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 The Traverse Region, historical and descriptive,
 with illustrations of scenery and
 portraits and biographical sketches of some
 of its prominent men and pioneers.
 pub. H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1884


        [p. 151-152]

        CARLOS D. HAMPTON, M.D., was born in Ontario County, N.Y., April 1,
     1821.  In 1832 his parents, JAMES and PRUDENCE HAMPTON, removed with their
     large family to what was then considered the wilderness of the west, and
     settled three miles west of where the village of Tecumseh now stands.
     After securing the best education offered by the district schools and the
     Tecumseh University, he taught school and studied medicine, completing his
     medical education at the Cincinnati Medical College.  He began the practice
     of his profession at West Unity, Ohio, in 1845, and soon after removed to
     Medina, where he entered into partnership with DR. DAVID BROWN.  This part-
     nership proved so satisfactory that the following year he formed another,
     this time for life, with MISS CORNELIA C. DROWN, oldest daughter of APPOLOS
     DROWN, one of the earliest pioneers of Lenawee County, and the first
     militia captain in the state of Michigan.  In the fall of 1858, DR.
     HAMPTON's health had become so impaired by the demands of his large prac-
     tice that he decided upon a change of climate, and moved to Hunt County,
     Texas, where he purchased a tract of land, and went into the business of
     stock-raising.  When the secession of Texas was being discussed, he took an
     active part, and at the peril of his life, stumped the northern part of the
     state in a vain attempt to prevent his adopted state from taking that fatal
     step.  This action made him a marked man with the secessionists, and after
     hostilities began they made several attempts upon his life.  Finally,
     yielding to the solicitations of anxious friends, he left Texas, and under
     pretense of going to join the rebel army, he at last succeeded, after
     numerous narrow escapes, in getting through to the Union lines, where he
     enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry.  In October, 1862, ten months after
     her husband left, MRS. HAMPTON decided, against the earnest protests of
     friends, who thought it impossible for her to get north, to try and make
     her escape from Dixie.  Shrewdly deceiving the suspicious rebels as to her
     real intentions, she disposed of some of their stock and household goods,
     and with her three boys, aged respectively fourteen, ten and six, started
     to drive 700 miles through a country devastated by war, and infested with
     bands of bushwhackers and guerrilas.  After a thrilling experience she at
     last found protection under the old flag at Memphis, and was soon among her
     friends in Michigan, where the first information as to her husband's where-
     abouts was received.  Resigning his position, he returned and settled with
     his family at Hudson, where he enlisted as surgeon of the new Fourth Michi-
     gan Infantry, in the summer of 1864.  After his regiment was finally
     mustered out, he removed to Muir, where he resided until the spring of 1875
     when he became a pioneer in the village of Little Traverse.  When the town
     was incorporated as Harbor Springs, he was elected village president, and
     for several years has been county superintendent of the poor.

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