 1, 1891|title=The Birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA731|journal=[[The New England Magazine]]|volume=4|issue=6|location=Boston, MA|page=731}}</ref>

He studied law with the firm headed by [[Samuel Fessenden]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Hamlin|first=Charles Eugene|date=1899|title=The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBFCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA41|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|publisher=Riverside Press|page=41|isbn=978-0722291283}}</ref> was admitted to the bar in 1833, and began practicing in [[Hampden, Maine]], where he lived until 1848.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000121|title=Hamlin, Hannibal – Biographical Information|access-date=2018-08-06|publisher=US Congress}}
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